All Oxford bookshops
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9 bookshops
City Centre · mixed
Gulp Fiction
A converted flower stall in Oxford's historic Covered Market, founded by a former Blackwell's book buyer. New and secondhand fiction shares the space with barista coffee, evening pints, author talks and a cosy upstairs reading nook.
Jericho · mixed
The Last Bookshop
A red-fronted Jericho institution of remaindered and secondhand books, with an attached café and a two-for-a-fiver table. The owners chose the street for its literary pedigree, from Jude the Obscure to Lyra's Oxford.
East Oxford · new
Caper
Half bookshop, half playroom on East Oxford's Magdalen Road. Storytime corners, cookery workshops and LEGO sessions sit among shelves of children's fiction and cookbooks.
City Centre · secondhand
Barker & Co Booksellers
A secondhand and antiquarian shop set in a 1496 coaching-inn passage off Cornmarket Street, opened in 2026 by three medievalists and a philosopher. Pocket paperbacks and four-figure first editions share the same glass cases.
City Centre · secondhand
St Philip's Books
One of the few shops in Britain built around theology and church history, in a listed medieval building opposite Christ Church Meadow with a Jacobean plasterwork ceiling. A PBFA member since 1995, with Newman first editions and Inklings rarities.
Jericho · new
Bad Girl Books
The UK's first bookshop devoted entirely to romantasy, behind a bright pink Walton Street shopfront. Special editions and sprayed-edge imports have drawn queues and national press since it opened in July 2026.
City Centre · secondhand
Arcadia
A doll's-house-sized shop run by Michael and Andrea Keirs since 1975. Vintage paperbacks, old postcards and prints are shelved to a classical soundtrack, more like a small Regency drawing room than a bookshop.
Jericho · secondhand
Curio Books and Culture
A bookshop and cultural space in the basement vault of Common Ground cafe on Little Clarendon Street, founded in 2023. Shelves of pre-loved books and good-value finds, run by one owner with a loyal following.
City Centre · new
The Last Bookshop, Magdalen Street
The second Oxford branch of The Last Bookshop, a few minutes' walk from Gloucester Green (it traded as The Book Stop until recently). Shelves of remaindered books at bargain prices, open seven days a week.