We are a small village bookshop that opened this year. New and secondhand titles, a shelf of vinyl, a papelaria table, and a back room where we host readings, small talks, and the odd Sunday listening session.
LIVRARIA DA VILA is a small independent bookshop that opened in early 2026 on Avenida Roque Petroni Junior in São Paulo. The name is what we call it in Portuguese, and it means what a small village bookshop tends to be anywhere: a quiet room with more books than customers on most weekdays, and a bench by the window where nobody minds if you sit and read for a while.
The front of the shop is books. Along the side wall we keep a small selection of vinyl, mostly Brazilian and some jazz and classical, and a papelaria table with notebooks, cards, and prints from local illustrators. At the back there is a room with a few rows of folding chairs that we use for readings and cultural evenings.
Everything is chosen and shelved by the two of us who run the shop. Ask us for a recommendation and you will get an honest one. Ask us to order a title and we will try to have it in for you by the following week.
Six modest sections, all curated by hand.
Contemporary fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, art books, and a shelf of classics that keeps rotating. Every title picked in-house.
A small selection of vinyl, mostly Brazilian pop and MPB, some jazz, some classical, and a bin of used records worth looking through.
Notebooks, letter paper, pens, greeting cards, and a wall of small prints and postcards from illustrators we like.
A rack for independent presses, chapbooks, and self-published zines. We take submissions from local authors and artists.
A short shelf of used books in good condition, restocked from customers who trade them in for shop credit.
A small dedicated shelf for writers from São Paulo, including a few titles from friends who could not find a shelf anywhere else.
Author readings, once or twice a month, usually on a Thursday evening. Free and open to whoever walks in.
A monthly book club that reads whatever we choose together. A small poetry group meets on the first Wednesday.
Sunday afternoons, once in a while, we put a record on and everyone sits and listens the whole way through.
Short talks with editors, illustrators, and translators. Not lectures. More like a conversation with a drink in hand.
If you are in the neighbourhood, drop in. If a title is not on the shelf, ask us and we will do our best to bring it in.