Bookstores in Winterthur
Bookstores reward the browsers. Winterthur, Zurich has 13 mapped right now. That's 13 bookshops mapped around Winterthur, 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 Winterthur (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Press & Books and Orell Füssli, plus Lüthy. If a bookshop's missing from Winterthur's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Winterthur bookstore lineup
13 in Winterthur, plus 96 more around Winterthur below:
Press & Books
Bookstore0.1 km from WinterthurRun by Valora
Press & Books is Bookstore run by Valora. Press & Books also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Winterthur, 8400
Orell Füssli
Bookstore0.1 km from Winterthur
Orell Füssli is Bookstore. Orell Füssli also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 07:30-21:00; Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 10:00-20:00; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Fr 07:30-21:00; Sa 09:00-20:00; Su 10:00-20:00
Lüthy
Bookstore0.2 km from WinterthurRun by Lüthy + Stocker
Lüthy is Bookstore run by Lüthy + Stocker on 3 Strickerstrasse, Winterthur. Lüthy also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 08:30-20:00; Sa 08:30-18:00; PH off; it has a website with more detail.
3 Strickerstrasse, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:30-20:00; Sa 08:30-18:00; PH off
Orell Füssli
Bookstore0.3 km from WinterthurRun by Orell Füssli Thalia
Orell Füssli is Bookstore run by Orell Füssli Thalia on 41 Marktgasse, Winterthur. Orell Füssli also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-We,Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su off; Th 09:00-19:00; it has a website with more detail.
41 Marktgasse, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo-We,Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:00-17:00; Su off; Th 09:00-19:00
Buch am Platz
Bookstore0.4 km from Winterthur
Buch am Platz is Bookstore on 2 Kirchplatz, Winterthur. Buch am Platz also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 12:00-18:30; Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-17:00, May 01 off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2 Kirchplatz, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo 12:00-18:30; Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-17:00, May 01 off
Phone: +41 52 213 03 53
Zappa Doing
Bookstore0.5 km from Winterthur
Zappa Doing is Bookstore on 5 Obergasse, Winterthur. Zappa Doing also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5 Obergasse, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-17:00
Phone: +41 52 212 23 22
Antiquariat und Galerie im Rathausdurchgang
Bookstore0.5 km from Winterthur
Antiquariat und Galerie im Rathausdurchgang — Bookstore on 57 Stadthausstrasse. Also worth knowing about Antiquariat und Galerie im Rathausdurchgang: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 12:00-18:30; Sa 12:00-16:00; PH off.
57 Stadthausstrasse
Hours: Tu-Fr 12:00-18:30; Sa 12:00-16:00; PH off
Obergass Bücher
Bookstore0.5 km from Winterthur
Obergass Bücher — Bookstore, found on 2a Obergasse in Winterthur. Also worth knowing about Obergass Bücher: the map lists its hours as Mo 13:30-18:30, Tu-Fr 08:00-18:30, Sa 08:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
2a Obergasse, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo 13:30-18:30, Tu-Fr 08:00-18:30, Sa 08:00-16:00
Phone: +41 52 213 26 62
Buchparadies
Bookstore0.6 km from WinterthurRun by BuchParadies Rahel-Medea Ruoss
Buchparadies is Bookstore run by BuchParadies Rahel-Medea Ruoss on 12 Tösstalstrasse, Winterthur. Buchparadies also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 09:00-12:00,13:00-18:00; Fr 09:00-12:00,13:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-16:00.
12 Tösstalstrasse, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo 09:00-12:00,13:00-18:00; Fr 09:00-12:00,13:00-18:30; Sa 10:00-16:00
Fontis
Bookstore0.6 km from WinterthurRun by Fontis
Fontis is Bookstore run by Fontis on 26 Obertor, Winterthur. Fontis also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 13:30-18:30; Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
26 Obertor, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo 13:30-18:30; Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:00-16:00
Phone: +41 52 213 40 59
kids-team
Bookstore1.2 km from WinterthurRun by Josua Vonrüti
Run by Josua Vonrüti, kids-team is Bookstore. Also worth knowing about kids-team: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
8400
Phone: +41 52 242 82 20
Orell Füssli
Bookstore2.1 km from WinterthurRun by Orell Füssli Thalia
Orell Füssli is Bookstore run by Orell Füssli Thalia on 152 Schaffhauserstrasse, Winterthur. Orell Füssli also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-20:00; Sa 09:00-18:00; it has a website with more detail.
152 Schaffhauserstrasse, Winterthur, 8400
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-20:00; Sa 09:00-18:00
Bücherflohmarkt
Bookstore3.1 km from WinterthurRun by Anhaltspunkt Neuhegi
Run by Anhaltspunkt Neuhegi, Bücherflohmarkt is Bookstore on 91 Ida-Sträuli-Strasse. Also worth knowing about Bücherflohmarkt: it has a website with more detail.
