2 Best Places to Shop in Akureyri, Iceland

There’s an Eymundsson bookstore staffed by bibliophiles in almost every major town in Iceland, and the Akureyri location sits on one of the hot corners of town where the main high street meets the trendy Listagil street, which leads up to the church. Here you'll find all the latest titles along with a few classics, in both Icelandic and English, plus an excellent selection of magazines. Their superb in-house coffee shop is Te & Kaffi.

There’s a treasure trove of secondhand books here, with around 85% Icelandic titles and quite a few books in English, too. Among the romance novels and pulp fiction you’ll find the occasional rare classic, with some dating back to the 1700s. The owner, Olga, has been running the shop for over 30 years, but now in her 80s, she has passed the baton to a couple of charming young Brits named Stu and Ren, who run it on her behalf.