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2025 Bookshop Tour


  • The Open Book 201 Ponsonby Road Auckland, Auckland, 1011 New Zealand (map)

Visit the bookshops of Auckland between the 3rd and 11th of October for your chance to win $350 in bookshop tokens! (2 prizes to be won),

Visit at least two stores and collect a stamp with your purchase at each store (no minimum spend). Every additional stamp gives you another entry into our grand prize draw.

Participating bookstores include:
- The Open Book (that’s us!)
- Unity Books Auckland
- Time Out Bookstore
- The Women’s Bookshop
- The Booklover Bookshop
- Paradox Books
- Books on High
- Matakana Village Books
- Poppies Howick
- Enamoured Books
- Onehunga Books & Stationery
- Lamplight Books
- Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop
- Dear Reader

Leave your collected stamps with the last store you visit on Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day.

Bookshop Day started in Aotearoa 10 years ago, in 2015, and is run by the Booksellers Association of New Zealand to encourage book lovers, like you, to celebrate your local bookshop.

Earlier Event: 21 September
Starling Issue Twenty Tāmaki launch party
Later Event: 11 October
October Clearance Sale