Tripoli · Lebanon · Since 1950
From the heart of Tripoli to every Lebanese bookshelf.
Titles from our shelves, school book lists for 2026–2027 open for reservation, and new books added every week.
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$5 flat delivery across Lebanon · 2–4 days · cash on delivery · 14-day returns
Publishing house, printing press and bookshop in Tripoli since 1950.
Back to School 2026–2027
Pick your school, tick the books — we handle the rest.
Every school book list, in one place. The official list for each class is already on our reservation portal — reserving takes minutes, no photocopied lists, no queues, and new schools join all the time.
- Pick your school and classThe official book list appears in full, instantly — nothing to type out yourself.
- Tick what you needKeep what is missing, drop what you own, set the copies with one tap.
- We handle the restWe prepare the order: pick up in Tripoli or $5 flat delivery anywhere in Lebanon — cash on delivery.
Find your school’s list 10% off every list until 30 Septemberlists.darelchimal.com
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Every category, and how many titles are in it.
The editors’ shelf
Titles we picked ourselves, and why.
The Brothers Hawthorne15.00 $A locked-room puzzle with a family fortune at stake. Our most-reordered YA title this year.
Son (The Giver Quartet) — Lois Lowry10.00 $The book that closes the Giver quartet — Claire searching for the son taken from her at birth. Read The Giver first.
A Brilliant Madness18.00 $Short poems and prose on love, heartbreak and self-worth, in the spare confessional style Drake built his following on.
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Find your next read among thousands of titles at Dar El Chimal.
FROM OUR SHELVES
A selection of featured titles from our shelves.
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III – R H Sin17.99 $
The Secret Garden13.00 $
SCARRED18.00 $
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept8.65 $
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society17.00 $
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings4.95 $
Norse Mythology15.95 $
ظلال المفاتيح ابراهيم نصر الله6.00 $
Big Story: Pinocchio4.50 $
Super Science: Air and Water Experiments9.95 $
The Earth Book18.00 $
Fairytale Time: The Three Little Pigs8.00 $
Classic Wizard of Oz18.00 $
Curious My Body15.00 $
First Body Book18.00 $
My Padded Board Book 100 Words5.00 $
IELTS Advantage Reading Skills Fereny Taylor Jon Wright44.00 $
Mindset for IELTS Student’s Book: Foundation77.50 $
Mindset for IELTS Student’s Book 277.50 $
Mindset for IELTS Student’s Book 277.50 $
Mindset for IELTS Student’s Book 177.50 $
Barron’s GRE Verbal Workbook17.00 $
Practice Tests for IELTS17.33 $
Complete IELTS Cambridge English Bands 4-525.25 $
Just in
- Big Story: Pinocchio4.50 $
- Super Science: Air and Water Experiments9.95 $
- The Earth Book18.00 $
- Fairytale Time: The Three Little Pigs8.00 $
- Classic Wizard of Oz18.00 $
- First Body Book18.00 $
- Curious My Body15.00 $
Jubilating Mandala Colouring Book for Adults 110.00 $- My Padded Board Book 100 Words5.00 $
World War Z16.20 $
A Discovery of Witches28.95 $
WRETCHED18.00 $
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven11.97 $
Percy Jackson Box 5 Titles45.00 $
40 اربعون احمد الشقيري16.00 $
The Lottery and Other Stories13.30 $
The Great Alone18.00 $
one piece 910.00 $
The Sellout16.00 $
The Red Sea Sharks11.00 $
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 2016.00 $
Benny Is Jealous3.00 $
Gracie Saves the Park Level 23.00 $
Mark Zuckerberg (Great Humans Who Changed the World)4.00 $
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