Cheyenne is the thinnest secondhand market on this whole directory, and it lost two bookstores between December 2025 and April 2026. Bonsai Books on Quincy Road switched its lights off for good in December 2025, and the Book Rack out on East Lincolnway, a fixture since 1984, locked up at the end of April 2026 after its owner died with no buyer in sight. What survives is five addresses: one general secondhand floor on Logan Avenue, a volunteer-run room inside the county library, a teachers' charity sale that took over a vacant mall unit for two March weekends in 2026, an indoor flea market on West Lincolnway, and a single thrift aisle out on Nationway. Five is the honest count, and pretending otherwise would waste your gas.
Nobody in this city publishes a buy price. Not one address here posts intake terms, a percentage or a payout table, which makes Cheyenne a donation economy end to end: the good paper arrives as a bequest or a garage clear-out, and the only question is which volunteer sorts it first. The library takes as much as two boxes a day off the public and routes whatever its volunteers do not shelve to ThriftBooks, so the shelf you scan on Pioneer Avenue has already been read once by somebody pricing for the same marketplace you are. The March charity sale collects donations for weeks beforehand through supermarket drop boxes across town, which is where the untouched material actually enters the system.
Two names in the local listings point at doors that stopped selling books. Phoenix Books and Music, the historic used shop of downtown Cheyenne, is still filed under rare and used books by local directories and still placed in a readers' poll whose voting closed in January 2026, but it has been trading as Downtown Vinyl since a rebrand, and Wake Up Wyoming put the change plainly on November 3, 2025: the founder cleared the print off the shelves and filled them with records. And search engines are worse than useless here, because a query for used bookstores near Cheyenne returns a Colorado list — Denver, Loveland, Fort Collins — dressed up as local results. The nearest genuinely bookish town is Laramie, an hour west along I-80, and it makes a day of its own rather than a leg of a Cheyenne loop.
Used bookstoresConstant Reader Books
1615 Logan Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001
The last general secondhand floor inside the city limits, on Logan Avenue a few blocks east of the Capitol, and the hardest entry on this page to verify because the shop runs no website and no social account of any kind. Everything below is therefore directory sourcing rather than the owner's own words: Loc8NearMe and the us-info business register both file it at this address as a second-hand book seller trading Monday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm and dark on Sunday, and both still showed that grid on a September 2, 2026 reading. Loc8NearMe's write-up, assembled out of customer reviews, adds two details worth knowing before the drive — a large share of the stock is marked at half its printed price, and the till takes cash only. Phone 307-638-8580 before setting out, because with nothing published by the store itself a call is the only verification available.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; closed Sun
Volunteer-run library book roomLaramie County Library System Book Sale Room
2200 Pioneer Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001
A year-round secondhand room the library keeps on its first floor over on Pioneer Avenue, staffed by volunteers, and the library prints its entire price ladder: softcovers $1, hardbacks $2, children's titles and paperbacks 50 cents or 3 for $1, sets of up to five books $5 and six or more $10, autographed or single old books $3, and movies, music, audiobooks and video games $1 apiece, with magazines, puzzles, VHS and cassettes given away free. The same page, which the library's own site index stamps December 23, 2025, names what the volunteers accept — adult fiction, adult nonfiction, coffee table volumes, cookbooks, children's titles, DVDs, Blu-rays, video games — and what comes straight back, including textbooks older than ten years, law and medical titles, travel and computer books older than three, and encyclopedias. One sentence on that page matters more to a reseller than any of the prices: whatever does not get shelved here is sent to ThriftBooks, sold online, and a share returned to the library. Read the room as a first pass over already-filtered donations, not as an untouched pile.
