I love Hodges! I was first introduced to it last year for my textbooks, and the proximity to Trinity meant that I was always there. It's quiet, large, and well organised. The staff is very helpful and knowledgeable. I had to order in a book recently- it arrived quickly and I was conveniently notified by text. Smooth service! Unfortunately, it is a bit expensive. I have to admit I'd probably check for my desired book in the secondhand section of Chapters first, and then buy at Hodges if necessary. Either way, I love coming in here for a browse! read more

Dawson Street has been the mecca for Dublin book buyers for as long as I can remember. It once housed Forbidden Planet, Eason-Hanna as well as Waterstones and Hodges Figgis (both owned by HMV). Hodges Figgis, famously mentioned in Ulysses, is reportedly the largest bookstore in Ireland and stocks 60,000 titles (approx). Specialising in Irish related books, you can spend some comfortable hours between the bargain books basement and the three floors above. It is not always the most cost effective store but it is competitively priced for larger releases and bestsellers. The staff seem to stick to their own areas of interest and each have more than a working knowledge of what books are coming out, been discussed and what is on the shelf (and where). My favourite service in Hodges Figgis is their dedication to finding a book if it's not shelved - doesn't sound like much, but it is surprising how few stores are really interested in getting a book for one customer. The shop is vast and it is easy to get overwhelmed on your first visit but if you have a few hours to spare Hodges Figgis is one place to watch time pass by. read more

The front windows of Hodges Figges are laden with books currently on Trinity student's reading lists. Situated only a 5-minute walk from the Nassau Street entrance to Trinity College this bookshop is the unendorsed and therefore unofficial bookshop for the university yet owing to its location, magnitude and versatile stockpile of books it is the first port of call for most Trinity students. The university gives the shop copies of the reading lists each term so they can pre-order stock and avoid student's having to go elsewhere. This affords the shop an extensive and appealing range of hardbacks and paperbacks alike. Being the unofficial cohort to a university the store contains everything from scientific textbooks, 2 tonne dictionaries, 21st century Scottish Literature, as well as the thorny world of medieval prose. The shop does exude a very rich atmosphere and every time I go in I feel awakened by the great versatility of literature able to be retrieved. NB/ It was founded in the 18th century (1768) and is mentioned in passing in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. (The shop has moved at least three times in the last hundred years, and the premises mentioned in Ulysses are now occupied by Waterstone's, almost directly opposite the present location.) read more

My favourite bookshop and one of my favourite spots in Dublin. Hodges Figgis is a massive shop that has most books you could look for. The 3 or so floors are a utopia for book lovers and I adore browsing around the shop anytime I can. The prices are not the cheapest or the most expensive but their loyalty card system is amazing and really adds up to your savings and I always feel encouraged to spend money here to get my €10 off! I have found the staff here to be so immensely friendly and helpful. They are always full of conversation and seem to care about you. They also appear to care for their jobs as they all know what they're talking about and they are educated in their the books they sell. Absolutely adore this bookshop and am always delighted to give it a visit! Would recommend to everyone! read more

Lovely big book store. I used to prefer Waterstones when it was there as i loved the layout. However they have a great selection of books and lots of stuff for things I am interested in such as travel and cookery. You could easily spend a whole day here as it covers a couple of floors. read more

The bargain basement here is one of Dublin's best kept secrets!This place has just EVERYTHING! Check out the extensive range of PG Wodehouse books, the perfect read for a summer's afternoon! It's a pity they don't have a cafe but nip next door to Lemon for a caffeine fix! read more

Academia central. Where to get all kinds of literary bits and pieces, textbooks, history, languages, science and psychology... Some popular fiction, travel books etc. but mostly academic or enthusiast oriented stock. Helpful staff who'll order in anything they don't have in stock (takes two weeks usually). read more

Not sure what all the fuss is about, this is among the most generic 'great book stores' among 'Great bookstores' of the world -- every major city's got one. Try Waterstones in the UK, exact same, except atleast in some college branches in the second hand section you'll find reams of incredible intricate titles... (the Bloomsbury branch in London, Oxford the same). Again they've a couple of so called 'literary' events on par with the dustier rackets in the area, say Bewleys on Grafton St., but its hardly burgeoning with beat writers, not sure you'd catch anything close in there. Sure, if your the type that wants to pop out and get the Cambridge Companion to Kant, even if a little overpriced, then its good for that. Look at which ever way you want, its not in the 5 star league of 'Great Book stores'. read more

It's one of my favourite bookshop and i highly recommend it. Although I am writing this review on an iPad and I am a relatively new consumer of ebooks, I am confident that you can't replace the great feeling bookshops and physical books provide. Even though I am a big consumer of online information, there will always be a place for physical books which you flick through, read, admire, enjoy the tactile sensation of the paper, the type face, images, the smell of the paper and the ink. iBooks and the kindle reader provide the text and a handy way to buy and I will consume but I don't think ill ever be ready to dump my books and my time in Hodges Figgis. read more

