Good Friends, Good Books, and a Sleepy Conscience: This is the Ideal Life!

River Boat Books was founded in 1996 in St. Paul, MN on the banks of the Mississippi River. We chose the name to honor the indomitable, adventurous spirit of Mark Twain, whose presence lingers not only up and down the Mississippi, but across the landscape of American literature. Our titles reflect both the elegance of a bygone era and an unrelenting passionate commitment to break all boundaries and explore new territory.

Titles Released in 2021

From a murder mystery/memoir set at a horse racing track in New York state titled The Ladies Catskill to a fantasy about love in the afterlife titled What Love Can Do (by Ed Moses, author of the novels One Smart Kid and Nine Sisters Dancing) to an Irish myth turned children’s story titled The Moose, the Mouse, and the Little Irish Boy (by father and son Erik and Emil Martiny) to a ground-breaking piece of literary criticism titled A Ghost Wandering Through A Memory, our 2021 titles offer our readers a little bit of everything.

Titles Released in 2020

Our 2020 titles include a rock and roll fable titled Cynicism Management, written by Bori Praper (musician, composer, producer, and consummate session drummer) a sci-fi murder mystery set in the art world titled Crown of Beaks, a search for identity/love story set in India and the United States just after 911 titled Brown Man in White Light, and a mythic almost surreal exploration of the resilience of those trapped in the never-ending loop of an eternal revolution in an unnamed African country titled Gods Among Gazelles.

Titles Released 1996-2019

Everything from One Last Dance With Lawrence Welk & Other Stories (a 1997 Minnesota Book Award Finalist) to Eternity, My Beloved (by Jean Sulivan, winner of the Grand Prix of Catholic Literature, one of France’s highest literary awards) to Argentine Roberto Artl’s (the godfather of Latin-American literature) two-volume masterpiece The Seven Madmen and The Flamethrowers, to the encyclopedic masterpiece The Mad Patagonian to, well, we’ve got 25 years of great literature for you to choose from.