Bookstores in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Bookstores reward the browsers. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands has 25 mapped right now. That's 25 bookshops mapped around Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Librería Solidaria Solican and Librería Islátika, plus La Isla. If a bookshop's missing from Santa Cruz de Tenerife's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Santa Cruz de Tenerife bookstore lineup
25 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, plus 4 more around Santa Cruz de Tenerife below:
Librería Solidaria Solican
Bookstore0.2 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Solidaria Solican is Bookstore on 16 Calle Padre Anchieta, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Librería Solidaria Solican also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-14:00, 17:00-21:00; Fr10:00-16:00; Su 09:00-15:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
16 Calle Padre Anchieta, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-14:00, 17:00-21:00; Fr10:00-16:00; Su 09:00-15:00
Phone: +34 622 919206
Librería Islátika
Bookstore0.5 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Islátika is Bookstore on 14 Calle Suárez Guerra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Librería Islátika also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:00; Su Off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
14 Calle Suárez Guerra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38003
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:00; Su Off
Phone: +34 822143105
La Isla
Bookstore0.5 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
La Isla — Bookstore on 2 Calle de Robayna. Also worth knowing about La Isla: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2 Calle de Robayna
Phone: +34 922 285 481
Librería El Atril
Bookstore0.5 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería El Atril — Bookstore, found on 23 Calle Suárez Guerra in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Also worth knowing about Librería El Atril: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:30; Sa 10:00-13:30; Su Off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
23 Calle Suárez Guerra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38003
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:30; Sa 10:00-13:30; Su Off
Phone: +34 674024032
Librería de Mujeres de Canarias
Bookstore0.6 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería de Mujeres de Canarias is Bookstore on 42 Calle Sabino Berthelot, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Librería de Mujeres de Canarias also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 10:00-14:00; Tu-Fr 10:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-14:30; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
42 Calle Sabino Berthelot, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38002
Hours: Mo 10:00-14:00; Tu-Fr 10:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-14:30; Su off
Phone: +34 922270362
Agapea
Bookstore0.9 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Agapea — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Agapea: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-21:00.
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-21:00
Ifara Libros
Bookstore0.9 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ifara Libros — Bookstore, found on 32 Calle Juan Pablo II in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Also worth knowing about Ifara Libros: the map lists its hours as Mo-Tu 09:30-13:30,17:00-20:00; We 09:30-13:30,16:30-20:00; Th 09:30-15:00,17:00-20:00; Fr 09:30-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
32 Calle Juan Pablo II, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38004
Hours: Mo-Tu 09:30-13:30,17:00-20:00; We 09:30-13:30,16:30-20:00; Th 09:30-15:00,17:00-20:00; Fr 09:30-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30; Su off
Phone: +34 922270528
Canarybooks
Bookstore0.9 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Canarybooks is Bookstore.
Unamuno
Bookstore1.2 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Unamuno — Bookstore.
Chapatal
Bookstore1.2 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Chapatal — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Chapatal: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30
Almogaren Guanche
Bookstore4.8 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Almogaren Guanche — Bookstore.
Librería Tinerfeña 2000
Bookstore6.6 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Tinerfeña 2000 — Bookstore.
Librería Lemus
Bookstore6.7 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Lemus is Bookstore on 64 Heraclio Sánchez, La Laguna. Librería Lemus also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-13:30,16:00-20:00; Sa 09:30-13:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
64 Heraclio Sánchez, La Laguna, 38204
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-13:30,16:00-20:00; Sa 09:30-13:30
Phone: +34 922251145
Librería Lemus
Bookstore6.7 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Lemus is Bookstore. Librería Lemus also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-13:30, 16:00-20:00; Sa 09:30-13:30; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-13:30, 16:00-20:00; Sa 09:30-13:30
Librería El Paso
Bookstore6.8 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería El Paso is Bookstore on 15 Tabares de Cala, La Laguna. Librería El Paso also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:30-20:30; Sa 10:00-13:30; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
15 Tabares de Cala, La Laguna, 38201
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:30-20:30; Sa 10:00-13:30; Su off
Phone: +34 922252913
Dagobah Comics
Bookstore6.8 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Dagobah Comics is Bookstore. Dagobah Comics also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-13:00; 17:00-20:30.
