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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 40 book, music and video shops
Best book, music and video shops in Delhi
The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Delhi, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Oxford Bookstore
N 81
286 m from Barakhamba Road metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.361, percentile 100 of 40
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2
Ramakrishna Mission Bookstall
R K Ashram Marg
113 m from Ramakrishna Ashram Marg metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.330, percentile 97.44 of 40
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3
Midland The Book Shop
Shop No. 20 & 24 Aurbindo Place Market Haus Khas
134 m from Hauz Khas metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.278, percentile 94.87 of 40
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4
Bahrisons Booksellers
Flat no, Flat no 65, Second Floor, 6, Inner Lane
295 m from Khan Market metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.277, percentile 92.31 of 40
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5
May Day Bookstore
2254/2A, Ground Floor
556 m from Shadipur metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.263, percentile 89.74 of 40
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6
Avance Adcomm
E-44/3, Ist Floor, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-II
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.209, percentile 87.18 of 40
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7
Bookhive India
Cb-349, Ring Road, Naraina
135 m from Naraina Vihar metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.209, percentile 84.62 of 40
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8
KRB Stationers
Flat No G2 Plot, no 54
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.204, percentile 82.05 of 40
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9
Al-Balagh Publications
M-85, Abul Fazal Enclave Rd
648 m from Jasola Vihar Shaheen Bagh metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.115, percentile 79.49 of 40
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10
All Time Offset Printers
F-406, Sector -63, Near F Block Water Tank
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.114, percentile 76.92 of 40
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).