‘Bookworm’ at 44 Chau Long street, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi, is now home to more than 30,000 book titles in foreign languages.
Despite being re-located several times, the bookstore has become a favourite destination for foreign and domestic readers (Photo: VNA)
‘Bookworm’ boasts several rooms with well-organised shelves full of all genres and types of books, from novels to books on politics, economics, arts and culture (Photo: VNA)
Books displayed at the bookstore are mostly old books in English and French (Photo: VNA)
The bookstore boasts a special corner for books introducing Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
Books on Vietnamese culture (Photo: VNA)
Readers here always treasure books and repair any damaged ones (Photo: VNA)
The bookstore opened in Hanoi in August 2001 by Australian author Pam Scott and then was bought back by Hoang Van Truong, a Vietnamese avid reader, in 2006.
Expat readers often visit ‘Bookworm’ to indulge their passion for reading when in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
‘Bookworm’ is home to over 30,000 book titles (Photo: VNA)
Anyone can find something among a huge number of books at the bookstore (Photo: VNA)
‘Bookworm’ is also a venue for exchanging new and old foreign books (Photo: VNA)
A reading festival has recently been held in Ho Chi Minh City. It is a kick-start for a series of similar programmes in other suburban districts under the goal of encouraging the reading habits.
Nearly 100,000 books will be put on show at the annual book street festival in downtown Ho Chi Minh City from February 2-8 in celebration of the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday 2019.