We are hiring two Assistant Managers! Visit semcoop.com/careers-co-op for more information and how to apply. Applications are due Nov. 2nd.

We can't wait for you to meet our new Executive Director, Kevin Bendle! Please join us for a Meet & Greet with Kevin on Saturday, September 20th from noon-2pm at the Co-op, and from 2pm-4pm at 57th Street Books. Join us for light refreshments, conversation, and 50% off on all sale books!

Join our team as a Seasonal Event Bookseller! The Seasonal Event Bookseller is a team member who primarily assists with offsite events while also supporting in-store staffing when needed. Apply by emailing [email protected] by Sept. 13th Find out more at www.semcoop.com/careers-co-op

Congratulations to our partners on the Cundill History Prize Longlist! 🎉 @harvardpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social We're proud to support the work these presses do in bringing essential scholarship to the libraries across the globe!

We are thrilled to welcome Kevin Bendle as the Executive Director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores! For more information, please visit: www.semcoop.com/welcoming-ke...

QOTD: What's a book that re-programmed your brain or gave you a new perspective? Jina's pick is "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion. Let us know in the comments! #booksky

QOTD: What's next up on your TBR (to be read) list? Cielo's pick is "Rouge" by Mona Awad. Let us know in the comments! #booksky

Join us tomorrow at 3pm at the Co-op for an event with Payton McCarty-Simas! Payton will discuss her new publication "That Very Witch" and will be joined in conversation by Megan Fariello. For more information and to RSVP visit: www.semcoop.com/event/payton...

QOTD: What's a "bucket list" book you think that everyone should read? Jina's pick is "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon. Let us know in the comments! #booksky

QOTD: What's your favorite book to re-read? Nahin loves "Pizza Girl" by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Let us know in the comments which title you keep coming back to! #booksky

Our amazing marketing interns for the summer! Welcome to Jina, Stone and Cielo from the UChicago Metcalf program!

Chicago friends! I'll be in your city Tuesday, July 22 talking Karl Marx in America at the @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social. I'll be in conversation with the great Cedric Johnson, Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.semcoop.com/event/andrew...

Valentine’s Day has passed, but love still lingers on our shelves—just as Black history extends beyond a single month. Stop in to see our ode to Black Love stories—the romantic, the communal and the self-affirming—at 57th Street Books today.

We are SO excited to announce our event with Tracy Deonn who will be here discussing her new book, OATHBOUND, on March 7th, 6pm! Tickets are now on sale on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-tracy-deonn-tickets-1228079281189 @tracydeonn.bsky.social #tracydeonn #oathbound #hydepark

Thank you to the Black revolutionaries, both then and now, who remind us that our freedom is a birthright. Happy Black History Month!

Calling all book lovers! Share your love affair with literature by supporting Seminary Co-op Bookstores with a financial gift. We've been playing matchmaker between readers and their perfect books for 60 years. Ready to make it official? Donate today and be our Valentine! semcoop.com/give

This is a great book! I was thrilled to have a chance to discuss it with Mike recently at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social.

On this week’s Front Table, explore humanity’s evolution, the power of beauty standards, feminist resistance in Mexico, and examine the case for Black reparations through a rigorous, multidisciplinary lens. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

just bought my first eBook on @bookshop-org.bsky.social for @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social. what book was it? A romance, of course. The Co-op by Tarah DeWitt. Seems like a perfect choice title wise, and plus I saw her dunking on a fascist on Threads. bookshop.org/a/5779/97812...

Great news! Find us on Bookshop.org!

Thank you @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social for including When Freedom is the Question in your picks for Notable Books of 2024! An honor to be included!

We're excited to host Atossa Araxia Abrahamian at Seminary Co-op Books next week for a discussion of THE HIDDEN GLOBE, exploring the spread of extraterritorial "zones" of exception to national laws. https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/news/2025/1/atossa-araxia-abrahamian-give-tour-hidden-globe

We are so pleased to join this community and share with you all our stores' Notable Books of 2024! Unscientifically gathered, based on unquantifiable criteria, and compiled by our team - these are the books that helped define 2024. Find the whole list at: simplebooklet.com/notables2024...