Moncton's secondhand book trade runs across three municipalities of one census metropolitan area, and the Petitcodiac River splits it down the middle. On the Moncton bank, the Boutique Hospice Shoppe on Collishaw Street and The Comic Hunter on St. George Street stand about 1.5 km apart, while the Coliseum on Killam Drive, where the big fall sale happens, is some 2 km west of the thrift shop. Over the causeway in Riverview, Cover To Cover on Pinewood Road and Reads Riverview on Coverdale Road are under 2 km from each other. The outlier is Fundy Bay Books, set up in 2026 in a heritage house out in Albert County, the longest drive on this page.
The date to circle in fall 2026 is Bookstravaganza, the READ NB literacy fundraiser that returns to the Coliseum on Friday, October 30, 2026 for three days, after a tenth edition its organizers credit with more than $85,000 raised. Between May and June 2026 smaller sales ran in a church atrium, a Riverview community centre, the public library and a Memramcook arena, and those are gathered in the tips below. Prices throughout this guide are in Canadian dollars.
Some names on older lists come with a caveat. Reads Books & Coffee on Mountain Road still shows a trade-for-credit offer and a weekly schedule on its website, but its latest dated social post is from November 2022, so it is filed below as a tip, not a stop. Value Village on Plaza Boulevard and the Elmwood Drive branch of the Salvation Army's thrift chain mention books only in stock lists that their head offices copy onto every store page, while the metaphysical shops that turn up in book searches sell new titles.
Used bookstore with trade creditCover To Cover Books
630 Pinewood Rd, Riverview, NB E1B 5M7
In Riverview, in the Findlay Place plaza on Pinewood Road next to the fire hall, a shop the Town of Riverview profiled in July 2025 as it marked 20 years on the strip, the year two local sisters began wrapping titles for its blind-date shelf. The trade policy on its website gives a quarter of the Canadian cover price in credit for softcovers, with floors of $2.50 for most books, $1.50 for youth titles and $2 for westerns, plus $4 per adult hardcover, and that credit never expires but covers at most half of a purchase of used books. Reader's Digest condensed books, textbooks, monthly Harlequins, computer books, fiction hardcovers missing their jackets and health books published before 2020 are refused. Shelves lean to mass-market fiction, biographies and general non-fiction, with a few new books and special orders on the side, and the shop's Facebook page was showing off fresh arrivals on September 24, 2026.
Hours: Tue–Wed 10am–6pm, Thu–Fri 10am–8pm, Sat 10am–5pm; closed Sun–MonWebsite Charity used-book sale (READ NB)Bookstravaganza 2026
Moncton Coliseum, 377 Killam Dr, Moncton, NB E1C 3T1
READ NB's adult-literacy fundraiser takes over the Moncton Coliseum on Killam Drive from October 30 to November 1, 2026, stocked by donations dropped at Sobeys stores in Moncton, Riverview, Dieppe and Shediac between September 8 and October 8. The organizer's FAQ says the vast majority of the books are used, with a French section and shelves for other languages, and its December 2025 results report put the tenth edition above $85,000 raised, with fiction sorted by author and non-fiction by genre. General admission is free from 5pm on the Friday, 75 early-bird tickets at $30 buy a quieter preview earlier that afternoon, and the Sunday finale is a fill-a-box for $10, though READ NB advises anyone chasing a new release, a bestseller or a favourite author not to hold out for Sunday. The organizer's 2026 poster keeps the Friday doors open until 8:30pm, sets Saturday, October 31 at 10am to 4pm, and prices most items between $1 and $5.