91 Ida-Sträuli-Strasse
What the map tells us about bookstores in Winterthur
10 of the 13 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.
The Winterthur bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Winterthur? Work this order: Press & Books, Orell Füssli, Lüthy on 3 Strickerstrasse, Orell Füssli on 41 Marktgasse, Buch am Platz on 2 Kirchplatz, Zappa Doing on 5 Obergasse, Antiquariat und Galerie im Rathausdurchgang on 57 Stadthausstrasse, and Obergass Bücher on 2a Obergasse. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 5 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Winterthur
A few things worth knowing before you work through Winterthur's bookstores:
- Learn your editions at Press & Books. A first edition, first printing is the collectible one. Booksellers will show you how to check the copyright page.
- Magazines and journals matter at Orell Füssli. The little-magazine rack is where new writers appear first. Cheap, weird, and full of discoveries.
- Poetry lives in bookshops. Poetry barely exists online as a browsing experience. The poetry shelf in a real shop is a different world.
- Don't overlook the classics wall. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
Good to know
We searched about 25 km around Winterthur — 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 Winterthur can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 13, 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 13 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 Winterthur
96 more within about 25 km of Winterthur — here are the 15 nearest:
Bücher-Chorb
Bookstore13.2 km from Winterthur
Bücher-Chorb — Bookstore.
Press & Books
Bookstore13.2 km from Winterthur
Press & Books is Bookstore. Press & Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 05:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: 05:00-22:00
Phone: +41 43 816 35 79
Press & Books
Bookstore13.3 km from Winterthur
Press & Books is Bookstore. Press & Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su,PH 05:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 05:00-22:00
Phone: +41 43 818 93 00
Orell Füssli
Bookstore13.3 km from WinterthurRun by Orell Füssli Thalia
Orell Füssli is Bookstore run by Orell Füssli Thalia. Orell Füssli also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 08:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su 08:00-21:00
Phone: +41 848 849 848
Press & Books
Bookstore13.3 km from Winterthur
Press & Books is Bookstore. Press & Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 06:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: 06:00-21:00
Phone: +41 43 818 97 20
Press & Books
Bookstore13.4 km from Winterthur
Press & Books is Bookstore. Press & Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su,PH 06:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 06:00-21:00
Phone: +41 43 816 35 79
Press & Books
Bookstore13.4 km from Winterthur
Press & Books is Bookstore. Press & Books also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su,PH 06:00-22:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo-Su,PH 06:00-22:00
Phone: +41 43 305 29 02
Orell Füssli
Bookstore13.6 km from WinterthurRun by Orell Füssli Thalia
Orell Füssli is Bookstore run by Orell Füssli Thalia. Orell Füssli also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-20:00; PH off; it has a website with more detail.
Volketswil, 8604
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-20:00; PH off
Altstadtbuchhandlung
Bookstore13.9 km from Winterthur
Altstadtbuchhandlung is Bookstore.
Fontis
Bookstore13.9 km from Winterthur
Fontis is Bookstore on 31 Marktgasse, Bülach. Fontis also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 09:00-12:00,13:30-18:30, Sa 09:00-16:00; PH off; it has a website with more detail.
31 Marktgasse, Bülach, 8180
Hours: Tu-Fr 09:00-12:00,13:30-18:30, Sa 09:00-16:00; PH off
Ex Libris
Bookstore13.9 km from WinterthurRun by Ex Libris
Run by Ex Libris, Ex Libris is Bookstore, found on 99 Neue Winterthurerstrasse in Wallisellen. Also worth knowing about Ex Libris: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-20:00; it has a website with more detail.
99 Neue Winterthurerstrasse, Wallisellen, 8301
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-20:00
Lüthy
Bookstore14.0 km from WinterthurRun by Lüthy + Stocker
Lüthy is Bookstore run by Lüthy + Stocker on 99 Neue Winterthurerstrasse, Wallisellen. Lüthy also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
99 Neue Winterthurerstrasse, Wallisellen, 8304
Kreuz-Papeterie
Bookstore14.0 km from Winterthur
Kreuz-Papeterie — Bookstore.
Orell Füssli
Bookstore14.5 km from WinterthurRun by Orell Füssli Thalia
Orell Füssli is Bookstore run by Orell Füssli Thalia on 76 Bahnhofplatz, Frauenfeld. Orell Füssli also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; PH off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
76 Bahnhofplatz, Frauenfeld, 8500
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-17:00; PH off
Phone: +41 848 84 98 48
Bücherladen Marianne Sax
Bookstore14.6 km from Winterthur
Bücherladen Marianne Sax is Bookstore. Bücherladen Marianne Sax also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo 13:30-18:30; Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:00-16:00; PH closed; it has a website with more detail.
Hours: Mo 13:30-18:30; Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:00-16:00; PH closed
Bookstore listings for Winterthur: 13 in Winterthur and 96 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.