Bookstores in Beijing
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Beijing, Beijing gives you 93 to judge by. That's 93 bookshops mapped around Beijing, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Beijing (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Under Renovation (used to be Bookworm) and 独峰书院, plus 新华书店. If a bookshop's missing from Beijing's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Beijing bookstore lineup
93 mapped within about 40 km — showing 60:
Under Renovation (used to be Bookworm)
Bookstore
Under Renovation (used to be Bookworm) — Bookstore.
独峰书院
Bookstore
独峰书院 is Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
北京外文书店
Bookstore
北京外文书店 — Bookstore.
亚运村图书大厦
Bookstore
亚运村图书大厦 is Bookstore.
北京四慎书苑
Bookstore
北京四慎书苑 is Bookstore.
中关村图书大厦
Bookstore
中关村图书大厦 — Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
Page One
Bookstore
Page One is Bookstore.
123书店
Bookstore
123书店 — Bookstore, found on 12 天安门西 in 西城区.
12 天安门西, 西城区
二手书店
Bookstore
二手书店 — Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
传习堂地下书城
Bookstore
传习堂地下书城 is Bookstore.
荣宝斋
Bookstore
荣宝斋 — Bookstore on 19-6 琉璃厂. Also worth knowing about 荣宝斋: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-17:30.
19-6 琉璃厂, 100052
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-17:30
王府井新华书店
Bookstore
王府井新华书店 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 王府井新华书店: the map lists its hours as 09:00-21:30.
Hours: 09:00-21:30
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
模范书局
Bookstore
模范书局 — Bookstore.
book design shop
Bookstore
book design shop is Bookstore.
康文书店
Bookstore
康文书店 is Bookstore.
北京三联韬奋24小时书店海淀分店
Bookstore
北京三联韬奋24小时书店海淀分店 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 北京三联韬奋24小时书店海淀分店: the map lists its hours as 24/7.
Hours: 24/7
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
PAGEONE
Bookstore
PAGEONE — Bookstore.
上海三联书店
Bookstore
上海三联书店 is Bookstore.
建投书局
Bookstore
建投书局 is Bookstore.
言几又书店
Bookstore
言几又书店 is Bookstore.
Poliphony Comics
Bookstore
Poliphony Comics is Bookstore.
PAGEONE
Bookstore
PAGEONE — Bookstore.
南锣书店
Bookstore
南锣书店 — Bookstore.
多抓鱼二手书店
Bookstore
多抓鱼二手书店 — Bookstore.
钟书阁
Bookstore
钟书阁 is Bookstore.
西西弗书店
Bookstore
西西弗书店 is Bookstore.
校园书店
Bookstore
校园书店 — Bookstore.
明德书店
Bookstore
明德书店 is Bookstore.
正阳书局
Bookstore
正阳书局 is Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
戏剧书店
Bookstore
戏剧书店 — Bookstore.
雨丝书店(北大地店)
Bookstore
雨丝书店(北大地店) — Bookstore.
新华书店(北大地店)
Bookstore
新华书店(北大地店) — Bookstore.
妙峰书屋
Bookstore
妙峰书屋 — Bookstore.
库布里克书店咖啡
Bookstore
库布里克书店咖啡 — Bookstore.
邺架轩（阅读体验书店）
BookstoreRun by 清华大学，商务印书馆
邺架轩（阅读体验书店） is Bookstore run by 清华大学，商务印书馆. 邺架轩（阅读体验书店） also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 08:00-23:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 08:00-23:00
人文考古书店
Bookstore
人文考古书店 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about 人文考古书店: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-18:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-18:30
Phone: +86 10 6845 3918
国图书店
Bookstore
国图书店 — Bookstore.
全民畅读
Bookstore
全民畅读 is Bookstore.
旁观书社
Bookstore
旁观书社 is Bookstore. 旁观书社 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-19:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-19:00
知里知外书店
Bookstore
知里知外书店 — Bookstore.
西西弗书店
Bookstore
西西弗书店 is Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
春风在书店
Bookstore
春风在书店 — Bookstore.
中图外文书店
Bookstore
中图外文书店 — Bookstore.
首开书院城市记忆书房
Bookstore
首开书院城市记忆书房 is Bookstore. 首开书院城市记忆书房 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-21:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-21:00
金钥匙书店
Bookstore
金钥匙书店 is Bookstore.
北京湖边草书店
Bookstore
北京湖边草书店 — Bookstore.
西西弗书店
Bookstore
西西弗书店 is Bookstore. 西西弗书店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
新华书店
Bookstore
新华书店 — Bookstore.
米莱知识宇宙
Bookstore
米莱知识宇宙 is Bookstore. 米莱知识宇宙 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
又见书店
Bookstore
又见书店 is Bookstore.
潞澄教育书店
Bookstore
潞澄教育书店 is Bookstore. 潞澄教育书店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-21:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-21:00
What the map tells us about bookstores in Beijing
17 of the 93 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
The Beijing bookstore crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Under Renovation (used to be Bookworm), 独峰书院, 新华书店, 北京外文书店, 亚运村图书大厦, 北京四慎书苑, 中关村图书大厦, and 新华书店. That's 93 stops on the Beijing bookstore crawl. 85 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Beijing
The regulars' playbook for Beijing's bookshops:
- Come back seasonally at Under Renovation (used to be Bookworm). Stock turns over with the publishing seasons. The shop you browsed in spring is a different shop by autumn.
- Learn the remainders table at 独峰书院. Publisher overstocks sold cheap. Great for gift buying — new books at used prices.
- Ask for the out-of-print hunters. Some used shops will hunt down out-of-print titles for you. It takes patience, but the find is worth it.
- 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 Beijing — 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 Beijing can take a while to appear. The 93 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 93 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 Beijing: 93 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.