Book shopping in Prague
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Shakespeare & Sons
Though its shelves groan with a formidable range of literature in English, both new and second-hand, Shakes is more than a bookshop – it’s a congenial literary hangout, with a cosy café that regularly hosts poetry readings, author events and live jazz. Here you can buy magazines, such as the New York Review of Books, Harper’s and Atlantic Monthly, and settle down for a read over coffee and cakes.
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Globe Bookstore & Café
A popular hangout for book-loving expats, the Globe is a cosy English-language bookshop with an excellent cafe-bar in which to peruse your purchases. There’s a good range of new fiction and nonfiction, as well as a big selection of second-hand novels, newspapers, magazines and – a first for Prague – a dedicated gay, lesbian and transgender section with literature in English, German and Czech.
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Kanzelsberger
Housed in the tall, glass-fronted Lindt building at the foot of Wenceslas Square, Kanzelsberger has five floors of bookshelves, with a café on the 1st floor overlooking the square. You’ll probably want the top floor, where there’s a selection of books in English, German and French, plus hiking and city maps covering the whole of the Czech Republic.
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Palác Knih Neo Luxor
Palác Knih Neo Luxor is Prague’s biggest bookshop – head for the basement to find a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction in English, German, French and Russian, including Czech authors in translation. You’ll also find internet access (1Kč per minute), a café and a good selection of international newspapers and magazines.
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Anagram
An excellent English-language bookshop, Anagram offers a vast range of fiction and nonfiction, with an especially good selection on European history, philosophy, religion, art and travel, as well as Czech works in translation and children’s books. Seek out the remainders section for some bargain new books as well as second-hand offerings on various topics.
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Big Ben
Big Ben is a small but well-stocked English-language bookshop, with shelves devoted to Czech and European history, books on Prague, travel (including Lonely Planet guides), science fiction, children’s books, poetry and all the latest fiction bestsellers. There are also English-language newspapers and magazines at the counter.
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Kiwi
This small specialist travel bookshop stocks a huge range of maps covering not only the Czech Republic but also many other countries. It also has an extensive selection of Lonely Planet guidebooks.
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Shakespeare & Sons
This is a newer and smaller branch of the famous English-language second-hand bookshop of the same name in Vršovice.
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