Bookstores in Adelaide
Adelaide, SA has 25 bookstores on the map. That's 25 bookshops mapped around Adelaide, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Give yourself an hour minimum — bookshops are the one errand that always takes longer than planned.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Adelaide (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Unibooks Flinders and Matilda, plus Curio Books. If a bookshop's missing from Adelaide's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Adelaide bookstore lineup
25 mapped within about 40 km:
Unibooks Flinders
Bookstore
Unibooks Flinders — Bookstore.
Matilda
Bookstore
Matilda — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Matilda: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-17:30; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su 11:00-17:00.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-17:30; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su 11:00-17:00
Curio Books
Bookstore
Curio Books is Bookstore.
New Morning Books
Bookstore
New Morning Books — Bookstore on 155 Frome Street. Also worth knowing about New Morning Books: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 09:30-16:00; Sa 09:30-15:00.
155 Frome Street, 5000
Hours: Tu-Fr 09:30-16:00; Sa 09:30-15:00
Dymocks
Bookstore
Dymocks is Bookstore.
Harry Hartog
Bookstore
Harry Hartog — Bookstore.
Gamma Rays Comics
Bookstore
Gamma Rays Comics — Bookstore on 15 Vaughan Place. Also worth knowing about Gamma Rays Comics: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-17:00; Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 11:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
15 Vaughan Place, 5000
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-17:00; Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 11:00-16:00
Phone: +61 8 7001 6128
East Avenue Books
Bookstore
East Avenue Books is Bookstore. East Avenue Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-15:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-15:00
Goodwood Books
Bookstore
Goodwood Books — Bookstore on 145 Goodwood Road. Also worth knowing about Goodwood Books: it has a website with more detail.
145 Goodwood Road
Book Exchange
Bookstore
Book Exchange is Bookstore on O G Road.
O G Road, 5087
Dymocks
Bookstore
Dymocks is Bookstore.
Gawler Books
Bookstore
Gawler Books is Bookstore on 7 Main North Road. Gawler Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as We 10:00-12:00; Sa 10:00-12:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
7 Main North Road
Hours: We 10:00-12:00; Sa 10:00-12:00
Phone: +61 404 877 888
New Dimensions TS Bookshop
BookstoreRun by Adelaide Theosophical Society
New Dimensions TS Bookshop is Bookstore run by Adelaide Theosophical Society on 310 South Terrace. New Dimensions TS Bookshop also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 12:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
310 South Terrace
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 12:00-16:00
Phone: +61 2 8223 4877
QBD Books
Bookstore
QBD Books — Bookstore.
Orchard Bookshop
Bookstore
Orchard Bookshop — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Orchard Bookshop: the map lists its hours as Mo off; Tu 08:30-16:30; We-Th 10:00-17:30; Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-15:00; Su off; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo off; Tu 08:30-16:30; We-Th 10:00-17:30; Fr 10:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-15:00; Su off
QBD Books
Bookstore
QBD Books — Bookstore on 976 North East Road. Also worth knowing about QBD Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-We,Fr 09:00-17:30; Th 09:00-21:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
976 North East Road, 5092
Hours: Mo-We,Fr 09:00-17:30; Th 09:00-21:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su 10:00-17:00
Phone: +61 8 7160 0017
Pink Shorts Press
Bookstore
Pink Shorts Press is Bookstore. Pink Shorts Press also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Letterpress Books
Bookstore
Letterpress Books — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Letterpress Books: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Phone: +61 419 821 626
Koorong
Bookstore
Koorong is Bookstore. Koorong also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su off
Phone: +61 8 8239 6777
Page & Turner
Bookstore
Page & Turner is Bookstore. Page & Turner also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 11:00-15:00; Tu-Th,Sa 09:30-17:00; Fr 09:30-21:00; Su 11:00-17:00.
Hours: Mo 11:00-15:00; Tu-Th,Sa 09:30-17:00; Fr 09:30-21:00; Su 11:00-17:00
O'Connell's Bookshop
Bookstore
O'Connell's Bookshop — Bookstore on 19 Bank Street.
19 Bank Street, 5000
Anthroposophic Book Centre
Bookstore
Anthroposophic Book Centre is Bookstore on 96 Halifax Street. Anthroposophic Book Centre also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
96 Halifax Street
Phone: +61 8 8223 1841
The Hut Bookshed
Bookstore
The Hut Bookshed — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Hut Bookshed: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-16:00; Su[4] 10:00-15:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-16:00; Su[4] 10:00-15:00
Phone: +61 8 8339 2005
Glenside Lions Bookmart
Bookstore
Glenside Lions Bookmart — Bookstore on Kennaway Street.
Kennaway Street
Dillons
Bookstore
Dillons — Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Adelaide
11 of the 25 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
8 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
The Adelaide bookstore crawl
The efficient Adelaide bookstore crawl strings these together: Unibooks Flinders, Matilda, Curio Books, New Morning Books on 155 Frome Street, Dymocks, Harry Hartog, Gamma Rays Comics on 15 Vaughan Place, and East Avenue Books — 25 stops, one logical order. 17 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Adelaide
The regulars' playbook for Adelaide's bookshops:
- Learn your editions at Unibooks Flinders. A first edition, first printing is the collectible one. Booksellers will show you how to check the copyright page.
- Don't skip the small press section at Matilda. The weird, wonderful stuff lives here. Small presses take the risks the big publishers won't.
- Check for a café corner. A bookshop with coffee is a trap in the best way. Plan accordingly; you won't be leaving soon.
- Poetry lives in bookshops. Poetry barely exists online as a browsing experience. The poetry shelf in a real shop is a different world.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Adelaide — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Adelaide can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 25, or a bookstore we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 25 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Bookstore listings for Adelaide: 25 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.