Bookstores in Dundee
Bookstores reward the browsers. Dundee, Scotland has 24 mapped right now. That's 24 bookshops mapped around Dundee, 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 Dundee (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include WHSmith and Waterstones, plus Cupar Books. If a bookshop's missing from Dundee's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Dundee bookstore lineup
24 mapped within about 40 km:
WHSmith
Bookstore
WHSmith is Bookstore on 90-92 South Street, St Andrews. WHSmith also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
90-92 South Street, St Andrews, KY16 9QD
Waterstones
Bookstore
Waterstones — Bookstore, found on 101-103 Market Street in St Andrews. Also worth knowing about Waterstones: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-17:30; Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 10:00-17:30; it has a website with more detail.
101-103 Market Street, St Andrews, KY16 9NX
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-17:30; Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 10:00-17:30
Cupar Books
Bookstore
Cupar Books is Bookstore.
Gospel Hall
Bookstore
Gospel Hall is Bookstore on Market Street, St Andrews.
Market Street, St Andrews
Waterstones
Bookstore
Waterstones — Bookstore, found on 35 Commercial Street in Dundee. Also worth knowing about Waterstones: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 10:00-17:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
35 Commercial Street, Dundee, DD1 3DG
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 10:00-17:30
Phone: +44 1382 200322
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Works: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 12:00-16:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 12:00-16:00
Blackwells
Bookstore
Blackwells is Bookstore.
Topping and Company
Bookstore
Topping and Company is Bookstore on Greyfriars Garden, St Andrews. Topping and Company also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:00-20:30.
Greyfriars Garden, St Andrews
Hours: Mo-Su 09:00-20:30
Waterstones
Bookstore
Waterstones — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Waterstones: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 11:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
Perth, PH1 5UX
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 11:00-17:00
Letham Book Shop
Bookstore
Letham Book Shop is Bookstore.
The Lighthouse
Bookstore
The Lighthouse is Bookstore.
Book Attic
Bookstore
Book Attic — Bookstore, found on 93 Perth Road in Dundee.
93 Perth Road, Dundee
Courtyard Books
Bookstore
Courtyard Books is Bookstore on 21 Lady Wynd, Cupar.
21 Lady Wynd, Cupar
Oxfam Books & Music
Bookstore
Oxfam Books & Music — Bookstore, found on 45 Reform Street in Dundee. Also worth knowing about Oxfam Books & Music: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00; Sa 09:30-17:30; Su 12:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
45 Reform Street, Dundee, DD1 1SL
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00; Sa 09:30-17:30; Su 12:00-16:00
Phone: +44 1382 229681
Bouquiniste
Bookstore
Bouquiniste — Bookstore, found on 31 Market Street in St Andrews. Also worth knowing about Bouquiniste: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 11:00-17:00; Su 13:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
31 Market Street, St Andrews, KY16 9NS
Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-17:00; Su 13:00-17:00
Barnabas Christian Bookshop
Bookstore
Barnabas Christian Bookshop is Bookstore.
River Thoughtful
Bookstore
River Thoughtful — Bookstore.
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Works: it has a website with more detail.
Dundee
The Works
Bookstore
The Works — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about The Works: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 11:00-17:00; it has a website with more detail.
Perth, PH1 5UX
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su 11:00-17:00
Adventure Into Books
Bookstore
Adventure Into Books — Bookstore, found on 12 Allan Street in Blairgowrie. Also worth knowing about Adventure Into Books: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00.
12 Allan Street, Blairgowrie, PH10 6AD
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00
The Bookhouse
Bookstore
The Bookhouse — Bookstore.
The Birnam Reader
BookstoreRun by Frazier
Run by Frazier, The Birnam Reader is Bookstore, found on Station Road in Dunkeld. Also worth knowing about The Birnam Reader: the map lists its hours as Mo-Tu closed, We-Fr 12:00-18:00, Sa-Su 11:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
Station Road, Dunkeld, PH8 0DS
Hours: Mo-Tu closed, We-Fr 12:00-18:00, Sa-Su 11:00-19:00
Birnam CD & DVD Duplication
Bookstore
Birnam CD & DVD Duplication is Bookstore on Station Road.
Station Road, PH8 0DS
TG Jones
Bookstore
TG Jones — Bookstore, found on 61-63 Murraygate in Dundee. Also worth knowing about TG Jones: it has a website with more detail.
61-63 Murraygate, Dundee, DD1 2EA
What the map tells us about bookstores in Dundee
10 of the 24 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
11 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on Station Road, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
The Dundee bookstore crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: WHSmith on 90-92 South Street, Waterstones on 101-103 Market Street, Cupar Books, Gospel Hall on Market Street, Waterstones on 35 Commercial Street, The Works, Blackwells, and Topping and Company on Greyfriars Garden. That's 24 stops on the Dundee bookstore crawl. 16 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Dundee
A few things worth knowing before you work through Dundee's bookstores:
- Check the staff picks shelf first at WHSmith. It's the fastest read of a shop's personality. If the picks excite you, the rest of the store will too.
- Buy the signed copy at Waterstones. Signed stock costs the same as unsigned and only goes up in charm. Ask at the till; shops often have signed copies behind the counter.
- Don't judge by the window display. The front table is marketing. The back shelves are the shop's real taste. Walk the whole floor.
- Check the events board. Book clubs, writing groups, story times — bookshops are community centres that happen to sell books.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Dundee — 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 Dundee can take a while to appear. The 24 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 24 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 Dundee: 24 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.