www.timeout.com/chicago/shop... #30? We'll take it! Though the order is a mystery. There are some great stores on this list. Chicago is a lucky town. Support your local indie bookstore!!!

"Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real." Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make #chicago #literature #chicagowriters #brokennosebooks

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A new Chicago imprint seeking submissions for stories, art, poetry, nonfiction, photography for an anthology-- Hurl Words into this Darkness: Echoes in Gash or Gold. See brokennosebooks.com for more information. #art #poetry #photography #artists #writers #chicago #stories

FAIR Fund Chicago has chosen a CPS school with 88% low income families: Rudyard Kipling Elementary for their first book fair to support IN FULL. The book fair will be March 24-26. Please help fund the vouchers for this book fair: secure.givelively.org/donate/fair-...

As the year ends we've increased the footprint of indie presses from around the country. As times change it's important to support these smaller publishers who are putting out fascinating books. It's not surprising that so many indie pubs are putting out award winners. #smallpress #indiepublishers

We have made the difficult decision NOT to donate to Trump's White House ballroom. Unlike PiranhaCo, we have morals. I wonder how much money made selling books in the time it took to write this post. Shop local. It's always worth it.

A massive loss to Chicago. Truly a one-of-a-kind artist. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/t...

FAIR Fund Chicago is a registered 501(c)(3) dedicated to ensuring that ALL kids can walk away from their school book fair with books! No one leaves emptyhanded. #books #booksky #literacy #nonprofit #indiebookstores #bookfair #schoolbookfair #dogoodthings www.beverlyreview.net/news/top_sto...

It’s open again! Today through Sunday.

For those of you in Chicago, the monthly BUBO BLOWOUT SALE is happening on the south side at 2419 W. 103rd St., in Beverly! Used Books $1-$2! Today and tomorrow (6/28-6/29)! Noon to 5PM. THOUSANDS of books. Share with all! #booksky #chicago #books

So psyched to once again sponsor and bring a fantastic selection of books to the Beverly/Morgan Park #juneteenth family festival! It’s more important than ever this year.

We held a bookmark contest, and these were the four winners. I had them printed locally. They came out wonderful with the store information on the back and credit to the artists. They also won Bookie’s gift cards!

Congratulations, Meg, on finding the Libro.fm Golden Ticket!! She has won an entire year of audiobooks, courtesy of our digital audiobook partner, libro.fm! #librofmgoldenticket

Thanks Trump. The school at which we are CURRENTLY running a book fair just lost the Title I funding to put books into the hands of kids literally in the middle of the book fair. The school lost money. The store lost money. But hey. Rich people got richer.

We’re having a bookmark contest! Any #artists want to enter? #contest #art #artist #indiebookstore #books #booksky 📚💙💙📚 bookiesbookstores.com/events/25402...

This is the late Tuskegee Airman John (Jack) Lyle, a friend to the store for many years. He was a humble man who resisted the term “hero” and loved sailing, which he did into his late 90s. He signed books at one of our most successful events. He won’t be erased. #tuskegeeairmen #dei #blackhistory

With these racists deleting everything about black people from history, I suppose we’ll have to duodecuple down and declare every month as black history month. These people have lost their minds. We will always carry books by and about people of color. Diversity to the end, whenever that will be.

One of our favorite events to host! Kids can come to the store and read to the puppies from SitStayRead. So cute.

If you’re in or around Chicago, Bookie’s is having another blowout sale at our outlet store, BUBO: Bookie’s Used Book Outlet. Come find some amazing deals. March 22nd & 23rd. #booksky 💙 📚#cheapbooks #usedbooks #bargainbooks

So sweet. Made our cold day warmer.

To the degree you can afford it, please continue to support your local bookstores and other independent local retailers that are struggling to survive. We need to invest more in our communities, not less, as the new administration seeks to undermine us and hand the reins over to billionaires. 3/3

Do you have a “Silent Book Club” near you? We have a couple, and they’re wonderful. Great for ADHD. If there’s not one near you, start one! #silentbookclub #bookclubs #adhd

Truth! 💙📚🪐

Better yet, starve the billionaires. We’re about to start paying even more of their share. Shop locally this holiday season. Shop local beyond the holiday season. We’re trying to feed ourselves and our families and make neighborhoods nicer!!!

If you get a gift book from a local indie bookstore and someone else gets you the same book from a giant corporation, return the one from the corporation. They won’t notice. It’s crazy how suddenly convenient the local bookshop is when it’s time for a return. 💙📚

If you're in a restroom in D.C. and someone knocks on the stall, don't answer. It might be Mike Johnson from the Penis Police.

#smallpress #indiepublishers I want to know about you and carry more small presses in my store. I need recommendations. What should we stock? Share this post please. I want to shift my store’s focus. Help! @tenebrouspress.bsky.social @twodollarradio.bsky.social #independentpublishers #smallpresses

One of our “boozy book fairs!” This one is at Soundgrowler Brewing Company in Tinley Park, IL

Finally getting around to reading this classic. So far, it’s fantastic, gripping from the first page. I’m concurrently reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and it’s hitting me in a similar place, though the books are so different.