in general, most major shopping malls are home to bookstores large enough to have couches and cafés, so any random shopping outing can be rewarding in this sense - and Whether it is raining outside, the feet need a little break, or the mind is thirsty for flight, Rio has no shortage of bookstores, fused with bars, cafés and record stores, to help make of a rainy day a great day.

not bookstores, but cradles of culture, rio is rich of libraries that might offer the perfect escape for a rainy day - on this page we list all the major ones, including the Gabinete Real Português de Leitura, casa da leitura, academia brasileira de letras, parque estadual, city archives, state archives, national archives, national library, biblioteca do centro cultural banco do brasil, paulo santos, oswaldo cruz, santa teresa, parque da rocinha, bibiloteca municipal de botafogo, porto alegre, itamaraty palace library, maison de france, da cunha, da marinha, getúlio vargas, and the biblioteca publíca de niterói.