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 superheroes 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 this, 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
Enter the world of travel in this extensive bookshop, which is a mecca for guidebooks, maps, travel literature and all sorts of other books likely to induce a severe case of itchy feet. It has a travellers’ notice board and, downstairs, a travel agent.
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Laie
Laie has novels and books on architecture, art and film in English, French, Spanish and Catalan. Better still, it has a great upstairs cafe where you can examine your latest purchases or browse through the newspapers provided for customers in true Central European style.
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Antinous
For a leisurely browse and coffee, this is about the best gay bookshop in town.
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