Bookstores in Australia for your fictions and academic textbooks

As a student, bookstores that sell titles about both your specialized subjects and the stories that you want to curl up in the weekend is often hard to come by. But we have scoured the maps, surfed the web, and probed around to present you a list of bookstores that you might want to visit on you next free day!

1.    QBD

Starting this list is the bookstore present almost everywhere in Australia! So whether you’re in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, ACT, Northern Territory, or Tasmania, you can surely pop in at your local QBD shop and browse their large selection of titles across a larger range of genres. However, if for whatever reasons you are unable to come physically, you can also visit their website anytime! They also do delivery or self-pick-up on your local store.

Check the location of your nearest bookstore here!

2.    Better Read Than Dead

The next store on this list is one that houses wide selections of titles, and overall, a charismatic ambiance for their shelves. Better Read Than Dead is a bookstore made specifically for the readers who loves to read at a low light beside a hot cup of tea or coffee with a blanket draped over their legs. The store’s feature well-loved by readers and book shoppers alike are their recommendation tags located on the sides of their shelves to complete your book shopping experience! But, should you be unable to visit their store in Newtown’s King Street, they also have a website that allows for delivery or self-pick-up!

Location: 265 King St, Newtown, NSW 2042

3.    Paperback Bookshop

The third store on this list is Paperback Bookshop in Melbourne. Don’t be fooled by their name, this store doesn’t just carry paperbacks! They also house hardbacks from fiction and non-fiction alike. Though their physical store is but a small dent in the cityscape of Melbourne, their interior is completely filled from top to bottom, left to right! Book lovers enjoy visiting this cozy bookstore where scents of old books and new stories waft out from everywhere. Paperback Bookshop also has an online store that allows for delivery and pick-up at a very cheap price!

See delivery rates here!
Location: 60 Bourke St, Melbourne, VIC 3000

4.    Dymocks

The penultimate store in this list is Dymocks, the oldest Australian-owned bookstore. With a store in every state, Dymocks is easily accessible by students from any university in Australia. Dymocks’ is home to abundance of titles across various literary categories and genres—from fiction, non-fiction, and specialized subjects. They also have an online store that does deliveries and store pick-ups. 

Check the location of your nearest bookstore here!

5.    Booktopia

And the last bookstore on this list is that which is easily Australia’s favorite bookstore. Booktopia is an online store only that house over a hundred thousand of titles across a wide range of genres. They sell books from the most in-demand, to the most hard-to-find. As for specialized textbooks, they also sell university textbooks that are of need from law to medicine and everything in between. What’s great is that Booktopia also allows express post to be shipped on the next business day. 

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