Bookstores in Annecy
Bookstores reward the browsers. Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has 15 mapped right now. That's 15 bookshops mapped around Annecy, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Annecy (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include La Procure d'Étincelles and Culture Trock, plus Bd Fugue Café. If a bookshop's missing from Annecy's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Annecy bookstore lineup
15 in Annecy, plus 65 more around Annecy below:
La Procure d'Étincelles
Bookstore0.2 km from Annecy
La Procure d'Étincelles is Bookstore. La Procure d'Étincelles also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 09:30-12:30,13:30-19:00; Mo 14:00-19:00; Sa 09:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Tu-Fr 09:30-12:30,13:30-19:00; Mo 14:00-19:00; Sa 09:30-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 45 25 95
Culture Trock
Bookstore0.3 km from Annecy
Culture Trock — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Culture Trock: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00
Bd Fugue Café
Bookstore0.3 km from Annecy
Bd Fugue Café is Bookstore on 1 Rue Jean Jaurès, Annecy. Bd Fugue Café also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
1 Rue Jean Jaurès, Annecy, 74000
L'île aux livres
Bookstore0.4 km from Annecy
L'île aux livres is Bookstore on Square de l'Évéché, Annecy. L'île aux livres also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 09:30-12:30,14:30-19:00; Sa 10:00-12:30,14:30-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
Square de l'Évéché, Annecy, 74000
Hours: Tu-Fr 09:30-12:30,14:30-19:00; Sa 10:00-12:30,14:30-19:00
Antiope
Bookstore0.4 km from Annecy
Antiope is Bookstore. Antiope also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Joie de livre
Bookstore0.5 km from Annecy
Joie de livre — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Joie de livre: the map lists its hours as Tu-Th 09:30-12:30,13:30-19:00; Fr-Sa 09:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu-Th 09:30-12:30,13:30-19:00; Fr-Sa 09:30-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 11 24 71
Decitre
Bookstore0.5 km from Annecy
Decitre is Bookstore on 18 Rue Sommeiller, Annecy. Decitre also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
18 Rue Sommeiller, Annecy, 74000
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 33 00 00
La librairie imaginaire
Bookstore0.5 km from Annecy
La librairie imaginaire is Bookstore on 4 bis Rue de la Poste, Annecy. La librairie imaginaire also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 14:00-19:00; Tu-Sa 09:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
4 bis Rue de la Poste, Annecy, 74000
Hours: Mo 14:00-19:00; Tu-Sa 09:00-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 51 75 17
Rue de Verneuil
Bookstore0.6 km from Annecy
Rue de Verneuil is Bookstore on Faubourg des Balmettes, Annecy. Rue de Verneuil also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-12:30,14:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Faubourg des Balmettes, Annecy, 74000
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-12:30,14:30-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 66 36 05
Momie Annecy Romance & Fantasy
Bookstore0.7 km from AnnecyRun by Momie
Run by Momie, Momie Annecy Romance & Fantasy is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Momie Annecy Romance & Fantasy: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00
Phone: +33 9 50 56 65 78
9e Quai BD Manga
Bookstore0.8 km from Annecy
9e Quai BD Manga — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 9e Quai BD Manga: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00
Phone: +33450510904
9e Quai BD Comics Jeunesse
Bookstore0.8 km from Annecy
9e Quai BD Comics Jeunesse — Bookstore, found on 75 Rue Carnot in Annecy. Also worth knowing about 9e Quai BD Comics Jeunesse: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
75 Rue Carnot, Annecy, 74000
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 51 09 04
Eveils & Reves - Librairie Sprituelle
Bookstore0.9 km from Annecy
Eveils & Reves - Librairie Sprituelle — Bookstore.
Cultura
Bookstore5.4 km from Annecy
Cultura — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Cultura: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-20:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-20:00
Librairie du Lac
Bookstore7.8 km from Annecy
Librairie du Lac is Bookstore on Route de l'Église, Saint-Jorioz.
Route de l'Église, Saint-Jorioz, 74410
What the map tells us about bookstores in Annecy
11 of the 15 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
10 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
Most of the bookstores in Annecy list a phone number. Useful for checking whether a specific title is in stock before you visit.
The Annecy bookstore crawl
The efficient Annecy bookstore crawl strings these together: La Procure d'Étincelles, Culture Trock, Bd Fugue Café on 1 Rue Jean Jaurès, L'île aux livres on Square de l'Évéché, Antiope, Joie de livre, Decitre on 18 Rue Sommeiller, and La librairie imaginaire on 4 bis Rue de la Poste — 15 stops, one logical order. 7 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Annecy
A few things worth knowing before you work through Annecy's bookstores:
- Check the events board at La Procure d'Étincelles. Book clubs, writing groups, story times — bookshops are community centres that happen to sell books.
- Don't judge by the window display at Culture Trock. The front table is marketing. The back shelves are the shop's real taste. Walk the whole floor.
- Look for local history. The local-interest shelf tells you what a town thinks of itself. Great for visitors, better for new residents.
