Nanjing Provincial Library is a truly impressive building; an eight-storey wonder of architecture, gracing the landscape with a distinctly contemporary look.
Inside, there is a reasonably impressive selection of English books (since this is an English website we will just focus on them – the selection of Chinese books is absolutely vast). There are large sections on philosophy, science, sociology, leadership/management and architecture/interior design. Then there is the fiction section, which is mainly rows and rows of The Novels That Time Forgot, but there are a few gems; just go hunting.
On the third floor you will find the periodical section, which has decent collections of Time, Newsweek, Readers Digest, Realms of Fantasy, Popular Science, Travel Weekly, Der Spiegel and Stern (two German magazines), Elektor and Stuff.
English website – http://www.jslib.org.cn/pub/njlib/Jslib_englishversion2012/
