Book lion

Book lion

Concept:

Knyzhkovy Lev is a bookstore, sometimes called a shop around the corner: a cozy space with regular customers, one to another, that is.

The first Book Lion opened in 2016 in Lviv, and the bookstore project began to be developed in 2014. (Those were difficult times.) The first Kyiv bookstore opened in the summer of 2022. (And we once thought that 2016 was not an easy year, you can imagine!) And the first Lviv bookstore and the current opening of a store in Kyiv was not an eccentric decision, as it might seem; they became a kind of self-saving action and a way to stabilize the mental state. In times when you need to hold on to something, it is not the worst option to hold on to expand
something that makes you happy, to a book, say, to a team that shares your values, to your people who become guests of the establishment. It's called "complicity," and that's what Book Lion is about.

It is obvious that the Lviv and Kyiv bookstores will be somewhat similar, after all, the same people work on them. But it will be a bookstore in the hometown, so it obliges even more. The owners of Knyzhkovo Lev - Kyivans - dreamed of a bookstore from childhood, of a place that does not exhaust you, but satiates you. Now childhood dreams are being realized reactively. It's really easy: do good to your guests when you're good to yourself. Everything is risky and unpredictable, of course. But "not in time" for such a thing does not happen: it is very easy to lose something good in such terrible times, but try to save it. Our goal is to create a space that will intellectually and emotionally stimulate people who are ready to become a community.

You can read "books", "coffee" and "wine" in our showcase. Have you already thought about which books go well with strong coffee, and which ones require a glass of light wine? And we know the answer: in the morning with any book you need coffee to stimulate your thoughts, in the evening you need wine with a book to suppress your imagination. So, you can spend a whole fascinating day with us - from morning to evening.

Books in Knyzhkovy Levov are not a random set, not an endless line of online bookstores. We consciously create a collection that would suit the advanced reader. It's like someone's home library has suddenly grown a little bit. There are favorite books of childhood and current novelties, there are books to turn on, and there are books to give a tired brain a little rest, there are those with small print and a hundred links, and there are those where you can just stick in pictures, there is even guilty pleasure that you usually hide it deep in a drawer from prying eyes. You will find something to suit your mood, we guarantee. The right book at the right time is one of the ways to take care of yourself, or rather, let us take care of you.

Two doors lead to our shop. You walk into one of them: you see shelves with lovingly selected books (one of them will definitely be yours), you smell the smell of fresh hot coffee. You go in at 2:00 p.m.: you see a corner where a sommelier and a barista are working their magic, and while they are working for you, you will definitely notice a book on the shelf. Obviously, both doors lead to the Book Lion.