In March , I finally achieved a dream by getting built-in bookshelves for my home office. I had about 1, books, but with the new bookshelves, I suddenly had space for more. So, I started buying books. I bought quite a few online, but I also spent several weeks trying to find every place in Sioux Falls that sold books. I asked friends, asked some people online, and Googled quite a bit. I have made this list.
If you have new information that would help, please get in touch. These are bookstores that sell new books. Very close to Last Stop West, which is handy. A quirky gift store, with a decent-sized book collection, including mainstream titles and lots of coffee table and art books. These are stores that sell used books that you would buy to read as opposed to books would would buy for decoration for historical reasons. Mostly fiction. They also have community event space here and a small bar.
A non-profit that promotes literacy. Also lots of kids and young adult titles. Relatively little non-fiction. Lots of used books. The east location is bigger than the one out by the malls β definitely more non-fiction in the east location. They also sell CDs, movies, and video games. Their website has a search function. They have a pretty large selection of used books, divided into three sections: fiction, non-fiction, and kids. Each location has a really good selection of books.
The best is probably the east location, by The Attic. Prepare to browse. Organized into fiction, non-fiction, kids, faith, and a separate section for Catholic books. Lots of very old books β think textbooks from the turn of the last century. Also, lots of books of local history. Some antique and decoration books, and a fair amount of contemporary novels.
Clearly, these specialize in textbooks, but many assigned books are mainstream, and they usually have smaller contemporary book sections as well. I went in the spring, which was probably a bad time. I looked into the University Center, but I believe their bookstore is online-only. And other people might do this without registering their library. To be clear: you are supposed to swap books at a Little Free Library.