- Support the shop's own publishing. Some independents publish local authors or print their own anthologies. Buying them funds the ecosystem directly.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Annecy — 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 Annecy can take a while to appear. The 15 above are only as current as the community map. A bookstore that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
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 15 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.
Worth the trip: more bookstores around Annecy
65 more within about 40 km of Annecy — here are the 15 nearest:
Les Mots en Cavale
Bookstore14.8 km from Annecy
Les Mots en Cavale — Bookstore, found on 9 Rue Charles de Gaulle in Rumilly. Also worth knowing about Les Mots en Cavale: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 08:30-12:30,14:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
9 Rue Charles de Gaulle, Rumilly, 74150
Hours: Mo-Sa 08:30-12:30,14:00-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 01 49 81
La Musique des Mots
Bookstore15.1 km from Annecy
La Musique des Mots is Bookstore on 49 Place de la Mairie. La Musique des Mots also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-12:30,14:00-18:30; Sa 09:30-12:30,14:00-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
49 Place de la Mairie
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-12:30,14:00-18:30; Sa 09:30-12:30,14:00-18:00
Phone: +33 4 50 11 41 34
Librairie des Aravis
Bookstore15.1 km from Annecy
Librairie des Aravis is Bookstore on 11 Place Avet, Thônes. Librairie des Aravis also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 08:30-12:30,14:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
11 Place Avet, Thônes, 74230
Hours: Tu-Sa 08:30-12:30,14:30-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 02 17 90
La Lanterne qui Rugit
Bookstore20.6 km from Annecy
La Lanterne qui Rugit — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about La Lanterne qui Rugit: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 09:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Tu-Sa 09:00-19:00
Phone: +33 4 79 88 10 99
La livrerie
Bookstore22.0 km from Annecy
La livrerie — Bookstore, found on 17 Place de l'Ancienne École in Saint-Jean-de-Sixt. Also worth knowing about La livrerie: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-12:30,15:00-18:30; Su 10:00-13:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
17 Place de l'Ancienne École, Saint-Jean-de-Sixt, 74450
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-12:30,15:00-18:30; Su 10:00-13:00
Phone: +33450199890
Le Carrousel du Livre
Used bookstore22.2 km from Annecy
Le Carrousel du Livre is Used bookstore.
Librairie Histoires Sans Fin
Bookstore23.4 km from AnnecyRun by MATMORA
Librairie Histoires Sans Fin is Bookstore run by MATMORA on 47 Rue de Silence, La Roche-sur-Foron. Librairie Histoires Sans Fin also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 09:00-12:30,14:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
47 Rue de Silence, La Roche-sur-Foron, 74800
Hours: Tu-Sa 09:00-12:30,14:00-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 25 41 91
Bulles de pions
Bookstore27.2 km from Annecy
Bulles de pions — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Bulles de pions: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 09:30-12:30,14:00-18:30.
Hours: Tu-Sa 09:30-12:30,14:00-18:30
Un jour, une veille
Bookstore27.4 km from Annecy
Un jour, une veille is Bookstore.
Librairie des Danaïdes
Bookstore29.0 km from Annecy
Librairie des Danaïdes is Bookstore on 9 Rue de Chambéry, Aix-les-Bains. Librairie des Danaïdes also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 09:00-12:30,14:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
9 Rue de Chambéry, Aix-les-Bains, 73100
Hours: Tu-Sa 09:00-12:30,14:00-19:00
Phone: +33 4 79 61 10 41
Librairie lettres libres
Bookstore29.3 km from Annecy
Librairie lettres libres — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Librairie lettres libres: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 09:00-12:30,14:30-19:00; Sa 09:30-12:30,14:30-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Tu-Fr 09:00-12:30,14:30-19:00; Sa 09:30-12:30,14:30-19:00
Phone: +33 4 50 97 34 19
Epsilon SA
Bookstore30.9 km from Annecy
Epsilon SA — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Epsilon SA: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
1227
Phone: +41223430100
Des Livres et Vous
Bookstore31.3 km from Annecy
Des Livres et Vous — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Des Livres et Vous: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Phone: +41223015567
La Librerit
Bookstore31.7 km from Annecy
La Librerit — Bookstore on 1bis Place du Marché. Also worth knowing about La Librerit: the map lists its hours as Mo 14:00-18:30; Tu-Fr 10:00-18:30; Sa 09:30-18:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1bis Place du Marché
Hours: Mo 14:00-18:30; Tu-Fr 10:00-18:30; Sa 09:30-18:00
Phone: +41 22 343 97 71
la ligne
Bookstore31.7 km from Annecy
la ligne — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about la ligne: the map lists its hours as Mo 15:00-18:45; Tu-Fr 10:15-18:45; Sa 10:15-17:30.
Hours: Mo 15:00-18:45; Tu-Fr 10:15-18:45; Sa 10:15-17:30
Bookstore listings for Annecy: 15 in Annecy and 65 more nearby 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.