Subtext Bookstore
@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
Learn more: subtextbooks.com/events
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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
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 🤩 🍴
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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 🤩 🍴
We 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
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
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We 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
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
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
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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
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.
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Online
Game time, Booksky.
Change the whole vibe of a book by adding a word to a title. I’ll start:
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Thatcher.
Change the whole vibe of a book by adding a word to a title. I’ll start:
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Thatcher.
October 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Online
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Visited @subtextbookstore.bsky.social this morning with my kid. We both came home with several books. As one does.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Visited @subtextbookstore.bsky.social this morning with my kid. We both came home with several books. As one does.
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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"
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"
October 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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"
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!
Streets.mn is excited to announce that we are seeking writers, storytellers, photographers to research and write articles for a recently-awarded Minnesota Historical Society grant.
Each of the 4 projects is paid $1000, to be split between the storyteller and photographer.
Each of the 4 projects is paid $1000, to be split between the storyteller and photographer.
Call for Pitches, Paid Opportunities to Discuss Equity in Highway Design
Streets.mn is excited to announce that we are seeking writers, storytellers, photographers to research and write articles for a recently-awarded MNHS grant.
streets.mn
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is extremely cool!! Tell your friends!
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!
September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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!
That's an unmatched one-two lunch combo if you're asking me. What a way to spend an afternoon in the Capitol City!
Today, I experienced the type of day downtown Saint Paul that I’ve been dreading ever since starting to work down there: I couldn’t stop myself from buying both Ruam Mit AND a new book at Subtext over lunch.
September 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That's an unmatched one-two lunch combo if you're asking me. What a way to spend an afternoon in the Capitol City!
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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
Once again, a Shannon book with gorgeous cover art by Ivan Belikov
#booksky
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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
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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September 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Check out our new and improved staff favorites page on our website here!
www.subtextbooks.com/staff-favori...
www.subtextbooks.com/staff-favori...
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Hardcovers are here! Check out the back cover haha
September 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hardcovers are here! Check out the back cover haha
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!
Always one of our favorites to hear talk about process and craft, plus he's a helluva storyteller!
September 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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!
Always one of our favorites to hear talk about process and craft, plus he's a helluva storyteller!
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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
#booksky
September 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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
#booksky
September 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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.
September 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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.
We 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
August 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We 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
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Alright, @greenwell.bsky.social and @subtextbookstore.bsky.social, I did it. You can all stop being mad at me now.
August 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Alright, @greenwell.bsky.social and @subtextbookstore.bsky.social, I did it. You can all stop being mad at me now.
You know what? Hell yeah.
We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.
August 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
You know what? Hell yeah.
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Whoa
Tonight! We're hosting Penn Jillette for an event discussing his new crime novel Felony Juggler! 7pm at 6 West 5th Street. 😎
August 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Whoa
Tonight! We're hosting Penn Jillette for an event discussing his new crime novel Felony Juggler! 7pm at 6 West 5th Street. 😎
August 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Tonight! We're hosting Penn Jillette for an event discussing his new crime novel Felony Juggler! 7pm at 6 West 5th Street. 😎
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August 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM