Moscow Shopping

  1. Anglia British Bookshop

    One of Moscow's oldest English-language bookstores is now in a new convenient location off of Tverskaya ulitsa, it carries the capital's best selection of books in English, including contemporary literature and reference books. If you are not up for Anna Karenina in Russian, this is also a good place to pick up your English translation. Sponsors a used-book sale on Sunday afternoons.

    It also some antique Lonely Planet guides.

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  2. Biblio-Globus

    Moscow's favourite bookshop is huge, with lots of reference and souvenir books on language, art and history, and a good selection of maps and travel guides. This place is usually packed, not only with books but also with people.

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  3. Bookberry

    A slick new chain that includes not only an enormous bookstore, but also a café, a la Barnes & Noble. Bookberry undoubtedly carries the city's best selection of guidebooks and maps, not to mention a host of magazines, reference books and foreign language literature.

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  4. House Of Foreign Books

    A small shop specialising in foreign titles, including a decent selection of guidebooks.

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  5. Moskovsky Dom Knigi

    Moscow's main bookshop, excellent but crowded, stocks books on pretty much anything, including a very decent selection of English-language novels.

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  7. Shakespeare & Co

    This tiny store occupies cramped quarters in the basement of an apartment block, giving it an old-school, underground, used-bookstore feel. It is, in fact, the only store with a decent selection of used books, offering a welcome change to the standard English classics that most Russian bookstores carry.

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