Brentano's is a good place to head for American classics, modern fiction and bestsellers, and also stocks a decent range of business titles. There is a children's section in...

The renowned and much-imitated one-stop concept and lifestyle store stationed a mobile 'superette' outside while it went into rehab in summer 2008. Expect the same highly...

Opened in 1802, this was the first English-language bookshop in mainland Europe. Today it stocks fine art books, French and English literature, philosophical tomes and magazines.

Formed back in 1929, this string of bookshops is normally packed out with students.

Christophe Persouyre left a career in advertising to share his passion for English and American literature: all the books he stocks were originally penned in English, and here...

This Left Bank institution boasts a global selection of art and design books, and a magnificent collection of French literature and theory.

An institution in the Marais, this bookshop has a large selection of gay fiction, non-fiction, magazines, and English-language books.

Penelope Fletcher Le Masson and Abigail Altman run this friendly literary bookshop in the Marais, which also has an excellent children's section.

More than just a theatre, this historic venue multitasks as a bookshop, tearoom and restaurant. So once you've fed your mind on contemporary, avant-garde and sometimes...

New fiction, non-fiction and literary magazines in English, plus literary events and poetry readings.