The best bookshops Toulouse

It's impossible to talk about independent bookshops without mentioning Ombres Blanches, which is so widespread in the city center! A team of nearly fifty booksellers is waiting to advise you in its various nooks and crannies. The main bookshop has several entrances, so you can browse the shelves according to your mood: children's books, classic literature, detective novels, science fiction, essays... A little further on, still on rue Gambetta, the Librairie Voyage, Nature et Pratique opens up new horizons. The cinema bookshop is opposite. The foreign bookshop is on rue Mirepoix. From the rue des Gestes entrance, you can access the café Côté Cour, a delightful place to devour your latest find, while sipping a cup of tea. Numerous meetings are organized, making Ombres blanches a major cultural player in the pink city.

The Gibert bookshop spans 7 floors in a building located at the entrance to Place du Capitole. You won't want to miss it! From travel guides to textbooks, art books to paperbacks... it's all here. An area dedicated to comics and manga will delight fans of graphic art. A few metres further up the rue du Taur, Gibert Papeterie offers a wide choice of small office equipment and postcards.

In the shade of the Augustins, the Privat bookstore opened its doors in 1839! This historical witness of Toulouse's cultural life has been renovated to make it an ideal place for literary strolls. On the ground floor await you the shelves of French and foreign literature. To your left, two rooms dedicated to youth. To the right, explore the mezzanine to find works of well-being, current events, history, art.... Or go down a few steps: you will find a coffee break area! Below, discover the trips, practical books and the school world, as well as a pretty vaulted cellar that hosts exhibitions, conferences and meetings. A must have!

Twenty years ago, the Terra Nova bookshop set up shop in the Pink City, between the Capitole and the Garonne. This beautiful bookshop specializing in literature from near and far offers real invitations to travel for "globe-readers". Books are either translated into French or sold in their original versions: Asian, African and West Indian literature... Terra Nova is more than just a change of scenery: it's also a place for reflection, where you can revisit politics, history and economics in the light of authors from not-so-distant lands. Stories of struggle as well as comics, poetry and children's literature open an extra-large window on the world.

This is a bookstore quickly becoming indispensable. Get into the bubble paradise! On your right, the wisely aligned mangas awaits lovers. On your left, discover the novelties, carefully chosen by a team of superbooksellers (it's like superheroes but with books and without stickers). Then move forward to find the suites of your favorite series and graphic novels. At the bottom is a beautiful space for young people. A small café, accompanied during the beautiful days of a tiny patio, welcomes you to eat your readings on site. A real point: BD Fugue organizes meetings with authors very regularly. We love it!

In Toulouse, FNAC is in several stores, two of which are located in the city center. FNAC Jeanne-d 'Arc is entirely dedicated to multimedia. The FNAC Wilson, for its part, resumes on three levels, all the rays that have made this great area of culture and entertainment: music, books, photo, high-tech, cinema, stationery, games, boxes to offer, carnage… Of course it has a ticket box for the most diverse events: concerts, festivals, sports meetings, theater… You will also find a number of terminals to print your photos. A forum of meetings allows him to organize show-boxes and dedicatory sessions.

Located in the Saint-Cyprien district, l'Autre Rive is an independent bookshop that fits in perfectly with the spirit of the place. Here you can discover, exchange, discuss and debate. It offers a generalist catalog which, along with the sound advice of passionate booksellers, enables everyone to find their new nuggets. Of course, l'Autre Rive also organizes meetings, launches, readings and screenings to bring reading to life. An address not to be missed when crossing the Garonne!

Au Vieux Campeur stores feature a bookshop dedicated to sports tourism, with guides, maps, coffee-table books, magazines and a small selection of videos focused mainly on France, and here on the nearby Canal du Midi. Located in the Innopole shopping center in Labège, on the outskirts of Toulouse, Le Vieux Campeur toulousain also provides walking shoes, walking sticks, water bottle, energy bars and all the gear of the perfect hiker, or even pilgrim. A good spot before setting off along the canal.

See the world in VO without leaving Toulouse. The Bookshop is THE foreign bookshop in the pink city. Specialising in English-language books, it doesn't stop there, far from it, as it offers you books, including many new ones, written in thirty-five languages! Take pleasure in discovering books in Chinese, Romanian, Spanish, Khmer, Polish, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Italian... You will of course find language learning methods, then you will be able to accelerate your learning through a selection of novels, comic books, travel guides... A multilingual team is at your service to guide you in your choices.

