As we prepare for Independent Bookstore Day, @mbwwelch.bsky.social and @gregzimmerman.bsky.social have compiled a great list of their Chicago favorites. (This list only includes bookstores selling new books. Our list of favorite used bookstores is coming soon!) chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/23/o...

Independent Bookstore Day '26 is ONE WEEK AWAY! unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Run, don't walk! Lena is back in stock! But actually - safety first, folks FAMESICK by Lena Dunham is back on our shelves! unabridgedbookstore.com/book/9780593...

Here's a peek at what's new this week! Visit us in the shop or online to see more of this week's new releases!

We're only TWO WEEKS away from Independent Bookstore Day and the return of the legendary Chicagoland Indie Bookstore Day Crawl - with more than 80 bookshops around the region participating this year!

A little Staff Pick Saturday update for you! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...

If you know Unabridged you likely know Owen, and if you know Owen you likely know that he's been hard at work over the last few years to document an important piece of our community's history - and now the wait is over! A PLACE FOR US: GAY LIFE AT CHICAGO'S BELMONT ROCKS by Owen Keehnen is here!

New Release Tuesday - hope your bookshelf can handle it! Visit us in the shop or online to see what's new! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

Shout out to Chicago's @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social for stocking copies of Banning Books in America: Not a How-to, to my local informant @cohevinsky.bsky.social, and to Hanke Iron & Wire Works for the iron work

Breaking apart the forced unity of sex and gender, while increasing the scope of liveable lives, needs to be a central goal of feminism and other forms of social justice activism. This is important for everybody, especially, but not exclusively, for trans people. -Susan Stryker, Transgender History

Another Saturday, another stack of books we think you should read! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s... click there for some reading recommendations!

Proud of you Lakeview! #nokings

New this Week! Visit us in the shop or click below to see what else is new this week! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

"In March the earth remembers its own name. Everywhere the plates of snow are cracking. The rivers begin the sing." -Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

"The Reader" our tarot inspired tote bag is back in stock! And keep your eyes peeled - Indie Bookstore Day is coming soon, and we may or may not have something new to show you... unabridgedbookstore.com/product/read...

Surprise, surprise, we have books to tell you about! A lil peek at what our Staff is currently reading! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s... what are YOU reading this beautiful, spring weekend, Lakeview?!

Happy New Book Day! Come visit the bookshop, we've got new stuff to show you! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

A gentle reminder this weekend, the bookstore is a place for literature - not libations!

it's a good day to be in the bookstore! Thanks for visiting @leemandelo.bsky.social & @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social 😘 We've got some signed copies of SUMMER SONS & AMPLITUDES by Lee Mandelo and CHEF'S CHOICE, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN & A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS by Tj Alexander!

Happy New Release Day! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

"In March I'll be rested, caught up, and human." -Sylvia Plath #unabooksboardthoughts #sylviaplath

Another Staff Pick Saturday with a fresh stack of our recent reads! What's everybody reading this weekend? unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...

"A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other." -Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

Its New Book Day, and we've got a beautiful stack of new stuff to share! Including some SIGNED EDITIONS of Lauren Groff's BRAWLER, Michael Pollan's A WORLD APPEARS, and Tayari Jones' KIN! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

Happy New Book Day! What's everybody reading this week? Check the link below if you need inspiration! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -Alice Walker #unabooksboardthoughts #alicewalker

Fall in love with a new book today! Here's a stack of our latest Staff Picks! Visit us today for some lovely book recs and a KISS! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...

Delicate, deep, and powerful: those adjectives are not enough to describe the absolute beauty emanating from the poems of Richie Hofmann, a Cavafy for our times. —Édouard Louis, author of CHANGE

Celebrate Valentine's Day with us, Book Lovers! We're giving 10% Off on Romance Titles, tell us about your favorite Romance writers and get entered into a raffle for an Unabridged Bookstore Gift Card, we'll even set you up on a Blind Date with a Book! Visit us this weekend for a kiss!

Attn Funny Folk! Some of our Staff have entered the world of IMPROV, so we've expanded our Humor section and added a shelf of books on HOW TO HA HA! Welcome comedians, improvisers, and comic writers, visit us in the shop or click below for our recommended reading! unabridgedbookstore.com/yes_and

New Book Drop! It's a beautiful day, come see us at the bookshop! unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." -Audre Lorde #unabooksboardthoughts #audrelorde

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -George Orwell, 1984

Thank you to local author @hitchface for stopping by to sign copies of THE HITCH, a seductively outlandish novel following a woman as she attempts to exercise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.

Jonathan Gleason stopped by the shop to sign FIELD GUIDE TO FALLING ILL, the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a riveting exploration of illness and medicine that imagines a more humane form of care! Signed Copies Available Here! unabridgedbookstore.com/book/9780300...

Today we’re standing in solidarity with the people of Minnesota, with all participating in the National ICE Out movement, and with all who are expressing their rage and disappointment at the administration’s cruel and unjust occupation.

"Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us?" -Ocean Vuong #unabooksboardthoughts #oceanvuong

Staff Pick Saturday! unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s... What are YOU reading this weekend?

Happy New Book Day! Here's a look at what's new in books this week: unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week

"Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds." -Jamaica Kincaid #unabooksboardthoughts #jamaicakincaid

Staff Pick Saturday - We're really leaning into the suspense and thrillers this week! There's a link in our bio if you'd like to read some reviews and to check out more recommendations!

"Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there." -Aleksandar Hemon #unabooksboardthoughts #aleksandarhemon

"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...