Sioux Falls is a thin market that rewards knowing exactly where to point the car, and almost all of it lines up along two streets. West 41st Street carries three of the ten stops below — Reach Literacy at the Western Mall, a Savers behind the McDonald's, and the west-side Last Stop CD Shop — while downtown holds Full Circle Book Co-op on West 10th and the main library three blocks from it. The rest scatters east and south: the East 10th Last Stop, a Goodwill at the far end of 41st, the Ronning branch out past 49th, and a university campus north of the interstate. Nothing here connects on foot except that one downtown pair.
What this city does not have is a Friends of the Library bookstore, which is the backbone of most Midwestern used-book scenes. Siouxland Libraries sells its own weeded stock instead, off carts standing inside the branches, and the price list it published in the autumn of 2025 is the cheapest paper anywhere in town. Two more sales run on a calendar rather than a shelf: Our Savior's Lutheran clears its Fellowship Hall for a couple of days in March, and a lifelong-learning institute on the University of South Dakota's Sioux Falls campus takes a building for three days in May. Between the carts, those two events and one commercial buy counter, that is the whole board.
This city has buried bookshops before, and the wreckage still surfaces in search results. Reach Literacy once kept a second store downtown at 421 N Phillips Ave, Unit 116; business directories go on filing it under the nonprofit's name, while the nonprofit itself publishes only the Western Mall suite. Sion Lidster told Pigeon605 on November 19, 2025 that he opened Full Circle with Jason Kurtz precisely because the local used bookstore downtown had recently closed. Take that as the shape of the market rather than a detail: one donated shelf, one co-op, one media chain of two, and a library selling off its own discards.
Nonprofit used bookstoreReach Literacy Bookstore
2101 W 41st St, Suite 23, Sioux Falls, SD 57105
On the south side of the Western Mall by Scheels, and the only storefront in the city given over entirely to secondhand stock: every title on the shelves got there by donation, was curated before it reached the floor, and is resold to fund adult literacy tutoring, with five free children's books per family per visit thrown in. The accept list is narrow and worth reading before you load the trunk — nothing over ten years old, religious titles capped at five years, and a flat refusal on dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference sets, textbooks, former library books, audiobooks and discs — with a phone call requested for anything past 500 volumes. Its online arm at reachareader.com holds used hardcovers around $12 and paperbacks around $11 over a $6 deals shelf, and was still posting fresh $6 titles on September 2, 2026. The nonprofit hits forty years this autumn and is selling tickets to its Brewhaha fundraiser at Monick Yards for October 15, 2026.
Hours : Mon 10am–4pm, Tue 10am–7pm, Wed–Thu 10am–4pm, Fri 10am–1pm, Sat 10am–2pm; closed SunWebsite Bookshop and conversation barFull Circle Book Co-op
123 W 10th St, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Downtown on West 10th, kept by Sion and Jamie Lidster as a bookshop, event space and what Lidster called a conversation bar when Pigeon605 profiled South Dakota's independents on November 19, 2025, seven years into a run he began with Jason Kurtz. The co-op posted on March 29, 2025 that it carries thousands of used books across a load of genres beside curated new titles, local novels and poetry, graphic novels and blind dates with a book, and that a tote filled with anything priced $7 or under goes out the door for $35. Doors stay shut until 4pm five days out of seven, so this is the evening leg of any run through the city rather than a morning one. Five to ten events land here in a given week, from writing groups to punk shows, which is worth checking against before you plan a quiet browse.
Hours : Mon–Thu 4–10pm, Fri 4pm–midnight, Sat 10am–midnight, Sun noon–10pm
Media store with a used-book floorLast Stop CD Shop – East 10th St
2121 E 10th St, Sioux Falls, SD 57103
The room the business gives as its mailing address, east of Cliff Avenue on 10th Street, with the book shelves running alongside the media racks. Its catalog states flatly that all books are used and lets you filter by branch, so the East 10th holdings can be checked from home; across the pair the operator counts 25,000 to 30,000 books spread over more than 55 literary classes in hardcover, paperback and audio CD. That inventory is rebuilt at the top and the bottom of every hour around the clock, and the copy consulted here carried a stamp of September 2, 2026. Books share the room with CDs, vinyl, DVDs, Blu-rays, cartridges and consoles, every category of which the shop takes in as well as sells.
