St. Andrew's Book Fair

09/02/2026

We are reopening to donations! We finally found the floor, so this Sunday (Sept. 6) we will accept donations 12-2p. Please come to the ADA entrance on Hillsboro (the ramp leading to the lower level) and a volunteer will help you with your books.

Attached is our donation policies regarding what we can take and can't take. Please do note we can only accept five boxes per person each month; there's only so much space!

Also: Please do NOT dump books at the door when we are not there. The books are ruined by the elements and that makes us sad. Feel free to contact fair organizer Elizabeth Donald at [email protected] if you have any questions.

08/09/2026

Happy National Book Lovers' Day! For your humble fair director, the book that has stayed with me the longest is probably IT by Stephen King, which will probably get me thrown out of the English Department but it's reaaaally good. What's yours?

08/08/2026

Are you at the The Land of Goshen Community Market today? When you're done shopping and riding the ponies, walk one block north (past St. Boniface) and visit the St. Andrew's Book Fair! Look for the garden entrance on the side facing St. Boniface and you'll find our entrance. 20,000 books waiting for you!

08/07/2026

The Book Fair is open and hopping! We are open today until 8 and tomorrow from 9-1 - welcome to St. Andrew’s Book Fair!

08/04/2026

Dear friends: We are still closed to donations, but even if we weren’t, these books are piled under a sign that says, “Do Not Dump Books Here.“ We are not at the church every day, and your books will get rained on. We love your books. We want your books. And that’s why we don’t want them sitting out, exposed to the elements and potentially destroyed before we can find them. We hope to reopen to donations in September, so watch this page for those announcements. Thank you!

07/05/2026

Hey folks: if you missed this announcement, we are currently CLOSED to donations. The pile is approaching Himalayan proportions! Once we get ahead of it, we will reopen on our usual schedule of accepting donations on the first Sunday of the month - please watch this page for announcements! You can also message us here if you have questions. Thank you!

Ordinarily next weekend would be our monthly donation day. That's Independence Day weekend, and we are really overloaded with donations right now. So we are temporarily closing to donations until we can dig out from the pile - hopefully only one month, but we will keep you posted. We hope you can wait us out until we clear through the piles, but if not, we encourage you to donate to the Greater St. Louis Book Fair across the river. They have several dropboxes throughout the city and their proceeds benefit literacy efforts in St. Louis. Thank you and happy Independence Day!

06/29/2026

Ordinarily next weekend would be our monthly donation day. That's Independence Day weekend, and we are really overloaded with donations right now. So we are temporarily closing to donations until we can dig out from the pile - hopefully only one month, but we will keep you posted. We hope you can wait us out until we clear through the piles, but if not, we encourage you to donate to the Greater St. Louis Book Fair across the river. They have several dropboxes throughout the city and their proceeds benefit literacy efforts in St. Louis. Thank you and happy Independence Day!

04/27/2026

Hey! We made the news! :) Thanks to everyone who came out to the Book Fair this weekend, and to the Edwardsville Intelligencer for doing this article.

“I’ve been coming to this book fair for years, and the large selection of books keeps me coming back,” one longtime visitor ys.

04/24/2026

Today's the day! Doors open at 3pm (no early sales, please). Remember to enter through the garden as usual, and our volunteers will be happy to greet you. See you at the Fair!

04/12/2026

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