The Pilgrimage
One hundred bookshops, one life — of 100
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Europe 0/38 Barter Books Alnwick, United Kingdom Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum Amsterdam, Netherlands La Central del Raval Barcelona, Spain Libreria Palazzo Roberti Bassano del Grappa, Italy Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus Berlin, Germany Librairie Mollat Bordeaux, France Libraires Tropismes Brussels, Belgium Cărturești Carusel Bucharest, Romania Írók Boltja Budapest, Hungary Scarthin Books Cromford, United Kingdom Hodges Figgis Dublin, Ireland Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom Richard Booth's Bookshop Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom Akateeminen Kirjakauppa Helsinki, Finland Leakey’s Bookshop Inverness, United Kingdom Massolit Books & Café Kraków, Poland Livraria Bertrand Lisbon, Portugal Livraria Ler Devagar Lisbon, Portugal Livraria do Simão Lisbon, Portugal Daunt Books Marylebone London, United Kingdom Hatchards London, United Kingdom Word on the Water London, United Kingdom Le Bal des Ardents Lyon, France Boekhandel Dominicanen Maastricht, Netherlands Libreria Bocca Milan, Italy Tronsmo Oslo, Norway Blackwell's Oxford, United Kingdom Shakespeare and Company Paris, France Librairie Galignani Paris, France Librairie Delamain Paris, France Livraria Lello Porto, Portugal Shakespeare and Sons (Shakespeare a synové) Prague, Czech Republic Bókin Reykjavík, Iceland Atlantis Books Santorini, Greece Rahva Raamat Viru Keskus Tallinn, Estonia Libreria Antiquaria Umberto Saba Trieste, Italy Libreria Acqua Alta Venice, Italy The Bookshop Wigtown, United Kingdom Americas 0/32 Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar Asheville, United States BookPeople Austin, United States First Light Books Austin, United States The Painted Porch Bookshop Bastrop, United States Wilborada 1047 Bogotá, Colombia Brattle Book Shop Boston, United States El Ateneo Grand Splendid Buenos Aires, Argentina Librería de Ávila Buenos Aires, Argentina Eterna Cadencia Buenos Aires, Argentina John K. King Used & Rare Books Detroit, United States Librería Sophos Guatemala City, Guatemala Prairie Lights Iowa City, USA The Last Bookstore Los Angeles, United States Librería Rosario Castellanos Mexico City, Mexico Cafebrería El Péndulo (Polanco) Mexico City, Mexico Montague Bookmill Montague, United States Feltrinelli Montevideo Montevideo, Uruguay Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Montreal, Canada Parnassus Books Nashville, United States Faulkner House Books New Orleans, United States Albertine New York, United States Rizzoli Bookstore New York, United States Strand Bookstore New York, United States Bart’s Books Ojai, United States Square Books Oxford, United States Powell's City of Books Portland, United States Profética, Casa de la Lectura Puebla, Mexico Livraria Leonardo da Vinci Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Livraria da Travessa (Ipanema) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil City Lights Booksellers & Publishers San Francisco, United States Librería Laberinto San Juan, Puerto Rico Munro’s Books Victoria, Canada Asia 0/20 Books@Cafe Amman, Jordan Open House at Central Embassy Bangkok, Thailand PAGEONE Beijing Fun 北京坊店 Beijing, China Blossom Book House Bengaluru, India Dujiangyan Zhongshuge 都江堰钟书阁 Dujiangyan, China Minoa Akaretler Istanbul, Turkey Pilgrims Book House Kathmandu, Nepal Keibunsha Ichijoji 恵文社一乗寺店 Kyoto, Japan Kitab Khana किताब खाना Mumbai, India Librairie Avant-Garde (Wutaishan) 先锋书店五台山总店 Nanjing, China Bahrisons Booksellers New Delhi, India Kyobo Book Centre Gwanghwamun 교보문고 광화문점 Seoul, South Korea Sinan Books 思南书局 Shanghai, China Littered with Books Singapore, Singapore Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street Taguig, Philippines eslite spectrum Songyan 誠品生活松菸店 Taipei, Taiwan Tehran Book Garden باغ کتاب تهران Tehran, Iran Daikanyama Tsutaya Books 代官山 蔦屋書店 Tokyo, Japan Morioka Shoten Ginza 森岡書店 銀座店 Tokyo, Japan Kitazawa Bookstore 北澤書店 Tokyo, Japan Africa 0/7 Diwan Bookstore ديوان Cairo, Egypt The Book Lounge Cape Town, South Africa Clarke's Bookshop Cape Town, South Africa Bridge Books Johannesburg, South Africa Librairie Ikirezi Kigali, Rwanda The Jazzhole Lagos, Nigeria Librairie des Colonnes Tangier, Morocco Oceania 0/3 Readings Carlton Melbourne, Australia Gleebooks Sydney, Australia Unity Books Wellington Wellington, New Zealand Every shop here was checked against a live source in August 2026 — several famous ones had quietly closed, been renamed, or moved, and those are recorded rather than listed. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain).