Book shopping in Barcelona
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Norma Comics
With a huge range of comics, both Spanish and international, this is Spain’s biggest dealer – everything from Tintin to some of the weirdest sci-fi and sex comics can be found here. Also on show are armies of model super heroes and other characters produced by fevered imaginations. Kids from nine to 99 can be seen snapping up items to add to their collections.
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Llibreria & Informació Cultural de la Generalitat de Catalunya
This is a good first stop for books and pamphlets on all things Catalan, ranging from huge coffee-table tomes on all facets of Catalan art and architecture through to turgid tracts on Catalan law. You can skip the latter, but the former are exquisite. The shop stocks very little in English (and even less in Spanish).
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Come in
English-teachers, those thirsting for the latest thrillers in English and learners of Shakespeare’s tongue will all find something to awaken their curiosity in here, one of the city’s main English-language bookshops. There are even a few odds and ends in other languages.
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Casa del Llibre
With branches elsewhere in Spain, the ‘Home of the Book’ is a well-stocked general bookshop with reasonable sections devoted to literature in English, French and other languages. The website is a good place to look for Spanish literature if the shop is a walk too far.
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Quera
Crammed into a tiny bookshop is a treasure trove of travel material, mostly on Catalonia and the Pyrenees. It specialises in maps and guides, including a host of stuff for walking, and has been in business since 1916.
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Hibernian
The biggest secondhand English bookshop in Barcelona stocks thousands of titles covering all sorts of subjects, from cookery to children’s classics.
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Altaïr
This is an excellent travel bookshop with maps, guides and travel literature. There’s a travellers’ noticeboard and travel agency in here, too.
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Laie
Has novels and books on architecture, art and film, in English and French. Also has a fine cafe upstairs.
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Antinous
For a leisurely browse and coffee, this is about the best gay bookshop in town.
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