An independent bookstore
Milkweed Books
Hours & Location
Our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore at Open Book is open!
We’re open during the following hours:
Sunday: 10 am to 5 pm
Tuesday: 10 am to 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am to 5 pm
Thursday: 10 am to 7 pm
Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm
Order books online anytime via Bookshop.org.
A note about our November and December hours:
We will close the following days:
Thursday, November 28
Tuesday, December 24
Wednesday, December 25
Thursday, December 26
Tuesday, December 31 closing early at 1pm
Wednesday, January 1
CONTACT THE BOOKSTORE
1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 215-2540
Milkweed Books is located on the first floor of Open Book, the nation’s largest literary arts center. In addition to serving as home to Milkweed Editions, Milkweed Books, the Loft Literary Center, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the building offers the locally-owned FRGMNT Coffee, a literary commons, and event space.
For all inquiries about buying for in-store stock, ordering a book, or event proposals, please email our manager Zoey at zoey_gulden@milkweed.org.
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About Milkweed Books
Milkweed Books is owned and operated by Milkweed Editions, an independent literary press. Our mission is “to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.” Milkweed Books provides a space for this engagement, offering books we have published as well as books published by other presses we admire. We prioritize originality, marginalized voices, and books exploring our relationship to place and the more-than-human world. We are a resource for the neighborhood growing around us, a site of connection, community, and exploration.