The best bookshops Midi-Pyrénées

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!

For the past ten years, this bookshop specialized in comics has also been a tea room. It is possible to have a coffee, to have a snack or to have lunch while leafing through the latest Riad Satouf or Joann Sfar book. Mangas, adult comics, classics, comics, youth catalog, Sébastien and Alexandre offer comics for all readers. Passionate about vignettes and bubbles, they follow authors and their news closely and will be able to recommend the latest novel not to be missed.

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!

The only "big" bookshop in Foix and even in the Ariège. On the ground floor, stationery department and everything that goes with it. On the first floor, a bookshop with a corner for children, schools, regionalism, tourism, art, photography, etc. Pocket books, art books, the latest work on the Cathars or the old collection of poems by a little known Ariège poet, you will find them at Surre. Not forgetting, of course, all the editions of Le Petit Futé!

La Maison du Livre is a bookshop located in Rodez. It offers a wide selection of books, films, music and games. Customers can buy in-store, do a drive-through or have their order delivered. La Maison du Livre also organizes events such as author signings.

Cultura is an independent brand with a dual vocation: to be a distributor concerned about diversity and to carry out the mission of a cultural animator. Take the metro to Balma to discover the richness of its offer. The shelves are organized in a circuit allowing you to discover a succession of universes: youth with albums and games, health and well-being books, French and foreign literature, video games, music with CDs and musical instruments... It should be noted that Cultura Balma organizes many events (meetings, dedications, shows, creative workshops...) and hosts a music school that brings together 300 students and seven reference teachers.

In downtown Colomiers, book lovers have been meeting for over thirty years in this independent bookstore. Established on two floors, it offers vast, luminous spaces, very pleasant to browse through and to feed your Reading pile! A team of experienced booksellers awaits you to guide you. The biblio-diversity is perfectly assured: French, foreign and children's literature, albums, manga and comic books, thrillers, but also beautiful books, history, philosophy, psychology... A true cultural player, the Preface organizes numerous events: book signings, workshops for children, exhibitions, philosophy meetings... A land of encounters.

It is true that with a playground as fabulous as the one in the Haut-Adour valley, you might want to crawl along the trails more than to sit quietly with a book, but don't hesitate to cross the threshold of the Bouquinerie Associative. It's a little jewel of its kind and few places have such a beautiful soul. If the shelves are overflowing, the spirit is clear: allow everyone to acquire books, spread the desire to discover them and share the love of words. Novels, stories, humour, thrillers, science fiction and even books in foreign languages: some 15,000 references, for adults and children alike, open their pages to you! In other words, you will find forgotten, sought-after and sometimes rare titles that are no longer published, and you will get to know contemporary or classic authors who may have escaped your notice. The rates are unbeatable, the atmosphere is unique and to read under a tree in the thermal park, it is nevertheless a good idea !

The Leclerc Cultural Center, located in Blagnac, is dedicated to all cultures or almost all cultures: Shelves dedicated to music, films or video games happily complement the well-supplied bookstore space in general public works. You will find both the best sellers in fashion and the latest news in terms of literature in competition (Femina, Goncourt, Renaudot…), police novels or comics. But you can also find here books on politics or news, youth literature for your children and cooking books, very practical.

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.

You will be very quickly informed and advised in this library where you will find a large collection of pyrenean books, maps and guides for hiking.

Located in the shopping mall, the Cultural Centre of the shopping centre has a large library, but also music and multimedia spaces. We like to come here for the great quantity of references in all areas: regionalist literature, beautiful books, pocket books, history, politics, practical life, travel guides (Le Petit Smart y is!), road maps, student books, children, short for everyone. The reception is friendly and knowledgeable and, if a book is missing, booksellers can order it without extra charge. Musical and multimedia rays are also provided, with interesting prices and some good business from time to time.

In the heart of the typical village of Sarrant, this tartinerie library offers a literary stop. The bookshop with 6 000 titles displays its commitment to rural and economic development in the service of man. Renovated place with respect for traditional techniques, this library-tartinerie will ease you. On the ground floor, you will take the time to appreciate the books carefully selected by Catherine, while regaling with homemade bread; while your children will take their first steps in youth space. But to the pleasure of dishes and words, you will add the pleasure of eyes and ears. On the first floor, an exhibition space allows you to hold readings or to let you bask in the sound of a rhyme. Meeting place, tea salon, gallery, restaurant, bookstore, café, projection room.

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.