Top 10 bookshops in Brussels
Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, has a vibrant bookshop landscape with large, small, generalist and even specialist bookshops to browse. This is a city full of bookshops and has a real passion for literature. The bookshops are warm, welcoming and unique in their own way. A number of the very popular bookshops that are among the top best in Brussels are French-language bookshops. Here’s a list of top 10 bookshops in Brussels.
Passa Porta Bookshop
Passa Porta Bookshop is one of the leading bookshops in Brussels with book lovers patronizing it from across the world. It is the best multilingual bookshop in the capital. Housed in Passa Porta (the international house of literature in Brussels) the bookstore offers, under its beautiful well of light, a quality selection of novels, poems, essays and books for children. You will also find staff members who will assist you to locate your favourite books waiting for you in the bookstore when you visit.
Replica Bookshop
Replica is noted for having the most charming selection of Dutch and English books. Located behind Tour & Taxis, this bookstore offers nice environment where you can sit back and relax, with or without a book. You can order a flat white and a fresh cookie or cinnamon roll, grab a seat and admire the book covers that line the walls. You will receive so much knowledge and experience within just a few square metres as you visit the bookshop.
Tropismes
Tropismes is located in the Royal Saint-Hubert galleries and has exceptional beauty that delights visitors. The bookshop is housed in a historical setting, with gigantic mirrors and a magnificent mezzanine. This intriguing bookshop focuses on human sciences, great classics and fine arts. It also offers a rich selection for youths and comics for youngsters. Make this bookstore your destination any time you want good books.
Le Wolf
Le Wolf is best described as the temple of children’s literature and this why parents love the bookstore. It is a bookshop entirely designed with youngsters in mind. In its original and luminous setting, children choose their future favourite stories. There also Freddy the sleeping wolf upstairs to spice up children’s time at the bookstore. Le Wolf also organises courses, workshops and storytelling readings. This is a highly recommended destination for book lovers across the world..
Galerie Bortier
Galerie Bortier is one of the best places for bookshop owners and second-hand booksellers. With its magnificent glass roof, this covered passage houses the Pierre Coumans bookshop, with its old books and works that are full of soul. A short detour to the Crypt Tonique bookshop will give any book lover an insight into the most advanced aspects of images (literary, mental or plastic). This is the ideal place to spend hours searching for that rare gem.
Bozar Bookshop by Walther König
Bozar appointed bookstore Walther Walther König as the official Bozar Bookshop of the Centre for Fine Arts. Here you will find all the Bozar exhibition catalogues, a wide selection of international books on art, architecture, photography and design, design objects and children books and toys. With branches in major cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Milan, Walther König is Europe’s leading art bookstore and is one of the most respected art book publishing houses in the world. . BOZAR Bookshop fits perfectly with the Art Deco architecture that Victor Horta designed for this Palace of Fine Arts. Walther König bookshop is also located in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Stedelijke Museum in Amsterdam.
Candide
Candide is a dominant name in Brussels bookshop landscape. It is located on the charming place Brugmann. It has a fine selection of travel and cookery books, a delightful children’s corner and an eclectic selection of novels.
Peinture Fraîche
The pretty Peinture Fraîche bookshop located in the heart of the Flagey neighbourhood. The bookstore has a magnificent Art Nouveau-inspired wood-panel window. Peinture Fraîche doesn’t just offer literature, but a fine selection of art, architecture, illustration, photo and design books. You’ll love the atmosphere when you visit this bookshop.
Cook & Book
Cook and Book is very unique for combining bookshop and restaurant, with 9 different universes spread over two spaces. Block A houses the comics, youth, travel, fine arts and music sections. Block B is reserved for the Art of Living, Literature, Cooking and English books sections. The bookstore also offers delicious Sunday brunches in Block B, making it a wonderful spot for families. You will always find your choice books here.
Filigranes
Filigranes is another top bookshop in the centre of Brussels. This bookshop offers meetings with authors, workshops and conferences. Filigranes is noted for having a very large comic book section. In the heart of this huge bookshop there is also a very nice area for visitors to take a break and have a drink. This bookshop could also be found Ixelles and in Uccle. It’s a great option for book lovers.
