Best Bookshops in Kenya for Educational Books and Novels

What follows is a list of the best bookshops in Nairobi, Kenya, where you can buy educational books, Christian books, novels, drawing books, and more. Most of the bookstores listed are located in Nairobi CBD and its environs, but they offer countrywide delivery.

Textbook Centre

Textbook Centre is one of the largest bookshops that supplies stationery, schoolbooks, computer supplies, and other educational materials.

Nuria Bookstore

Nuria Bookstore is a bookshop that sells books, accessories, gift cards, games, etc. You can shop for books online or visit their physical store.

Prestige Bookshop

Prestige Bookshop is one of the best booksellers in Kenya. They sell fiction, children books, Christian books, Economics, and also Health and relationships among others.

Soma Nami

Soma Nami is a bookstore that focuses on selling African literature books. Soma Nami also has a book club where friends gather and share stories about the best books that they have read.

African Book Hub

Africanbookhub is an online bookstore that sells personal development, parenting, motivational, fiction, and christian books. Although its name depicts it as a bookstore that sells African books, most of its books are for non-African authors.

There are hundreds of bookshops in Kenya, but most of them are popular in particular towns and counties. The ones listed below are well-established with a large collection of books.

If you have written a novel that has been published and are looking for a bookstore to sell your book, consider the smaller bookshops, as the popular ones prefer selling books that are currently in demand. However, most of them do not stock self-published books.