Fayetteville, Arkansas, sits at the southern end of Northwest Arkansas, and this guide runs north from City Hall on West Mountain Street through Springdale and Rogers to downtown Bentonville, roughly 21 miles away, with detours west to Tontitown and southwest to Prairie Grove. Six of the fourteen stops are in Fayetteville proper, four of them inside a 600-yard circle around City Hall and the Dickson Street strip, the other two up North College Avenue and West North Street. Springdale has three, Bentonville two, and Tontitown, Rogers and Prairie Grove one apiece. Siloam Springs, Bella Vista and Eureka Springs sit beyond the radius covered here.
Four businesses here buy books. Dickson Street Bookshop buys from walk-in sellers Monday through Saturday, settling in cash or trade credit; Once Upon a Time Books looks over boxes at its three stores and mostly settles in store credit; the Curious Booktique on College Avenue wants an emailed list of classic, antiquarian or fine-press titles before it makes an offer; and First Homeschool in Springdale emails offers on curriculum, flat amounts for cheaper books and a share of its shelf price above $5.99. The Friends shops in Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville fill their shelves with donations, and the Fayetteville library states outright that it pays nothing for the books it receives.
Used bookstoresDickson Street Bookshop
325 W Dickson St, Fayetteville, AR 72701
On West Dickson Street, in what its website calls Fayetteville's entertainment district, the shop says it carries upward of 100,000 out-of-print and secondhand volumes, filed by subject from aeronautics to zoology, and adds that several hundred fresh titles hit the shelves each week. Sellers can walk in between 10am and 2pm on any day but Sunday; the shop pays with cash or trade credit and caps each visit at four boxes or four bags. Founded in 1978, the shop got a new owner in 2024 after 46 years, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported, and on January 10, 2026 the same paper ran a story headlined on the shop finding forgotten "treasures" in books.
Hours: Sun–Thu 10am–6pm, Fri–Sat 10am–8pmWebsite Friends of the Library bookstoreFriends' Bookstore at the Fayetteville Public Library
Fayetteville Public Library, 401 W Mountain St, Fayetteville, AR 72701
The Friends of the Fayetteville Public Library keep a used bookstore on the third floor, to the right of the Mountain Street welcome desk, open through all library hours, where most items cost $2 or less and premium copies carry their own prices. Gifts of books, audiobooks and DVDs are taken at that welcome desk, and the library makes clear that no payment comes back for them. Sales happen in the Walker Community Room on that floor too: per the library calendar, one on Saturday, May 2, 2026 offered fiction, cookbooks, art, history and a large children's selection, and a premium sale of gently used and like-new books, gift wrapped for the holiday season, is on the calendar for December 5, 2026 (a Saturday), 9am to 3:30pm.
Hours: Library hours: Mon–Thu 9am–8pm, Fri–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 1pm–5pmWebsite Used bookstore and caféOnce Upon a Time Books Tontitown
1094 E Henri de Tonti Blvd, Springdale, AR 72762
In Tontitown, west of Springdale, 8.5 straight-line miles from City Hall, the flagship of Once Upon a Time Books moved to 1094 East Henri de Tonti Boulevard in early April 2026, after a 50%-off moving sale the store announced on Instagram on March 6 and a move NWA Daily reported on April 8, noting the business has been family owned since 1999. The company's site calls it its most expansive location, with an in-store café, classics, children's books, romance, comics, vinyl, DVDs and CDs, plus the Books by the Foot lots for design and decoration. To sell, phone ahead, then bring at least a box of about 30 books; store credit is the standard offer, a very nice collection that can only go for cash means contacting the store to see whether cash can be offered, and more than six boxes calls for an appointment.
Hours: Mon–Sat 9am–6pm, Sun noon–5pmWebsite Friends of the Library bookstoreThe Friendly Bookstore
1114 W Poplar Pl, Rogers, AR 72756
In Rogers, 18.7 miles due north as the crow flies, this all-volunteer store on West Poplar Place is the Friends of the Rogers Public Library's own shop. It opened in 1984 with books left over from a sale and is on its fourth address, and its donated books sit alongside games, puzzles, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes and greeting cards at bargain prices, and a reading room seats up to eight. Its website announces a two-day November sale on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, November 27 and 28, 2026, with the store shut on the Wednesday and Thursday of Thanksgiving week. Friends memberships, from $50 a year for a child to $350 for five years, take 20% off most items, and the store lists its unique books on eBay.
Hours: Tue–Sat 10am–4pmWebsite Friends of the Library bookstoreRead it Again Bookstore
Bentonville Public Library, 405 S Main St, Bentonville, AR 72712
In Bentonville, at the northern edge of this guide 21 miles from City Hall, a shop inside the South Main Street library is a volunteer operation of the Friends of the Bentonville Public Library: a typical paperback costs 50 cents, a typical hardcover $1 and CDs or DVDs 50 cents, and each child may pick one book a day from a free basket. The Friends say they sell in the fall and spring, with the odd pop-up in between, and the library calendar billed the fall 2026 round as a Kids and Holidays Edition: members from 4pm on Thursday, October 8, then the public on Friday, October 9, from 9:30am to 1pm. Cards carry a small surcharge, and the $15 individual membership comes with a $3 store gift certificate and early entry to sales.
Hours: Mon–Sat 10am–4pmWebsite Where can I find cheap used books in Fayetteville?
Go to the library Friends shops. In Prairie Grove, a Friends post of October 12, 2026 put purple-dot books at a quarter in hardcover and a dime in paperback; Read it Again in Bentonville charges 50 cents for most paperbacks and $1 for most hardcovers; and the third-floor Friends' shop at the Fayetteville Public Library tags most items at $2 or below. The Friendly Bookstore in Rogers also prices its donated stock low, and members there knock 20% off most of it.
Where do I sell used books in Fayetteville?
Dickson Street Bookshop is the walk-in buyer, with a buying window from 10am to 2pm six days a week, closed Sunday, a ceiling of four boxes or bags per trip, and cash or trade credit in return. Once Upon a Time Books wants at least a box per visit and leans toward store credit, the Curious Booktique reviews emailed lists of classics, antiquarian and fine-press books, and First Homeschool in Springdale buys curriculum too, at a flat 25 cents or $1 a book below $6 and 30% to 40% of its own price above that, with store credit worth more than the cash offer. Before loading the car, snap each shelf in BiblioScan; from one picture the app lifts out each spine and tags every title with a likely resale figure, and that sorts the copies worth your own online listing from the pile headed to a buyer's counter.
Which day is best for book hunting in Fayetteville?
Saturday. Every shop here with fixed hours is open, and the Curious Booktique usually opens in the early afternoon; the one early close is the Prairie Grove library at 1pm, so put it first. Sunday is the weakest day, with First Homeschool, the Friendly Bookstore, Read it Again and Prairie Grove all closed, and Monday still loses First Homeschool and the Friendly Bookstore.
When is the Friends of the Library sale in Fayetteville?
Each library group keeps its own calendar. The Fayetteville Friends post their sales, premium sales included, on the library's online events calendar; Bentonville's Friends sell in the spring and fall, with a members' evening before the public day; and Springdale's Friends hold what they call an annual sale over a Friday-to-Sunday weekend, ending with a bag day. Check each library's event page a few weeks ahead.