Used bookstoresMoon Palace Books
3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Half a block from the Uncles, this Longfellow corner has sold new and used together since 2012 and carries the Geek Love Cafe inside, which makes it the obvious place to sort a load before driving on. Its own front page describes the two kinds of shelf side by side, and Twin Cities Geek put it in the April 2026 Independent Bookstore Day roundup with the Babycake's Book Stack truck parked outside for the day. Secondhand is the smaller share of this floor, so plan a quick sweep rather than a long dig.
Used bookstoresThe Irreverent Bookworm
5163 Bloomington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55417
A queer and woman-owned shop down in the Nokomis end of the city, blending new titles with used across fiction, occult, children's and graphic novels. Its trade page spells out every condition, and you want them straight in your head before a box leaves the house: store credit only, never cash, at roughly 15% of a title's original cover price, with lots worked through in the order received over one to two weeks and an offer sent by text or email that you are free to decline. The want list runs to LGBTQIA+ titles, recent fiction and nonfiction, classics, witchcraft and paganism, current YA, tabletop gaming, authors of color, graphic novels, recent poetry and zines, while the refusal list rules out textbooks outright along with ex-library copies, jacketless hardcovers, magazines and Reader's Digest editions. On April 25, 2026 the first five customers through the door at noon collected a 20% coupon, which tells you how the place handles a rush.
Used bookstoresEat My Words Bookstore
201 6th St SE Suite 220, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Used and rare since 2014, now upstairs at 6th Street SE after a move out of Northeast that Twin Cities Geek logged in its April 2026 bookstore roundup. The shop bills itself as a knowledge redistribution center and keeps a curated general stock — classics, oddities, local authors and artists — with readings and open mics filling the evenings. It also runs to 8pm six days a week, which is late for a room this size.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun noon–6pmWebsite Used bookstoresJames and Mary Laurie Booksellers
933 Marquette Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55402
Downtown near Marquette and 10th, an antiquarian house holding more than 120,000 individually chosen volumes, over 30,000 classical and jazz LPs, and a gallery of old printed maps and prints, the whole thing at street level. The Marquette address is recent: Twin Cities Geek counted the move among the year's bookstore relocations in April 2026, so older directory entries will send you to the wrong block. Subjects go deep rather than broad — Americana, anthropology and archaeology, architecture and design — the profile that rewards a standing want list more than a barcode gun.
Used bookstoresOnce Upon A Crime
604 W 26th St, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Whittier's crime specialist stocks mystery fiction and nothing else, a feature if that is your category and a wasted trip if it is not. Secondhand copies live in a section the store's own site labels Annex Books, kept apart from the new-arrivals hardcover, cozy and paperback shelves. Author nights run through the year — Daniel G. Miller was booked for September 2, 2026 — and the door stays open eleven to five-thirty, seven days.
Hours : Daily 11am–5:30pmWebsite Used bookstoresHalf Price Books St. Louis Park
5017 Excelsior Blvd, St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Over in St. Louis Park on Excelsior Boulevard, the nearest branch of the chain to downtown Minneapolis and the volume option on this page: secondhand books, records, films and games, a clearance run, and a counter that will quote on any of those categories every day the doors are unlocked. Chain pricing means the arbitrage sits in the mispriced collectible rather than the common paperback, and the locked case of rare and signed material deserves a pass before you leave. Store-wide events are posted per location, and this branch advertised up to 20% off over the Labor Day weekend that fell on September 5, 6 and 7 in 2026.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–7pmWebsite Used bookstoresHalf Price Books Highland Park
2041 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116
In Saint Paul, on Ford Parkway, the Highland Park branch with the big downstairs fiction floor and a parking lot of its own, which matters when you are working a route by car. It keeps the identical seven-day grid and the identical sell-to-us desk as the Excelsior Boulevard store, so treat the pair as a single buying option and take whichever falls on your way. Both branches were running the identical up-to-20% Labor Day notice in September 2026.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 11am–7pmWebsite Used bookstoresMidway Used and Rare Books
1579 University Ave W, St Paul, MN 55104
In Saint Paul, on University Avenue in the Midway district, a general secondhand and rare house trading since 1965 and carrying both ABAA and ILAB membership, with paperbacks, children's books, science fiction, vintage comics and old magazines stacked around the scholarly material. It opens eleven to five on all seven days, with no dark day to plan around, and it asks for an appointment before you turn up with books to sell. Twin Cities Geek listed it among the passport stops for April 2026, and its online catalog was still posting fresh arrivals when read in September 2026.
Hours : Daily 11am–5pmWebsite Used bookstoresAgainst the Current
1658 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105
In Saint Paul, on Grand Avenue near Macalester College, Hal Johnson's small room deals in clean secondhand copies with a scholarly and literary tilt, and every item in its online catalog is written up the antiquarian way, edition by edition, with the condition spelled out. The week is short at the front and long at the back: shut Monday and Tuesday, then open from 10am, with three evenings running to 8pm. Twin Cities Geek had it on the Macalester-Groveland leg of the April 2026 bookstore passport.
Hours : Wed 10am–8pm, Thu 10am–6pm, Fri–Sat 10am–8pm, Sun 10am–6pm; closed Mon–TueWebsite Used bookstoresOther Skies Weird Fiction
803 Dodd Rd, West Saint Paul, MN 55118
Out in West Saint Paul on Dodd Road, a specialist in fine, rare, out-of-print and limited-edition horror, science fiction, fantasy and illustration, with the expensive stock laid out in open caskets and an electric organ behind the till. The Star Tribune profiled owner Josh Hames here on October 30, 2025, under a headline about caskets, hearses and blood-stained books. He buys in the same categories he sells, which makes this the right door for genre material a general shop would tag as ordinary secondhand. Weekends only unless you arrange a weekday appointment, and Saturday runs to 9pm.
Hours : Fri noon–8pm, Sat noon–9pm, Sun noon–7pm; weekdays by appointmentWebsite Used bookstoresThe Book Lady's Library
637 Smith Ave N, Saint Paul, MN 55102
In Saint Paul, on Smith Avenue up on the West Side bluff, a shop assembled out of one person's library: the collection of the late Jeanette Kamman, known around town as the Book Lady, opened to the public with a grand opening on September 27, 2025. Twin Cities Geek counted it in April 2026 among the year's new arrivals on the Twin Cities bookstore map. Its week is four short shifts, one Wednesday evening and three mornings, so this one needs planning rather than a drop-in.
Hours : Wed 4–8pm, Thu–Sat 9am–1pm; closed Sun–TueWebsite