"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...

"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