Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

This charming, medieval walled village is Spain's first "book town."

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.