@subtextbookstore.bsky.social
Downtown Saint Paul's Independent Bookstore — 6th West Fifth Street. We sell new and used fiction, with smiles on the side. | Open 10-7 Monday to Saturday and 12-5 Sunday. Visit www.subtextbooks.com to view and purchase our inventory.
New events schedule just dropped! We have some lovely authors sharing their work with this holiday season. Stone, Guilfoyle, Sanders, Hakensen, and Engstorm are LOCAL/MINNESOTAN AUTHORS🥳 . Mark your calendars, we hope to see you there.
Learn more: subtextbooks.com/events
Did you have a chance to read The New York Times Book Review this morning? 📰 🤔 Subtext has many of the titles reviewed in today’s paper! Here is a glimpse into our NYT-reviewed stock 🤩 🍴
09.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are still busy reading...
Biia is reading FOUR BOOKS for THREE BOOK CLUBS
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn, Vicious Bonds by Shanora Williams, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (please read this book), and Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah.
Biia gets her own post.
#booksky #saintpaul
Subtexts' booksellers are busy reading...
Margaret is reading Bog Queen by Anna North
Britta is reading Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno
Amy is reading The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
Matt is reading The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu
What are you reading?
#booksky #bookstore
We sold two copies of Claiming the City by Mary Lethert Wingerd today about the history of politics and faith in Saint Paul, and I think that is extremely cool.
28.10.2025 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Unbearable Lightness of Being Online
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Subtext Books exterior
Poster that reads BOOKSTORES NOT BEZOS
Visited @subtextbookstore.bsky.social this morning with my kid. We both came home with several books. As one does.
25.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of Subtext bookstore window with poster memorializing Melissa Hortman, with the book "Life After Cars" resting on the windowsill.
Happy to have the book #LifeAfterCars @thewaroncars.bsky.social, picked up at my favorite downtown St. Paul MN bookstore @subtextbookstore.bsky.social.
Note the bordering small text, top right of the poster in the window: "Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail"
This is extremely cool!! Tell your friends!
23.09.2025 23:54 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'll DM you!
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Order here: www.subtextbooks.com/item/yHYLazf...
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Who's got the power? By Dave Lamper, published by The New Press
Sometimes, when I'm receiving new arrivals, the books just jump right out of the box and into my hands and then I stop everything I'm doing and read 10 pages and then I buy a new book to bring home. This is one of those times. Congrats on the new book @dskamper.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social!
23.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0That's an unmatched one-two lunch combo if you're asking me. What a way to spend an afternoon in the Capitol City!
18.09.2025 15:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of "Among the Burning Flowers" by Samantha Shannon
A day delayed, but picked up my copy of "Among the Burning Flowers" by Samantha Shannon yesterday at @subtextbookstore.bsky.social
Once again, a Shannon book with gorgeous cover art by Ivan Belikov
#booksky
Check out our new and improved staff favorites page on our website here!
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Hardcovers are here! Check out the back cover haha
13.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 1
Monday night (9/15, 7pm) at the bookshop, meet the author of APOSTLE'S COVE, William Kent Krueger!
Monday night (9/15, 7pm) at the bookshop, meet the author of APOSTLE'S COVE, William Kent Krueger!
Always one of our favorites to hear talk about process and craft, plus he's a helluva storyteller!
Just found out that my favorite bookstore in the twin cities is on Bluesky. I can finally tag them in posts! All my MSP people go follow @subtextbookstore.bsky.social and stop in there next time you're in downtown St Paul
#booksky
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
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The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp | SubText Bookstore share.google/JMohDI3jAWU8...
04.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp published by Viking Books
Sometimes you open a box and you're so excited to see a book that you squeal a little bit. Can't wait to read this one. A page-turning thriller about the dark side of our never ending wars and their terrifying reverberations on our society.
04.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We only have a few special deluxe editions left of the brand new RF Kuang novel, #Katabasis, left! Out today and flying fast. @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social
26.08.2025 16:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A copy of Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell
Alright, @greenwell.bsky.social and @subtextbookstore.bsky.social, I did it. You can all stop being mad at me now.
24.08.2025 20:41 — 👍 78 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1You know what? Hell yeah.
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Right now, our only regularly schedule book club is a Kids Storytime #KickItAtKellogg We read picture books to kids in Kellogg Park on Saturdays in August (Tomorrow at 4pm!)
But we hope to add more book clubs soon! You can keep up on all of our free, public events here: www.subtextbooks.com/events
Oh, by the way, this bookstore loves the WNBA's best team — the Minnesota Lynx. #MVPhee
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15.08.2025 17:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whoa
15.08.2025 17:22 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Should we make him breakdown some cardboard boxes when he comes to pick up the book?
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