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Kraków Bookshops & Record Stores

Kraków Bookshops & Record Stores
For native English speakers a pilgrimage to Massolit is obligatory. Rightfully adopted as an expat cultural centre, it's a great place to meet people and home to helpful message boards offering expat services. While you'll find English-language books in several other places, look no further than Massolit.

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American Bookstore

Your best bet outside cyberspace for getting the latest Harry Potter book, Grisham thriller or Stephen King creeper in its original language, this small store in the Galeria is generally preoccupied with the bestsellers list. Read_on (No Comments)

Austeria

Situated in the historical High Synagogue, Austeria is the largest Jewish bookstore in Kraków, offering literature, history, guide books and more in a number of languages, plus music CDs and tourist information. Read_on (No Comments)

Empik Megastore

Empik Megastore
Right on the market square, Empik is a veritable one-stop shop for books, music, films, video games and more. A sizeable collection of English-language periodicals lives on the ground floor, though the price mark-ups can be shocking. Read_on (No Comments)

Fankomiks

Fankomiks
Kraków's only proper comic book store (if you can call it that), Fankomiks occupies a tiny retail space shoehorned into a courtyard just off the market square. Read_on (No Comments)

House Of Albums

Exclusively selling handsome (though expensive) coffeetable books, many of which are in English, this is the best place to buy photography books which will prove to everyone back home how beautiful PL is. Read_on (No Comments)

Jarden

This expansive Jewish bookstore carries over 400 titles in a range of languages, including over 100 in English on everything Judaic from history and culture to guidebooks and cookbooks. Read_on (No Comments)

Księgarnia Hetmańska

Księgarnia Hetmańska
Pasaż Hetmańska is home to several shops, including a Polish-language bookstore, a record store which also sells posters, patches, t-shirts and other music paraphrenalia, as well of plenty of other souvenir vendors. Read_on (No Comments)

Massolit Books & Café

Massolit Books & Café
The best English-language bookstore in Central Europe, owing in large part to its unique cafe atmosphere. With books on all Read_on (2 Comments)

Music Corner

Slightly less corporate than Empik, this record store chain is your best bet for finding whatever album it is you're looking for in Kraków, though that doesn't mean the chances are great. Read_on (No Comments)

Records Dillaz

Records Dillaz
This tiny shop on the fringes of Kazimierz specialises in vinyl records, with crates of classic rock, soul and funk, hip-hop, the latest club-bangers, DJ samples, and more; plus CDs, t-shirts and culture zines as well. Read_on (No Comments)

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