The best bookshops Turin

Just a stone's throw from the Egyptian Museum, this beautiful bookshop, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest in the city and retains the charm and cachet of the bookstores of yesteryear. For a little time travel, this is the ideal place. Specializing in international literature, you will find everything: novels, magazines, art books, all of course in several languages, including many works in French.

Independent bookshop in the center of Turin, specializing in design, architecture, fashion, photography and art in general. It's a very welcoming place that regularly organizes conferences and meetings with authors, with highly specialized, high-level content, yet accessible to all. A tour de force! A must-see if you're passionate about artistic disciplines, because there's nothing better in this field!

The Italian publisher Corraini's outlet, located in the Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Pinacoteca, is an excellent place to find gifts or to delve deeper into artistic themes. Books on design, architecture and art - the speciality of this bookshop, in keeping with the pinacoteca that houses it - and children's books, as well as philosophical and offbeat comics, await you in this vast, luminous space. Workshops and meetings for adults and children are organized on a regular basis.

Here's the pun for those who haven't mastered the language of Dante: if you separate each of the words, you get "livres à boutique"(libri da bottega), but the apostrophe after the l reflects the spirit of this friendly bookshop, "l'hybride boutique"(l'ibrida bottega). Here, readers are king: they can find books on Turin, take part in literary evenings and practice book crossing by dropping off one book and picking up another free of charge. The Ibrida Bottega is also a design boutique where you can find trendy writing utensils.

If the name of this bookshop intrigues you, you should know that bardotto is the Italian name for the bardot, the result of a cross between a horse and a donkey. A hybrid, in other words. And that's what this place was all about, mixing café and bookshop for years. Since then, covid has come and gone, and the literary aperitifs have slowed down, but the bookshop continues valiantly to offer book signings, books on architecture, design, quality illustrated works for children, books on fashion, gardening... all selected with care and meaning.

All the French bookstores have gradually closed their doors in Turin, but fortunately here is Au quartier latin, a superb Franco-Italian bookstore that also has some books in Spanish. It specializes in 19th and 20th century literature and poetry, as well as books on history, travel, mountains, cooking... Warm wooden decor that makes you want to linger. The opening hours are limited but it is worth the detour.

Open every day and with long opening hours, this large Feltrinelli Group bookshop offers a truly comprehensive range of books, CDs and vinyls, films, stationery, children's games... You're bound to find what you're looking for here, on all three floors, with numerous special offers throughout the year. The friendly, competent staff will be happy to help you if you feel a little lost in the aisles.