Hours : Mon–Sat 10am–7pm, Sun 11am–5pmWebsite Standing book-sale cartSiouxland Libraries Book Sale – Downtown Library
200 N Dakota Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
A sale cart parked inside the main library on North Dakota Avenue, and the floor price for the whole city: Siouxland Libraries put the tags out on September 17, 2025 — hardcovers $3, paperbacks $2, all children's titles $2, media $1 — and invited people to stop by daily and browse it. The library adds that everything on the cart is for sale only and that all sales are final, so nothing gets taken back. A cart rather than a room means the mix turns over with whatever the branch weeds that week, which pays off in short repeat visits rather than one long dig. It also happens to be the single leg on this page you can walk, three blocks up Dakota Avenue from Full Circle.
Hours : Library hours: Mon–Thu 9am–8pm, Fri 9am–6pm, Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 1–5pmWebsite Where can I find cheap used books in Sioux Falls?
One dollar is the floor here, and a library sets it. Siouxland Libraries tags media at $1, paperbacks and children's books at $2 and hardcovers at $3 on both of its sale carts, prices it published in September and November 2025, and every sale is final. The OLLI tables on the USD campus come next and are much the rarest, mostly $1 to $5 across three days in May. Among the rooms open all year the co-op gives the best rate by volume — one tote, nothing in it over $7, $35 — and the two thrift floors on 41st Street are where unsorted stock comes to rest.
Where do I sell used books in Sioux Falls?
One business here makes offers over the counter. Last Stop CD Shop puts books on the same buy-and-sell list as music, movies, games and game systems, working two rooms — 2121 E 10th St and 3509 W 41st St — that both stay open until 7pm six days a week and 5pm on Sunday. Everything else is a donation with strings: Reach Literacy turns down anything over ten years old and every textbook, encyclopedia, reference set, ex-library copy, audiobook and disc, and wants warning above 500 volumes; Our Savior's Lutheran asked for donations at any time ahead of its Fellowship Hall weekend; the OLLI volunteers opened three drop-off days in May 2026. Price the pile before you split it: stand the boxes up, aim a camera down a full shelf, and let BiblioScan read the row — every spine in the shot comes back tagged with what the open market will pay for that copy. That is the line between the few titles worth listing under your own name and the rest, which can go to the counter on 41st Street or into a donation bin.
Which day is best for book hunting in Sioux Falls?
Tuesday, oddly enough. It is the one day Reach Literacy stays open to 7pm rather than 4pm, it is the 30 percent day for anyone 55 or over at Savers, both Last Stop rooms trade to 7pm, the Ronning cart is available until 8pm, and Full Circle opens at 4pm to cover the evening. Saturday is the wide alternative and the only one that puts the two library carts, Reach Literacy and a 10am Full Circle on the same page, but Reach shuts at 2pm and the branches at 5pm, so it front-loads. Sunday strips the city back to the Last Stop pair, the thrift floors, a library afternoon from 1pm and Full Circle from noon; Friday is weakest of all, with Reach closing at 1pm.
When is the big library book sale in Sioux Falls?
No single big one exists in this city, and that is the honest answer. The county system runs no yearly clear-out through a Friends group at all — it parks standing sale carts in two of its buildings, posted in September and November 2025, available whenever the doors are unlocked. The dated events belong elsewhere: Our Savior's Lutheran took March 1 and 2 in 2025 and March 7 in 2026 for its Fellowship Hall weekend, and the lifelong-learning institute at USD held the Science and Technology building from May 13 to 15, 2026, after a May 14 to 16 run the year before. Organizers post both a week or two out rather than months ahead, so watch their own pages instead of penciling in a month.