Best Bookstores in Hobart

Below is a list of the top and leading Bookstores in Hobart. To help you find the best Bookstores located near you in Hobart, we put together our own list based on this rating points list.

Hobart’s Best Bookstores:

The top rated Bookstores in Hobart are:

• Hobart Book Shop
• Fullers Bookshop
• Dymocks Hobart

Hobart Book Shop

Hobart Book Shop is a proud independent bookshop.

The proprietors, Christopher Pearce and Janet Grecian, have a long history in bookselling. Christopher’s father, Cedric Pearce was one of Hobart’s best known booksellers from the 1940s to the early 1980s. Christopher began his bookselling career in the early 1970s, ran the University Bookshop in Port Moresby (PNG) during the 1980s, and opened the Hobart Bookshop in 1990.

Products/Services:

Literature, Poetry, Children’s Books, Novels, Coffee Table Books, Travel Guides, Literary Journals, Reference Books, Picture Books, Self-Published Works, Poetry Chapbooks, and rare books, new and secondhand books, small selection of CDs (audio books and local musicians’ CDs) and stationary (cards, postcards, calendars, diaries, and notebooks – featuring a good selection of the Moleskine range)

LOCATION:

Address: 22 Salamanca Square, Hobart TAS 7004
Phone: (03) 6223 1803
Website: www.hobartbookshop.com.au

REVIEWS:

“Stumbled across this lovely store which is housed in a beautiful sandstone building. Really great selection of books. Also the staff member who served me offered to wrap the book when I mentioned it was a gift. He took the time to wrap it beautifully. Such lovely service!” – K Smith

Fullers Bookshop

Fullers Bookshop is an award-winning independent booksellers, open seven days a week and replete with café. Masterful recommenders, curious readers, eccentrically knowledgeable, community proud and 90-odd years young. It is open 7 bookish days a week!

Products/Services:

All books, Books of the Month, Featured Titles, Forthcoming Books, Fullers Publishing, New Releases, Reading Group, Tasmanian Books, Fullers Gift Voucher, Events, Cafe

LOCATION:

Address: 131 Collins St, Hobart TAS 7000
Phone: (03) 6234 3800
Website: www.fullersbookshop.com.au

REVIEWS:

“Brilliant bookstore in the heart of Hobart.
This place is full of atmosphere….I felt slightly as though I’d stepped back in time.
Excellent old fashioned service given by people that know their trade
Out the back of store is a fantastic cafe with a great selection of foods and drinks. They make a fine coffee here.
Looking forward to returning to this business when next in Hobart.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐” – Robert Wilson

Dymocks Hobart

Dymocks Hobart is lead by a highly qualified team of staff, Ian and Kate Campbell, who are all readers with the same passion for books as themselves.

With a broad and eclectic customer based, they specialize in Children’s books for all ages, craft, cooking and history and are known throughout the island as the one store where the destination is only the beginning of a wonderful book buying experience.

Products/Services:

Best Sellers, New Releases, Coming Soon, Promotions, Top 101, Kids Top 51, Fiction (Award Winning, Modern Literature, Crime & Mystery, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult), Non Fiction, Popula Ficton, Crime, Food & Drink, Children’s Books

LOCATION:

Address: Centrepoint Shopping Centre, shop 206/207 level/2, 70 Murray St, Hobart TAS 7000
Phone: (03) 6231 6656
Website: www.dymocks.com.au

REVIEWS:

“Great bookshop located in Centrepoint Shopping Centre, varied selection of books and if they don’t have it they’ll order it in for you.” – Rosalie Yeo