The best bookshops Lot

Béatrice Jacques and Etienne Cronier recently took over the Librairie Ancienne Rapaud, an Old Cahors institution, and renamed it La Petite Faiseuse de Livres. Here, you can smell the scent of old books, and look up along walls covered from floor to ceiling with old and second-hand books. The store has a corner for every field: literature, history, architecture, comics and the Quercy region, which the bookshop specializes in.

Take time for a book, a tea, a gourmet board or a slice of bread. Take the time to snack in the garden, to warm up by the stove. You will find more than 3000 books in French and English, but also organic teas and coffees, fruit juices, homemade cakes, salty snacks. And regularly, concerts are organized inside or outside. It's a warm place, like a parenthesis that we like to open... and be late to close

This general bookshop has been accompanying readers in Cadur for decades. A place of exchange, proximity and a real cultural player in the town, Calligramme is one of the shops that cannot be ignored. A place of passage, of mixing, it regularly invites authors to come and meet their public, or organizes exhibitions within its walls. A fine arts space as well as a manga and comic book room are installed in the basement. With its wooden case and its magnificent spiral staircase, this bookshop is a beauty!

Rare works (a th century Bible), numerous references to materials of local bibliography, and this at all prices is the bet of this discreet but complete shop, which offers its advice in the cozy atmosphere of real lovers of the book.

This independent general bookshop opened its doors in June 2023. This village of 650 inhabitants lacked a literary cultural venue. Thanks to manager Marie Cossart, it's now a reality! After a year of preparation, she offers readers general literature, thrillers, art and humanities, children's literature, comics... The little extra: a terrace tea room to enjoy the readings and meetings organized to share her recommendations with visitors.