"I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves." -Ntozake Shange #unabooksboardthoughts #ntozakeshange

"New Year’s Day...Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." -Mark Twain #unabooksboardthoughts #marktwain

A true Christmas miracle: a last minute re-stock of some of the season's most requested books! We've got copies of CHICAGO HOMES by Carla Bruni & Phil Thompson, and GAME CHANGER, ROLE MODEL, & THE LONG GAME by Rachel Reid (that's books #1, 5, & 6 ONLY!)

"The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting." -Louisa May Alcott, Little Women #unabooksboardthoughts #louisamayalcott

We just wanna talk to you about the books we loved this year. Come to the shop so we can tell you all about the books we loved this year. Or click here unabridgedbookstore.com/list/staff-f...

The critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable" Whalefall brings an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war...

A comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago's residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city's earliest days through WW2, revealing everything about what makes a home a Chicago home.

Another batch of the best! Read some of our reviews here: unabridgedbookstore.com/list/staff-f...

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." -Oscar Wilde #unabooksboardthoughts #oscarwilde

Another Staff Pick Saturday dedicated to the best books of the year! Click below to see what we thought of these, and to read about all our 2025 favorites! unabridgedbookstore.com/list/staff-f...

December Book Clubs! We've moved some of our dates around for the holidays, so double check our schedule below!

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'" -Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"There is something delicious about the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you." -Beatrix Potter #unabooksboardthoughts #beatrixpotter

We're One Week Away from Small Business Saturday! We'll be closed on Thursday (11/27) for Thanksgiving, and open our regular hours of 10 -7 on Friday. Then visit us on Saturday, Nov. 29th from 9am - 7pm to celebrate! Details below: unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2025-1...

"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy." -Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights #unabooksboardthoughts

Staff Pick Saturday, a few books we think you should be reading!

November Book Club Update! If you're planning to read along with us this month, check our meeting dates as the holidays have shifted our schedule! More info about our reading groups on our site!

Happy Birthday to us! This month Unabridged Bookstore is celebrating 45 years of business and books! Thank you so very much to all of our wonderful customers and friends, to our Lakeview neighbors, and to the literary community of Chicago for keeping Unabridged Bookstore going since 1980!

made some new friends this week 😘 thanks so much to @caitlinstarling.com & Linton Taylor & Lewis Warren for visiting Unabridged! We've got signed copies of their books now in the shop!

"God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials." Join Horror Book Club's discussion of THE EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty tonight (10/22) at 7:30pm - if you dare! unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2025-1...

Reporting live from New Release Day! Come see what's new on our shelves: unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

"They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." -Rebecca Solnit

dropping by with a stack of new Staff Recs! Visit the shop or click on our site to see what we Unabridgians are reading! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...

#nokings #handsoffchicago

Signed copies of CHICAGO HOMES by Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson are now available! Thanks for stopping by @ctbruni.bsky.social and @wonder_city_studio!

"O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all." -Robert Frost, October #unabooksboardthoughts #robertfrost

it’s the last (official) day of Banned Books Week, and the final day of the Hull Family Foundation’s matching grant for donations to Chicago Books to Women in Prison! Click here to see their Wishlist or to send them a Gift Card: unabridgedbookstore.com/wishlist/sew...

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

Staff Pick Saturday, bringing you a bunch of this week’s new releases! read some reviews here: unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...

"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming." -Alice Walker #unabooksboardthoughts #alicewalker

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided him to port." -Assata Shakur Rest in Power 1947-2025 #unabooksboardthoughts #assatashakur

a few new books out today that we thought you might like! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

The 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist is here! The winner will be announced on Nov. 10th! unabridgedbookstore.com/list/2025-bo...

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” -Thomas Pynchon #unabooksboardthoughts #thomaspynchon

here’s what we’ve been reading this week! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s... your turn! tell us what you’re currently reading!

This weekend is the Lakeview East Festival of the Arts! lakevieweastfestivalofthearts.com

“there are new books” - Shane, Unabridged General Manager Come see what’s new this week: unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two— and see what worms are eating at the rind.” Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution #unabooksboardthoughts #langstonhughes

We’re open 9am - 4pm today for Labor Day!

“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.” -Tove Jansson #unabooksboardthoughts #tovejansson

We’re making some updates to our website, and online ordering is currently unavailable! Give us a call if you need help placing an order, or just come see us in the real world!

Things my @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social tote is perfect for: 1. Carrying books. 2. Hiding the bottle of wine I'm bringing to church because I'm giving it to someone I'm meeting right after as their birthday present and I didn't want to go back to my place in between.

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice #unabooksboardthoughts #janeausten

“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.“ -Mary Oliver, The Pond #unabooksboardthoughts #maryoliver

“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.” -Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War #unabooksboardthoughts #amalelmohtar #maxgladstone

a sweet neighbor stopped by to show us their tote bag upgrade!

Since it’s Bookstore Romance Day, this Staff Picks post is dedicated to a few books we love ❤️ www.unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...

We’re celebrating Bookstore Romance Day! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8knMHW2/

Today we’re celebrating Romance Readers with 10% Off on all Romance titles! We’ll have candy kisses & fortune cookies & we'll be raffling off a $25 Gift Card so you can come back for a 2nd date! Happy Bookstore Romance Day!

author Talia Tucker stopped by the shop to sign SOLO STAN, a queer YA romance about two concertgoers and unwitting seatmates who, when the show is abruptly cut short, embark on an unforgettable summer night together… Thanks for visiting Talia! www.unabridgedbookstore.com/book/9780593...