Paperbacks & Pieces

Paperbacks & Pieces has been a downtown Winona institution since 1988, offering the Mississippi River bluff town's readers, college students, and visitors an endlessly changing inventory of quality used books. The store's location in a historic Broadway building adds to the pleasure of browsing, and the prices ensure that everyone can afford to leave with something. The general interest selection covers all genres and subjects, with particularly strong fiction and history sections that benefit from the academic community at Winona State University and St. Mary's University. The river history section celebrates the Mississippi's role in shaping Winona and the upper river valley. The children's section provides affordable reading for young families, and the poetry section has developed an unexpected following in a town with a quietly thriving literary arts scene. Paperbacks & Pieces proves that a well-run used bookstore is an essential piece of any town's cultural infrastructure.