Lüders Buchhandlung & Antiquariat demonstrates what is missing from online shopping: the individual charm of lovingly managed retail stores. On rainy days, you can quickly forget the time when exploring the bulging bookshelves. The long-standing employees are available to help with advice and assistance in the search for the right reading. Your new favourite book? Only a flick of the wrist away!

A visit to the Felix Jud bookstore is like a journey back in time. Over the last few decades, this historical antiquarian bookshop has established itself as a cultural institution in the centre of Hamburg. On sale are historical and modern, entertaining and educational works. Readings and book presentations take place at regular intervals in the holy halls of Felix Juds, the founder of the bookshop.

Not a bookshop in the classic sense, but rather a collection point for sorted out favourite books: the book flea market at the Hühnerposten. From Monday to Friday, bookworms can browse through the colourful range on offer. Books of all genres and subject areas cost one euro. The proceeds go to the non-profit project "Medienboten", a voluntary media delivery service for people with limited mobility.

The Schlachthofpassage in the Karolinenviertel is home to this bookstore jewel: Cohen + Dobernigg. The bookstore's unmistakable feature is the ring-shaped shelving, which takes up almost the entire space and offers plenty of room for new and old literature classics. The staff are on hand to advise you on your search for your new favourite book. Book recommendations like mass goods? Not at Cohen + Dobernigg. All books are hand-picked.

The bookstore Strips & Stories proves that comics are not just for children. The shop is all about graphic novels. In the shop window you will find classics like "Tintin" and new releases of modern narrators. Many Hamburg-based illustrators and authors are also represented with their works. Immerse yourself in a world full of speech bubbles and let yourself be enchanted by the drawn stories!

Ideal location: the Samtleben bookshop is located in the Literaturhaus Hamburg. Here you can browse to your heart's content - especially fiction lovers will get their money's worth. In addition to current bestsellers, the bookstore also convinces with its selection of books outside of the mainstream. A special focus is on classical literature, poetry, but also children's and picture books.

The stories of Adler Olsen and Henning Mankell lure their readers into the vastness of the North and make them forget reality with excitement. If you can't get enough of Scandinavian crime novels, you've come to Jussi's Crime Book Café. In addition to crime novels, the range also includes the most beautiful stories by Astrid Lindgren and many others. Can't wait to devour your new book? The Krimi-Café invites you to Fika with coffee and cake. Lean back and immerse yourself in the stories of the Scandinavians.

A little art gallery, a touch of museum and a pinch of library, and stories! The bookshop is ready. Here every book is honoured as a work of art. The documents stand with the cover facing forward and framed on the walls of the bookshop. The local assortment contains about 7000 titles. Chances are good that your new favourite book is hidden among them.

Do you dream of being locked up alone in a bookstore and browsing through the books to your heart's content? The Christiansen bookshop in Ottensen makes this dream come true. The "AusleseZeit" can be booked for groups of two to ten people and guarantees three undisturbed hours in book heaven. Those who prefer to look around in daylight are welcome in the heart of Altona from Monday to Saturday.

From a children's bookstore to a meeting place for people interested in politics: the Schanzenbuch. The bookshop reflects the restructuring of the Schanzenviertel like no other. What once began as a shop for children's and educational books has expanded at the end of the 1980s into a contact point for students, left-wing projects and collectives. The bookshop at the Schulterblatt meets the demand for political and socially relevant literature. One crossroads further on, the mother shop "Die Druckerei" continues to offer books and toys for its young readers.