Good bookshop with lots of stuff on Rio with great cafe/good selection of records on 1st floor.

Rua Visconde de Pirajá, 462 A Rio de Janeiro - Ipanema Tel.: 22875157

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Some people are going to groan at the name, but bear with it. If you are young at heart and looking for a variety of fun things to do in Rio, you could do worse than pick up the "Rio for Partiers" guide. It's a little bit like this site - crammed full of tips, and just the thing to turn to if you are wondering "what to do next" in Rio.

It's not the "club 18-30"-ish guide that it seems from the title. I'd recommend at least having a look at it in a bookshop - many of the places in it were things which Cariocas recommended to me anyway.

www.rioforpartiers.com/ (I've got no affilition, in case you're wondering)

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(Also translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner.) Or anything else by Machado de Assis, Brazil’s greatest novelist. He wrote at the end of the 19th century, when Rio was the capital of a newly declared republic. His prose is so witty and insightful it’s an absolute delight to read.

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The best bookshop in Rio, albeit quite expensive, although you may pick up a bargain since they have a huge and old stock. They're very strong in the humanities and have a separate literature/travel shop opposite. Note, you won't find this unless you look for it. You have to find a big office block with Marques do Herval written on it on the block of Rio Branco after the Biblioteca Nacional (coming from Cinelandia). Go into this and then down a spiral ramp and turn left into a corridor.

MATRIZ Av. Rio Branco, nº 185 Ed. Marquês do Herval - Subsolo - Lojas 2,3,4 e 9 Centro - Rio de Janeiro CEP: 20045-900 Tel: |21| 2533.2237 Fax: |21| 2533.1277

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