Bookstores in Edmundston
Edmundston, NB has 2 bookstores on the map. That's 2 bookshops mapped around Edmundston, 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 Edmundston (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Librairie Matulu and Bogan Books. If a bookshop's missing from Edmundston's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Edmundston bookstore lineup
2 mapped within about 40 km:
Librairie Matulu
Bookstore
Librairie Matulu is Bookstore on 114 Rue De L' Église. Librairie Matulu also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
114 Rue De L' Église
Phone: +1-506-736-6277
Bogan Books
Bookstore
Bogan Books — Bookstore, found on 130 West Main Street in Fort Kent. Also worth knowing about Bogan Books: the map lists its hours as Mo 12:00-16:00; Tu-Th 11:00-17:30; Fr 11:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
130 West Main Street, Fort Kent, 04743
Hours: Mo 12:00-16:00; Tu-Th 11:00-17:30; Fr 11:00-19:00; Sa 10:00-16:00
Phone: +1-207-231-5075

What the map tells us about bookstores in Edmundston
1 of the 2 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
The two mapped bookstores sit on 114 Rue De L' Église and 130 West Main Street — close enough to make a single outing of it.
The Edmundston bookstore crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Librairie Matulu on 114 Rue De L' Église and Bogan Books on 130 West Main Street. That's 2 stops on the Edmundston bookstore crawl.
Bookstore tips for Edmundston
Browsing in Edmundston? A little strategy helps:
- Look for local history at Librairie Matulu. The local-interest shelf tells you what a town thinks of itself. Great for visitors, better for new residents.
- Read the first page in the shop at Bogan Books. The first-page test never lies. If it doesn't grab you standing there, it won't grab you at home.
- Gift buying? Ask for wrapping. Many independents wrap beautifully and free. It beats a gift bag every time.
- Check the bargain carts outside. Sidewalk carts are the shop's clearance rack. A dollar a book, and the turnover is fast.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Edmundston — 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 Edmundston can take a while to appear. The 2 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 2 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 Edmundston: 2 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.