The story of Bédéciné began in 1994 and has been awarded the LiR label. This distinction, known as Librairie de Référence, is awarded by the Ministry of Culture to promote the work of independent booksellers. That's enough to make you feel confident about the offer of this bookshop in love with the ninth art! You will find here comics, mangas and comic books, in French as well as in the original version. The shelves also offer a vast choice of fantasy literature, a veritable Garden of Eden for fans of fantasy, science fiction or fantastic, who in addition to books, will find many goodies in the colours of their heroes.

Tire-Lire is an independent children's bookshop belonging to the "librairie Sorcière" network! Don't be fooled, it's just the name given to members of the Association des Librairies Spécialisées Jeunesse! Among other things, this membership means we're well informed about new releases from small, independent and talented publishers. A pledge of biblio-diversity beneficial to little story devourers! Little ones... or not so little ones, because teenagers haven't been forgotten! Meetings and activities are on offer, as well as writing, collage and origami workshops!

Barely installed in the heart of the Minimes district, this new independent bookshop has already won over its public, who are delighted to have the latest book of their devouring passion at their fingertips. When leaving school, work or on lunch break, everyone comes here to browse the well-stocked shelves, buy the latest book or album, or place an order for a particular work. Agnès' dream has come true: to bring people together to read, and to add a bookshop to the dynamic mix of local shops in this neighborhood she loves. Now in the process of retraining, Agnès shares her passion with us.

Meet in more than 400^{m2 of} space dedicated to new and used manga, comics and comic books. It is in this charming street in the centre of Toulouse where it is nice to stroll that you will enjoy pushing the door of this independent bookshop to find the books that promise you moments of relaxation and reverie in your sofa or the back of your bed! There is absolutely something for everyone, with thousands of titles available. And if you are looking for a specific work, don't hesitate to ask the team.

Located in the heart of Toulouse, this bookshop has specialized in the sale of French and Occitan books for 60 years. At first, the shelves were filled with general books sold by mail order, before an Occitan section was added, focusing on regionalism, history, literature and collectors' books. In 2000, Jérôme Thourel took over the family bookshop, and the Occitan section continues to expand with educational material, children's books, fairy tales and poetry.

In the Minimes district, this bookshop opens its shelves to you with passion. It's an atypical, lively and endearing place that book lovers have quickly adopted. Don't be fooled by the tiny window visible from the street: only second-hand books are on offer here. The real action starts once you've passed the door of the building, at the very end of the corridor, like a hidden "spotlight": a place for meetings and discoveries, complete with a café and a pretty patio! Bonus: the children's section, complete with reading corner. You feel like you're visiting book-loving friends... who make you want to come back again and again!

The bookshop specializes, as its name suggests, in Série B books... This literature is all too often neglected, but not unimportant. The shelves are lined with detective stories, thrillers and noir novels, as well as science fiction and fantasy. All the shelves are well-stocked, and you'll find plenty of advice here. Don't miss the enigmatic Tuesday club sessions (dates online). An excellent address for those who like to read and share!

Here is an atypical address, located in the district of Saint-Cyprien, to know absolutely! Here, you can combine the thirst for discovery with the delight of your taste buds. L'Estaminot is a bookstore-café, or a tea room-library, which offers a place to live for the curious and culture-hungry. You can have a drink, chat, browse, buy, have lunch... and read, of course! In short, we live in the middle of books! Literature, cooking, essays, comics... every wish will be fulfilled. We also appreciate the place for the many events that animate it: shows, knitting café, reading workshops, music, lectures... We're asking for more!

The founding of this bookshop dates back to the Liberation! The idea at the time, driven by intellectuals and Resistance fighters, was to bring back into circulation books that had been banned or burnt during the Occupation. So much for setting the scene! Since then, the mission to disseminate cultural heritage has never wavered. Here, you'll find reading material to help you resist the evils of today, such as racism, individualism and consumerism... It's also, of course, a place for cultural encounters, backed up by a comprehensive website.

Within the Ostal d'Occitania, the Tuta d'Òc is a bookstore entirely specialized in the Occitan culture and language. In French or in Occitan, you will find books for all publics (novels, pedagogy, history, children's books...), CDs (traditional and modern music, polyphonic songs...), DVDs (fiction, cartoons, humor, documentaries...) and derived products (stickers, T-shirts...). The bookstore also offers meetings with authors, artists and actors of the Occitan cultural and literary life.

In the Terra Nova bookstore, you can browse and stroll around... This bookstore, located in one of the most important streets in the heart of Toulouse, is the ideal place for literature and culture lovers. In the shelves, you have a large choice of references in foreign literature, French literature, untranslated literature (Spanish, Italian), humanities, youth... And above all, you will find books on Occitan culture while browsing among the shelves. A coffee area also awaits you in the middle of the books!