# Berlin | Places to Wander Canonical: https://artist.fyi/places/berlin/ Publisher: The Corporate Artist (artist.fyi) Issue: Places to Wander, Issue 001. Published 2026-09-13. Three independent bookshops worth finding in person. If you're looking for the best independent bookshops in Berlin, Places to Wander's edited guide includes Dussmann English Bookshop in Friedrichstraße, Curious Fox in Kreuzberg and do you read me?! in Mitte. Explore the selected shops below, with neighborhood context, drawings and links to each shop's own website. The guide is edited, not numerically ranked. ## Selected bookshops ### Dussmann English Bookshop Five floors and around a hundred thousand books, open since 1997 on Friedrichstraße, with an English bookshop inside and staff the store calls Kultivist:innen. - Neighborhood: Friedrichstraße - Specialty: English-language books · Literature · Ideas - Address: Friedrichstraße 90, 10117 Berlin, Germany - Official site: https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/en/english-bookshop - Entry: https://artist.fyi/places/berlin/#dussmann - Illustration: https://artist.fyi/places/assets/dussmann__marker__2026-09-13__v22.webp - Founded: 1997 Inside the much larger KulturKaufhaus, the English Bookshop gives you a place to begin. Follow a subject through its shelves, then try an adjacent one. Sometimes a useful new thought starts with a very small change of direction. Follow a subject through its shelves, then take one step sideways. ### Curious Fox Opened in 2013 by two Irish founders, moved to Kreuzberg in 2022, and keeps Bloomsday every June. - Neighborhood: Kreuzberg - Type: New and used - Specialty: English-language books · New and used · Poetry - Address: Lausitzer Platz 17, 10997 Berlin, Germany - Official site: https://curiousfoxbooks.com/about/ - Entry: https://artist.fyi/places/berlin/#curiousfox - Illustration: https://artist.fyi/places/assets/curiousfox__marker__2026-09-12__v21.webp - Founded: 2013 New books and books with a previous reader share the invitation at Curious Fox. Its Kreuzberg shop brings English-language reading to Lausitzer Platz. There is no need to make every choice productive. A good novel is reason enough. Buy the novel. Don't write down why. ### do you read me?! Magazines from everywhere, with a Japanese section, in Mitte. - Neighborhood: Mitte - Specialty: Magazines · Art · Design · Contemporary culture - Address: Auguststraße 28, 10117 Berlin, Germany - Official site: https://doyoureadme.de/ - Entry: https://artist.fyi/places/berlin/#doyouread - Illustration: https://artist.fyi/places/assets/doyouread__marker__2026-09-12__v21.webp - The Detour: this issue's editorial detour The question above the door is a fair one. do you read me?! gathers magazines and books that make you pay attention to publishing itself. Our detour is for the working eye: see what a small magazine can do with an idea, a sequence and a few well-chosen pages. ## Questions readers ask ### What are some of the best independent bookshops in Berlin? Places to Wander's edited selection includes Dussmann English Bookshop, Curious Fox and do you read me?!. The guide is not numerically ranked. Each entry explains why the shop is included and links to the shop's own website. ### What is The Detour in the Berlin issue? do you read me?! in Mitte. Magazines from everywhere, with a Japanese section, in Mitte. The Detour is an editorial designation, not a ranking. ### Are there specialist bookshops in Berlin? The guide includes Curious Fox, which focuses on english-language books, new and used, poetry and do you read me?!, which focuses on magazines, art, design, contemporary culture. These are selections from the issue, not a complete directory of every specialist shop in the city. ### Does the guide include used or rare bookshops? Yes. Curious Fox (new and used). Used, antiquarian and rare books are not interchangeable labels; this guide uses each description only where the shop's entry supports it. ### Is there a map of the featured bookshops? Yes. The Berlin issue includes a map and shop index. Select a shop to open its entry, then use the shop's official link for visiting details. The illustrated map is an orientation aid, not a turn-by-turn route. ## About this guide Places to Wander is an editorial field guide from The Corporate Artist to independent bookstores and bookshops worth finding in person. We look for independent shops with a point of view: exceptional selection, a meaningful specialty, a room worth experiencing, a role in its neighborhood, or the possibility of finding something you did not arrive looking for. The guides are edited, not numerically ranked. A bookstore does not have to stock The Corporate Artist to be included. A field guide from Morgan Sage Norman, author of The Corporate Artist, a book about creativity at work. Method and FAQ: https://artist.fyi/places/about.md · All cities: https://artist.fyi/places/index.md · Reading Room: https://artist.fyi/reading-room