The Book House is known for the breadth and depth of our stock and knowledge and we look forward to helping you your book collection needs!
With over 40,000 books in the store and another 40,000 in our archives, there’s plenty to look at both in store and online. New books are arriving everyday and added to our online catalog.
Browse Online Book CollectionWe have a small but diligently curated selection of records. In fact, The Book House has been named one of the top places to buy vinyl in Minnesota, and remains the only place to buy vinyl in the University area!
The New Book House offers an old-fashioned book store experience, with it the increasingly rare opportunity to browse a large stock, hang out, read, write, invite friends to meet and talk with fellow book-lovers. In addition to our store stock, our 40,000+ on-line book archive can be searched at our catalog site.
The Book House’s remodel of Historic Dinkydale’s entire second floor carved out a labyrinthine series of book rooms, a room for small gatherings and monthly storytelling, a Rare Book Room, a front room with large windows overlooking 4th Street and a reading nook in the poetry alcove, below a window that overlooks Bob Dylan’s old Dinkytown apartment. This room also features an expanded collection of vinyl.