Hours : Library hours: Mon–Thu 9am–7:30pm, Fri–Sun 10am–4:30pm (Book Sale Room)Website Charity book saleDelta Kappa Gamma Used Book Sale
Frontier Mall, 1400 Dell Range Blvd, Cheyenne, WY 82009
The four heaviest days on the Cheyenne book calendar, and the venue moves every time — KGAB's Doug Randall reported on March 3, 2026 that flooding had pushed the sale into the former JoAnn Fabrics unit at the Frontier Mall, a year after the same event filled an empty Big Lots in Cheyenne Plaza on East Lincolnway. Organizer Kathie Selden gave the station both the schedule and the prices: March 7 from 8am to 5pm and March 8 from 9am to 4pm, adult hardbacks $2, paperbacks $1, kids' hardbacks $1 and kids' paperbacks two for a dollar, with unusual, old and valuable donations pulled out for a rolling silent auction that closed on March 14. The second weekend is the box sale — March 14 from 8am to 5pm, March 15 from 9am to 2pm, buy a box at the entrance for $10 and fill it however you like. Randall wrote that the sale has run in Cheyenne since 1983 with 2021 the only gap, and that receipts fund educational programs in Laramie County; no 2027 dates or venue had been posted anywhere as of early September 2026.
Hours : March 7–8 and March 14–15, 2026; 2027 dates not yet postedWebsite Where can I find cheap used books in Cheyenne?
The library sets the floor for most of the year. Laramie County Library System prices its Book Sale Room at 50 cents for children's books and paperbacks, or three for a dollar, with softcovers at $1 and hardbacks at $2, and gives away magazines, puzzles and cassettes outright. For two weekends in March 2026 the charity sale went lower still: KGAB carried the ladder on March 3 — $2 adult hardbacks, $1 paperbacks, two children's paperbacks for a dollar — and then a second weekend where $10 buys a box you fill yourself. Outside those, the Nationway Goodwill runs the cheapest ordinary shelf in town, described in a February 13, 2026 Family Destinations Guide piece as mostly costing less than a coffee.
Where do I sell used books in Cheyenne?
You mostly cannot, and there is no polite way around it. No address in this city publishes intake terms, a trade percentage or a cash payout, so selling locally means donating to the library room or to the March sale and taking the tax receipt rather than a price. That leaves selling the copies yourself, and the sorting is where the margin hides: shoot one loaded shelf, push the photo into BiblioScan, and every spine it picks up returns carrying a current open-market price, which tells the few titles that deserve a listing apart from the boxload headed for the volunteers. If you want a counter that quotes a number before you unpack, the nearest ones are in Laramie and in Colorado.
Which day is best for book hunting in Cheyenne?
Any weekday except Sunday, and the constraint is Constant Reader. The Logan Avenue shop is the only general secondhand floor in the city and both directories that carry a grid for it show Sunday closed and Monday through Saturday 10am to 6pm, so Sunday costs you the single most important stop on the map. The library room is open seven days but shuts at 4:30pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday against 7:30pm Monday to Thursday, which argues for a Monday-to-Thursday run: Pioneer Avenue first, then Logan Avenue, then Nationway. Saturday is the single day the Goodwill chain leaves blank on its own grid, so call before you plan to finish there.
When is the big library book sale in Cheyenne?
There is not one, and that is worth knowing before you plan a trip around it. Laramie County Library System does not stage a periodic Friends sale in the way most American library systems do — it runs a permanent Book Sale Room inside the main library at 2200 Pioneer Avenue instead, open the same hours as the building bar the last half hour, staffed entirely by volunteers, with every dollar going back into library programs. Donations arrive at the same counter, no more than two boxes in a day, and anything the volunteers do not put on the shelf is shipped to ThriftBooks for online sale. The nearest thing to an event is the Delta Kappa Gamma sale in March, which is a teachers' charity rather than a library one.
Are there any used book fairs in Cheyenne?
One, and it is the only date on this page worth traveling for. The Delta Kappa Gamma used book sale takes over an empty retail unit for two weekends in early March; a March 3, 2026 KGAB report by Doug Randall placed the 2026 edition in the former JoAnn Fabrics space at the Frontier Mall on Dell Range Boulevard, opening March 7 and 8, then returning March 14 and 15 as a $10 fill-a-box weekend, with a silent auction on the scarce material closing on the Saturday. He also gave it a run stretching back to 1983 broken only by the pandemic year, and a venue that changes from one edition to the next, which is exactly why the 2027 location is not something to guess at. Watch KGAB and the organizers rather than an aggregator, because nothing had been announced as of early September 2026.