I visited Zurich last year and found Calligrame while I was walking through the Old Town. I fell…read morein love immediately. The owner is wonderful and sweet. Between English and my very poor French and Swiss German, she and I were able to communicate just fine. In my apartment in California, I have taped to my wall several postcards that I bought from Calligrame. I miss the store a lot and look forward to visiting again when I return to Zurich.

Whenever I've been depressed or sad or mad I go here and all those stupid feelings go away. And…read morethen I'm just happy. It's just a regular book store, but something about Orell Fussli is special. Maybe because the books are in German, and it's multiple stories and fun to ride the elevator. Maybe it's because there are nice couches around to sit and read the books, or maybe because there's a Starbucks too so you can have a coffee while you're enjoying your book. I don't know, but I love it. When things were a bit rough a month ago I'd just come here, and everything bad would go away. Orell Fussli is the perfect medicine. :) It's also right in the middle of Zurich. If you're wanting an English book store there's another Orell Fussli English down the street. But I'm so over English books, those were so yesterday. just kidding I've bought a few things from here. The Lion King DVD in German, a German cook book, a calendar, and a few cards. It's really a lovely store. Ich liebe Orell Fussli. Ich finde diese Ort warm und prima. Die Bucher sind nett und die Leute auch. Ich komme hier wenn ich traurig bin und dann bin glucklich ich. Ich komme hier wenn ich glucklick auch bin. Ich bin glucklich wenn ich hier bin. :D

I really like Orell Füssli. It is the biggest store they have @St. Annahof. A really good selection…read moreof books and good personal are working there which could give you good advise. Especially for christmas gifs or just for a gift during year I like to check out this place from time to time and to spend some time in this really great store. Check it out...

While tripping around Kreis 3 yesterday, I came across this tidy, little English-language bookshop…read more pile of books is comprised of three rooms connected by wide corridor, a fourth room is staff-only. If I didn't know any better, then I'd say that the space may have been converted from a house many moons ago. From the street, one enters into the fiction room. Directly next to the fiction area seemed to be a room consisting mostly of biography and music, and beyond both of those front spaces is the used book room at the back of the shop. There are tables set-up in each space with book displays, antique books are tucked here and there, and, in the used book area, stands a chair for one to plop down in while thumbing through second-hand reads. pile of books reminds me of independent bookshops in uni-towns across the US, and I love it. If one is keen on finding both new and used books, both bestseller and obscure titles, then a visit to POB is worth one's time. POB also holds singer/songwriter musical events either out front during warmer months, or, in the winter season, in one of the front rooms of the book shop. Note: POB is closed from 13.00-15.00 Monday through Friday.

From the owner: English language bookstore. literary fiction - nonfiction -…read morecrime - children's books

You need it? They probably have it. Great place for detailed (1:25000) walking maps of Zürich…read moreKanton, which is what I was looking for. Not cheap at 30CH, but it is better than using Google Maps to really understand geographical relationships. Very accommodating staff, especially when our US chipped card kept asking for a pin, which it doesn't have!