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There has always been the possibility of buying Books in the English language in Berlin.
Years ago it was Marga Schoeller in Knesebeck Strasse, Charlottenburg.  So long as you were looking for literature you would find something to take away with you.

Then in the 90s FNAC opened an enormous book shop on the corner of Ranke Strasse. It was great, you could browse the bestsellers and pick up some U-Bahn reading.

These days the city of Berlin has book shops galore, many of them are second-hand and full of English language books of both Literature and bestseller door-stoppers to keep you awake at night.

Prices vary on second hand stuff, it’s not like the old days when people were happy to get rid of old things and sell it off for a few pennies. More like just a few pennies knocked off the retail price on a book that has really done the rounds and been read ten times.

1. St. Georges Book Shop in Prenzlauer Berg was founded in 2003 by two brothers, Paul and Daniel.

They receive regular shipments of used books books from the U.K. and the U.S.A. which keeps their shelves truly bulging with stock. My own visits have always been a positive experience in that I’ll be looking for a particular title and it’ll be there. That’s always a reason to keep coming back for more.

St.Georges is open Monday till Saturday 11 a.m. till 8 p.m.  Saturdays 5 p.m.

There are really too many book shops to mention on one page, but if you wander through the streets of Berlin you are bound to come across a book shop which will have English language books stacked on the shelves somewhere.

New books in English can be found at Dussman in Friedrich Strasse,90. Found at the corner of Unter den Linden.

2.Dussman is a German bookshop with several floors. The ground floor houses the English Book Shop which can be found at the very back of the shop on the right. Two floors and a great selection of books to get lost in, you could spend time there browsing the different sections of fiction and non-fiction books.

3.Take a trip to Kruezberg and wander along the Riemannstraße to door number 7 and you’ll end up in Another Country. A wonderful and friendly labyrinth of paperbacks. Two rooms full of some of the finest stories ever written.

Not much in the way of trash-books because the owner is choosy about wasting shelf space with the latest bestsellers. Yet, you’ll find plenty of modern fiction by well known authors who know how to tell a good story.

4.Walk to the end of Riemann Strasse and turn right towards Bergman Strasse and you’ll find Hammet Bookshop on the corner of Friesen Strasse. They’re all about German Krimis, but take a peek in the side room and you’ll discover a few shelves of Crime and Mystery books in English, second hand. Most books are about 3,- euros each.

Berlin is an interesting city for walking around – winter or summer it has a character that should be experienced in all seasons.

Snooping about for bookshops is fun and there’s plenty of them in Berlin. Be prepared to return home with a bag full of second hand books, there’s always something tempting to take home with you.