Book shopping in Istanbul
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İstanbul Kitapçısı
This bookshop is run by the municipality and as a consequence its prices are very reasonable. It stocks some English-language books about İstanbul, and a good range of maps, CDs, postcards and prints.
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Pandora
This long-standing independent bookshop has a more recent store on the opposite side of the street that is dedicated solely to English-language books. It has great crime fiction and travel sections, as well as loads of books about Turkey.
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Homer Kitabevi
Come here for an unrivalled range of Turkish fiction, plus an enviable collection of nonfiction covering everything from Sufism and Islam to Kurdish and Armenian issues. It stocks children’s books too.
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Greenhouse Bookshop Cafe
This friendly bookshop stocks the city's best range of books in English about İstanbul and Turkey. There's a huge kids section and a decent fiction section. It's where most of the expats in the know buy their reading matter.
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Galeri Kayseri
These twin shops near the Sultanahmet tram stop offer a modest range of English-language fiction and a more impressive selection of books about İstanbul and Turkey. The second, smaller, shop is on the opposite side of the road half a block closer to Aya Sofya.
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Robinson Crusoe
There are few more pleasant fates than being marooned here for an hour or so. With its classy decor, good magazine selection and wide range of English-language novels and books about İstanbul, it's one of the best bookshops in the city. There's another branch specialising in art books on the ground floor of SALT Beyoğlu.
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Sahaflar Çarşısı
The Sahaflar Çarşısı has operated as a book and paper market since Byzantine times. At the centre of its shady courtyard is a bust of İbrahim Müteferrika (1674–1745), who printed the first book in Turkey in 1732.
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