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-13:00; 17:00-20:30
Entre libros
Bookstore6.9 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Entre libros is Bookstore on 6 Calle Luciano Ramos Díaz. Entre libros also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30, 17:00-20:30; Sa 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
6 Calle Luciano Ramos Díaz, 38202
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30, 17:00-20:30; Sa 10:00-14:00
Phone: +34 665 09 29 04; +34 665 22 89 66
Sothis
Bookstore6.9 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Sothis — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Sothis: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30, 17:00-20:30; Sa 10:00-13:30.
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30, 17:00-20:30; Sa 10:00-13:30
Nobel
Bookstore6.9 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Nobel is Bookstore on 8 Calle San Juan.
8 Calle San Juan
Librería El Águila
Bookstore7.0 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería El Águila — Bookstore, found on 43 Calle Obispo Rey Redondo in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Also worth knowing about Librería El Águila: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; Su Off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
43 Calle Obispo Rey Redondo, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 38201
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; Su Off
Phone: +34 922259732
Melbert
Bookstore7.0 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Melbert is Bookstore. Melbert also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-13:00,16:45-20:15; Sa 09:45-13:15.
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-13:00,16:45-20:15; Sa 09:45-13:15
Nymeria Comics
Bookstore7.1 km from Santa Cruz de TenerifeRun by Nymeria Cómics
Nymeria Comics is Bookstore run by Nymeria Cómics on 26 Calle Alcalde Alonso Suárez Melián, San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Nymeria Comics also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:30-14:00,16:00-20:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
26 Calle Alcalde Alonso Suárez Melián, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 38201
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:30-14:00,16:00-20:30
Phone: +34 640 26 54 63
bitANCAP
Bookstore7.4 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
bitANCAP — Bookstore, found on 3 Calle Escultor Estévez in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Also worth knowing about bitANCAP: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
3 Calle Escultor Estévez, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 38203
Phone: +34 644 76 65 76
Librería El Refugio
Bookstore7.5 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería El Refugio — Bookstore, found on 21 Calle Maya in La Laguna. Also worth knowing about Librería El Refugio: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
21 Calle Maya, La Laguna, 38202
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; Su off
Phone: +34 680109159
Librería Papelería La Villa
Bookstore7.6 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Papelería La Villa — Bookstore.
What the map tells us about bookstores in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
17 of the 25 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
9 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
Most of the bookstores in Santa Cruz de Tenerife list a phone number. Useful for checking whether a specific title is in stock before you visit.
The Santa Cruz de Tenerife bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Santa Cruz de Tenerife? Work this order: Librería Solidaria Solican on 16 Calle Padre Anchieta, Librería Islátika on 14 Calle Suárez Guerra, La Isla on 2 Calle de Robayna, Librería El Atril on 23 Calle Suárez Guerra, Librería de Mujeres de Canarias on 42 Calle Sabino Berthelot, Agapea, Ifara Libros on 32 Calle Juan Pablo II, and Canarybooks. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 17 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The regulars' playbook for Santa Cruz de Tenerife's bookshops:
- Don't overlook the classics wall at Librería Solidaria Solican. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
- Ask about the book club discount at Librería Islátika. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
- Magazines and journals matter. The little-magazine rack is where new writers appear first. Cheap, weird, and full of discoveries.
- Check the sale shelf rhythm. Shops clear shelves on cycles. Ask when the next cull happens — that's when the bargains land.
Good to know
We searched about 25 km around Santa Cruz de Tenerife — 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 25, or a bookstore we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.
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 25 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
4 more within about 25 km of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, nearest first:
Libreria Artes
Bookstore11.3 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Libreria Artes is Bookstore.
Librería El Barco de Papel
Bookstore18.0 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería El Barco de Papel — Bookstore, found on 18 Avenida Inmaculada Concepción in El Sauzal. Also worth knowing about Librería El Barco de Papel: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 08:30-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa-Su 09:30-13:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
18 Avenida Inmaculada Concepción, El Sauzal, 38360
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:30-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa-Su 09:30-13:30
Phone: +34 922570695
Librería Orobal
Bookstore22.2 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Orobal is Bookstore on 62 Avenida de Santa Cruz, Güimar.
62 Avenida de Santa Cruz, Güimar, 38500
Librería Góngora
Bookstore22.4 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Librería Góngora is Bookstore.
Bookstore listings for Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 25 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and 4 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.