National Bookstores
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Bookshop.org (Online bookseller that supports independent bookstores)

Some Independent Local Bookstores
Specialty Bookstores
Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore and Uncle Edgar’s Mystery Bookstore
Red Balloon Bookshop (Children’s bookstore  in St. Paul, MN since 1984)
Wild Rumpus Books (Children’s bookstore in Minneapolis, MN since 1992)
DreamHaven Books (Specializes in new and used SF, fantasy, etc.)
Once Upon A Crime (Specializes in new and used mystery fiction)
Tropes & Trifles (Specializes in romance fiction)
Birchbark Books (Indigenous owned, stocks books and art; special outreach to children)
Strive Publishing & Bookstore (Inspires community collaboration through sharing Black stories)
Comma, a bookshop (Fiction, nonfiction, & young adult books, with a special focus on MN authors)
SubText: A Bookstore (Focus on fiction, poetry, history, and literary non-fiction)
Milkweed Editions (Bookstore and publisher located in the Open Books building)
General Bookstores
Big Hill Books
Next Chapter Booksellers
Magers & Quinn Booksellers (New and used books in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis)
Moon Palace Books
Used and Rare Books
Midway Used & Rare Books
Book House (Used books located in Dinkytown)
Eat My Words (Used and rare books in the heart of northeast Minneapolis)
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (Fine books)

Online Sources for Used and Out-of-Print Books
Advanced Books Exchange (abebooks.com)–The world’s largest source of out-of-print books!
Alibris.com–Find thousands of hard-to-find books!
BookFinder.com

Historical Music and Dance Sources
Honeysuckle Music (Local seller of early music and instruments)
Country Dance and Song Society
Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society

Other Specialty Bookstores
Boydell and Brewer (sellers of the Early English Text Society series)
Science Fiction Book Club
Powells Books (Legendary LARGE independent book store—new, used, rare—in Portland, Oregon)
Schoenhof’s Foreign Books
Shakespeare and Company, the legendary bookstore in Paris, France

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  This document last updated 10/21/24