Bookstores in Guangzhou
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Guangzhou, Guangdong gives you 20 to judge by. That's 20 bookshops mapped around Guangzhou, 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 Guangzhou (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 科技书店 and 儿童书店, plus 博尔赫斯书店. If a bookshop's missing from Guangzhou's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Guangzhou bookstore lineup
20 in Guangzhou, plus 17 more around Guangzhou below:
科技书店
Bookstore0.1 km from Guangzhou
科技书店 — Bookstore.
儿童书店
Bookstore0.1 km from Guangzhou
儿童书店 is Bookstore.
博尔赫斯书店
Used bookstore0.2 km from Guangzhou
博尔赫斯书店 is Used bookstore on 7 昌兴街, 广州市.
7 昌兴街, 广州市
联合书店
Bookstore0.2 km from GuangzhouRun by 广东新文化事业发展有限公司
联合书店 is Bookstore run by 广东新文化事业发展有限公司 on 314 北京路, 广州市. 联合书店 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as closed; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
314 北京路, 广州市
Hours: closed
Phone: +86 20 8330 6987
新华书店
Bookstore0.3 km from Guangzhou
新华书店 — Bookstore.
1200bookshop
Bookstore0.7 km from Guangzhou
1200bookshop — Bookstore, found on 168 北京路商业步行街 in 广州市. Also worth knowing about 1200bookshop: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
168 北京路商业步行街, 广州市, 510115
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
Phone: +86 20 83520327
越秀购书中心
Bookstore1.5 km from Guangzhou
越秀购书中心 is Bookstore.
扶光书店
Bookstore1.7 km from Guangzhou
扶光书店 — Bookstore on 18 建设大马路.
18 建设大马路
新华书店
Bookstore1.8 km from Guangzhou
新华书店 — Bookstore.
柒阅
Bookstore2.0 km from Guangzhou
柒阅 is Bookstore.
巴士书店
Bookstore2.7 km from Guangzhou
巴士书店 is Bookstore.
东山口书城
Bookstore2.7 km from Guangzhou
东山口书城 is Bookstore.
Zhong Shu Ge 閣書鍾
Bookstore3.3 km from Guangzhou
Zhong Shu Ge 閣書鍾 — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Zhong Shu Ge 閣書鍾: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00.
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
学而优书店
Bookstore4.3 km from Guangzhou
学而优书店 is Bookstore.
广州购书中心
Bookstore5.3 km from Guangzhou
广州购书中心 is Bookstore.
1200bookshop（体育东店）
Bookstore5.9 km from Guangzhou
1200bookshop（体育东店） is Bookstore on 27号 体育东路. 1200bookshop（体育东店） also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 24/7; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
27号 体育东路, 510000
Hours: 24/7
Phone: +86 20 8526 0827
西西弗书店
Bookstore6.1 km from Guangzhou
西西弗书店 is Bookstore.
方所
Bookstore6.4 km from Guangzhou
方所 is Bookstore on 383 天河路, 广州市. 方所 also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 10:00-22:00; it has a website with more detail.
383 天河路, 广州市, 510620
Hours: Mo-Su 10:00-22:00
新华书店
Bookstore6.6 km from Guangzhou
新华书店 — Bookstore.
唐宁书店
Bookstore7.2 km from Guangzhou
唐宁书店 is Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Guangzhou
5 of the 20 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
2 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
The Guangzhou bookstore crawl
The efficient Guangzhou bookstore crawl strings these together: 科技书店, 儿童书店, 博尔赫斯书店 on 7 昌兴街, 联合书店 on 314 北京路, 新华书店, 1200bookshop on 168 北京路商业步行街, 越秀购书中心, and 扶光书店 on 18 建设大马路 — 20 stops, one logical order. 12 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Guangzhou
A few things worth knowing before you work through Guangzhou's bookstores:
- Check the sale shelf rhythm at 科技书店. Shops clear shelves on cycles. Ask when the next cull happens — that's when the bargains land.
- Learn your editions at 儿童书店. A first edition, first printing is the collectible one. Booksellers will show you how to check the copyright page.
- Kids' sections are goldmines. Even without kids. The picture-book art alone is worth the browse, and the middle-grade shelves hold genuine classics.
- The used section is underpriced everywhere. Books are heavy and slow to sell, so used shelves price to move. First editions hide here regularly.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Guangzhou — 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 Guangzhou can take a while to appear. The 20 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 20 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 Guangzhou
17 more within about 40 km of Guangzhou — here are the 15 nearest:
集文书店
Bookstore12.3 km from Guangzhou
集文书店 is Bookstore.
唐宁书店
Bookstore15.9 km from Guangzhou
唐宁书店 is Bookstore.
粒子空间
Bookstore17.0 km from Guangzhou
粒子空间 is Bookstore.
先行圖書
Bookstore19.9 km from GuangzhouRun by 佛山市一行图书有限公司
Run by 佛山市一行图书有限公司, 先行圖書 is Bookstore, found on 27 垂虹路 in 佛山市. Also worth knowing about 先行圖書: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:30-21:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
27 垂虹路, 佛山市
Hours: Mo-Su 09:30-21:30
Phone: +86 757 83391246
新华书店
Bookstore21.3 km from Guangzhou
新华书店 — Bookstore, found on 246号 光明北路 in 广州市. Also worth knowing about 新华书店: the map lists its hours as 10:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
246号 光明北路, 广州市
Hours: 10:00-21:00
Phone: +86 20 3481 3316
番禺购书中心
Bookstore23.8 km from Guangzhou
番禺购书中心 — Bookstore.
几何之夏
Bookstore27.2 km from Guangzhou
几何之夏 — Bookstore.
逸臣书屋
Bookstore28.7 km from Guangzhou
逸臣书屋 is Bookstore.
逸臣书屋
Bookstore29.4 km from Guangzhou
逸臣书屋 is Bookstore.
新华书店
Bookstore29.5 km from Guangzhou
新华书店 — Bookstore.
逸臣书店
Bookstore29.6 km from Guangzhou
逸臣书店 — Bookstore.
几何之厦
Bookstore30.1 km from Guangzhou
几何之厦 — Bookstore.
博阅书屋
Bookstore31.0 km from Guangzhou
博阅书屋 is Bookstore.
顺德购书中心
Bookstore32.7 km from Guangzhou
顺德购书中心 — Bookstore.
文筑文创书店
Bookstore36.4 km from Guangzhou
文筑文创书店 — Bookstore, found on 大良街道碧水路顺德图书馆1楼正门口旁 in 佛山市.
大良街道碧水路顺德图书馆1楼正门口旁, 佛山市, 0757
Bookstore listings for Guangzhou: 20 in Guangzhou and 17 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.