Hours: October 30–November 1, 2026: Fri 5pm–8:30pm (early-bird tickets 1–3pm), Sat 10am–4pm, Sun 10am–2pmWebsite New, used & rare bookshopFundy Bay Books
2834 Main St, Hillsborough, NB E4H 2Y7
Out in Hillsborough, about 23 km south-southeast of central Moncton on Route 114, a bookshop fitted into the first floor of the 1842 Richard A. Gross House, which the Telegraph-Journal reported on April 12, 2026 would carry new, used and rare books, with used books by bestselling authors such as Stephen King, Danielle Steel and James Patterson and a shelf kept for local authors. The shop's own Facebook post of April 1, 2026 set the opening for 9am on April 18 and placed it across from the Cinnamon Soul Café and beside The Pottery Buff, and a visitor's blog post of May 10, 2026 described browsing its new, used and rare stock after the doors opened. It began accepting book drop-offs on March 29, 2026, turning away Reader's Digest, National Geographic, encyclopedias, dictionaries and anything musty or water-damaged, and offers to collect when a drop-off is impractical. On September 27, 2026 the page thanked the crowd at a book sale held the day before, which it said would spread $700 through the Fundy Albert community.
Hospice charity thrift shopBoutique Hospice Shoppe
164 Collishaw St, Moncton, NB E1C 9R3
A few hundred metres southwest of the centre on Collishaw Street, the upscale thrift shop of Hospice Southeast New Brunswick, whose proceeds pay for programs including end-of-life care at Maison Albert House. The charity's list of accepted donations gives books a heading to themselves, beside children's books and games and the CDs, DVDs and vinyl. Its Instagram priced every book in the shop at $1 on Thursday, February 26, 2026, then called the $1 book day back on Thursday, July 30, 2026. Each donor is tracked under a number and receives a tax receipt every February for whatever of theirs sold.
Hours: Mon–Wed 10am–5pm, Thu 10am–6pm, Fri–Sat 10am–5pm; closed SunWebsite Where can I find cheap used books in Moncton?
Watch the Boutique Hospice Shoppe's Instagram: it cut every book to $1 on February 26 and again on July 30, 2026. On the Sunday of Bookstravaganza, November 1, 2026, READ NB lets you fill a box for $10 at the Coliseum, and READ NB's poster puts most items at $1 to $5 across the three days. In spring, Central United's sale in May 2026 asked only for a donation, and the Memramcook sale in June 2026 ended with $10 bags. For everyday reading, Cover To Cover's trade credit lets your old paperbacks pay for up to half of the next pile.
Where do I sell used books in Moncton?
For store credit rather than cash, Cover To Cover in Riverview credits one-fourth of the printed Canadian price on softcovers and $4 on adult hardcovers, which can cover no more than 50 per cent of a used-book bill, and it refuses textbooks, condensed books and monthly romances. Fundy Bay Books in Hillsborough has taken drop-offs since March 2026 and will arrange a pickup, though its posts don't say whether it pays. For cash, AbeBooks and Amazon.ca suit the better titles, while Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace move local bundles. Before any of it leaves the house, stand the books spine-out on a shelf and shoot a single picture in BiblioScan: the app matches every spine it recognizes to a resale figure, which sorts the listing candidates from the trade-counter fodder and from what goes in the Bookstravaganza bins at Sobeys, open until October 8.
When is the big book sale in Moncton?
Bookstravaganza, READ NB's fundraiser for adult literacy, fills the Coliseum on Killam Drive from Friday, October 30 through Sunday, November 1, 2026. Doors open to everyone at no charge from 5pm to 8:30pm that Friday, a $30 early-bird ticket capped at 75 buyers gets you in between 1pm and 3pm first, Saturday, October 31 runs 10am to 4pm, and on the Sunday, 10am to 2pm, a box costs $10 to fill. Donations close on October 8, 2026 at the Sobeys collection bins. The 2025 edition drew more than 5,000 people, READ NB reports.
Which day is best for book hunting in Moncton?
Every day of the week has at least one counter open. The downtown comic shop is the one fixed stop here that opens on Sundays, from noon to 5pm, and on Mondays it shares the day with the Hospice Shoppe while Cover To Cover stays shut. Tuesday through Saturday catches all three, and Thursday and Friday run latest, with Cover To Cover and The Comic Hunter both open until 8pm. Bookstravaganza adds Friday evening, Saturday, October 31 and the Sunday fill-a-box on November 1, 2026.