This is the magical land of books in Dublin (on the South side anyway, Chapters rules the North side). Its a pleasure to wander in here and browse away. They even have seats sprinkled around the place so you can sit and peruse guilt free. With beautiful window displays & a vast array, Dublin would be a lesser city without HF. Great for university books as well. They also will order in any book you want & staff are very helpful. The bargain basement downstairs is great for the classics & for cookbooks. If you're a book lover then you will love HF. read more

Wade through all those latte drinking yobbos and find yourself the best bargain basement bookstore on the southside...

When the zombie apocalypse finally does come, and by god it does feel long overdue, this is where I'm going to see it out. While the rest of you are busy fighting a chaotic battle for survival I'll be holed up in here using the vast resources to learn how to rebuild society and in the evenings when I get bored I have enough fiction here to keep me going for several lifetimes. Ever wanted to know how to build your own gyrocopter? Grow your own luminous grass? Play the guitar with your feet? If these things are possible then somewhere in the depths of Hodges Figgis there's a book that will tell you how to do it. Covering three floors it must be the biggest bookshop in the country? Whatever you're interested in they will have an extensive selection to peruse. Like many other people I have often misplaced what I thought was a few minutes in here to realise when I leave that it is in fact tomorrow. I used to come in here around October every year when I was in Trinity to pick up a few textbooks for the academic year. It seems that university textbooks these days have become a rather difficult thing to get hold of. Of course if you're studying English literature or Classics most bookshops will have those you need but for academic texts on things like science, engineering or maths you have to go to the internet or here. The really handy thing is that they know what books the various courses are using in Trinity so they tend to have them. Science, specifically biology, was always what I was looking for but I know they have extensive sections on law, economics and business as well. If you're looking for a college book I'd recommend checking here before going to Amazon. The downstairs section is a bargain basement and it can be fun to come down here and take a look around. I've often found books that I wouldn't normally look at. I mean am I really all that interested in An Economic History of Northern China 1870 - 1939? Probably not all that much, actually maybe a little, but for 50c I can't really go all that wrong! One final point of note is that as the zombie hordes struggle forth to crack open your brains and feast on the warm goo inside someone will finally find a use for Jordan's biography; barricading the door! read more

Great auld spot. Spent manys the hour rooting through the best selection of books in Dublin. I keep thinking, "i've a little time to kill, I'll just have a look around while I'm waiting for a bus, and then BANG I've added five new books to the collection" read more

First off I'll mention that I'm not into books a whole lot, thus I don't visit many book stores. Hodges Figgis is a large, well stocked book retailer in the heart of Dublin city centre. Being a photography student the only section I ever look at is the photography section, which is well stocked with an array of photo books from many of the leading photographers both past and present. But as with most physical stores, Hodges Figgis can't compete with the likes of Amazon or the Book Depository for price. Saying that, the atmosphere is much nicer and relaxed than Easons on O'Connell Street and many other Dublin bookstores. read more

best bookshop in dublin most comprehensive collection they have everything and the staff know their stuff this place is second only to internet shopping for dublin read more

Awesome bookstore, extremely well stocked, I found everything that came to mind. One of the cashiers even let me use the employee restrooms which was very kind speaking that I just came from Kehoe's. I could easily spend hours at a time here. read more

Easily the best bookshop in Dublin - maybe even Ireland! Floors and floors of books from every category. Always have what I'm looking for, and if they don't have it in stock they'll order it in ASAP. Check it out! read more

Rang on two separate occasions to check the availability of a books, both times they said they would check and took my name and number to ring me back and on both occasions they failed to do so.. Very poor read more

Good bookshop, they are always able to order in the unusual kinds of books that I read and that can't be ordered anywhere else.

Great bookstore with a brilliant selection and lots of lovely helpful staff. They have a discount section too which is always worth a look. They have a loyalty scheme so for every €10 you spend you get a stamp and when you have ten stamps you get €10 off your next purchase! I love browsing here and always find something interesting. read more

From the outside, Hodges Figgis looks like a tiny bookstore with an amazing person in charge of displays. But go inside and you'll find a massive store filled to brim with anything you can find. Think of a big Barnes & Nobles in the states, and this is it, but better. This is truly a book lover's dream. read more

Books on 3 floors! Great place to go a roam for interesting tomes of knowledge. I can hardly go in here without leaving with 2-3 tomes for my already overflowing arch of a bookshelf. Staff is really helpful and will get you the wise words on paper that they aren´t stocking at the moment. read more

This is one of the best bookstores I've ever been in and I've been to bookstores all over the world! There are over three floors which means lots of books! I could spend hours here, there are some seats where you can read a couple of chapters before you commit to purchasing a book! It is so organized here, if you can't find a book here, it probably doesn't exist. No trip to Dublin is complete until you come here. They even have a loyalty card, if you spend 100 euros here, you'll get 10 euros off your next purchase! Super cool if you're a local! It's within walking distance to a lot of touristy places as well. This is how a bookstore should be! read more

The best bookstore in Dublin. Four floors of books on almost any possible subject area. In the basement you have bargain books, novels are on the ground floor and my favourite: travel books in the first floor (along with other favourites such as language books, sociology, history, politics...). Anything you need you'll find in here and if not, they'll order it. They have a loyalty card system going where you get stamps for every €10 you spend and once you have collected eight stamps, you get €10 off your next purchase. Prices are reasonably low as well. read more

Hodges Figgis has a fantastic selection of books and the staff are top class. They have ordered a pile of books for me in recent weeks and have been very helpful. Best of all, it feels like a traditional bookshop should - all creaky floors and nooks and crannies. Incidentally it is great to see, from the other reviews, that so many people still treasure books and bookshops. read more

Love this shop. The staff are so friendly and knowledgeable. I still remember going in once and asking for an obscure book - there was a queue for the till, so the staff member pointed and said "you see the third bookcase on the left, fourth shelf from the top, the book with the yellow spine. That's it. Personally, I think his earlier book is better, but that one is good, too" You could lose hours here. The only thing I think they could really consider would be a "click and collect" online service. That way I would know that books I need are in stock and also I'd get to browse the store. read more

I don't see the fascination with this store. It's a decent bookshop in parts, the fiction section is good. The loyalty card scheme is a good idea but a bit rich, you'd have to spend 100 euro to get a 10 euro discount. This is up from when it used to be 80 euro for a 10 off. Thanks guys. Heard of the recession lately have we? While some of the staff are very nice, pleasant and do seem to go the extra mile to help you even if you've scant info on a book, the older ones there seem to be just waiting for retirement, are not helpful at all and have real sour puss faces. I remember asking on one floor for help and was asked if I'd looked at the shelf because "everything we have is there" and then that was it. That was helpful, thanks! The shop could do with a cafe, I definitely remember there being one there before, and a lift down to the bargain section in the basement. There is no way to get a buggy or pram down those stairs safely. They could also fix the air conditioning, I remember once collecting a book upstairs and it was like a sauna. Hardly the type of environment you want to browse through books in! They should do second hand books too I think but overall I couldn't care, I'm ordering from Amazon from now on. read more

Would go to Hodges everyday if it didn't mean I spent money! It's inevitable, I absolutely love it - its history is incredible. Furthermore, they have almost any book one might want, and if not the staff are ready to help order or find something similar. read more

To be perfectly honest, I do most of my book shopping online, yes it is convenient and there are some great bargains to be had. However, I still frequent this bookstore and have for at least the last 18 years. The reason is simple, you can find yourself brewing for hours in book sections that you would never think of looking in online. It's a great place to relax also, dawsotn street is a goosed location for this type of bookstore as you can relax in any number of cafe's and browse through your purchases, well worth a visit. read more

Probably my favourite bookshop in Dublin. Floors and floors of books, big wide floors, a big wide staircase, and a small entrance at the back end of the bookshop which makes me feel like I'm slipping into a book version of Narnia. I could settle down in a corner of this bookshop and take root, flipping through the surrounding books forever. The cafe on the top floor is much missed but the big squashy black comfy chairs are a welcome replacement. Hurray for H&F! read more

I stumbled upon this store while in Dublin in 1998 and for all the reasons mentioned - selection and variety, helpfulness, interest, ability to get lost for a few hours, I have returned on subsequent visits. It is one of the "must sees" that I mention for bookie friends who are visiting Dublin. read more

A wonderful book shop. It's impossible to enter without buying at least one book before you leave. The staff are very knowledgeably. I dare you to see if you cannt find the book you're looking for here! read more

This is my favorite bookstore in Dublin. The selection is excellent and the staff are always helpful and kind, too.

"memoirs of the last scottish werewolf" by scottish author kenneth moir. a howlingly good novel..!..on sale amazon kindle books..pick it up and you will never put it down..at least until the next full moon. nominated best scottish book that influenced your life jan 2014 scottish television..scottish author kenneth moir said.."yes indeed hodges figgis is top shelf..and worthy of 5 stars.." read more

waited a while to be served and staff were not very helpful. people sitting on stairs blocking use of stairs, staff member did not ask them to at least move to one side. read more