Unabridged Bookstore
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📍Chicago, IL
📍Chicago, IL
"There is something delicious about the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."
-Beatrix Potter
#unabooksboardthoughts
#beatrixpotter
-Beatrix Potter
#unabooksboardthoughts
#beatrixpotter
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"There is something delicious about the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."
-Beatrix Potter
#unabooksboardthoughts
#beatrixpotter
-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...
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...
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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...
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
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
#unabooksboardthoughts
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"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
-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
#unabooksboardthoughts
Staff Pick Saturday, a few books we think you should be reading!
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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!
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!
November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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!
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!
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!
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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!
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!
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...
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...
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"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...
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
unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reporting live from New Release Day! Come see what's new on our shelves:
unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week
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
-Rebecca Solnit
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"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
-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...
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
October 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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...
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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!
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all."
-Robert Frost, October
#unabooksboardthoughts
#robertfrost
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"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
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...
October 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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...
Staff Pick Saturday, bringing you a bunch of this week’s new releases!
read some reviews here:
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
read some reviews here:
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
October 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Staff Pick Saturday, bringing you a bunch of this week’s new releases!
read some reviews here:
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
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
it should look like the future you are dreaming."
-Alice Walker
#unabooksboardthoughts
#alicewalker
October 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Look closely at the present you are constructing:
it should look like the future you are dreaming."
-Alice Walker
#unabooksboardthoughts
#alicewalker
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
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
September 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"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
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
September 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist is here! The winner will be announced on Nov. 10th!
unabridgedbookstore.com/list/2025-bo...
unabridgedbookstore.com/list/2025-bo...
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist is here! The winner will be announced on Nov. 10th!
unabridgedbookstore.com/list/2025-bo...
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
-Thomas Pynchon
#unabooksboardthoughts
#thomaspynchon
September 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
-Thomas Pynchon
#unabooksboardthoughts
#thomaspynchon
-Thomas Pynchon
#unabooksboardthoughts
#thomaspynchon
and don’t forget about our QBC meeting this week! Be here Tuesday or Wednesday evening to chat about EVENINGS & WEEKENDS by Oisín McKenna!
unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2025-0...
unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2025-0...
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
and don’t forget about our QBC meeting this week! Be here Tuesday or Wednesday evening to chat about EVENINGS & WEEKENDS by Oisín McKenna!
unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2025-0...
unabridgedbookstore.com/event/2025-0...
here’s what we’ve been reading this week!
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
your turn! tell us what you’re currently reading!
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
your turn! tell us what you’re currently reading!
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
here’s what we’ve been reading this week!
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
your turn! tell us what you’re currently reading!
unabridgedbookstore.com/staff-pick-s...
your turn! tell us what you’re currently reading!
September 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“there are new books” - Shane, Unabridged General Manager
Come see what’s new this week:
unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week
Come see what’s new this week:
unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week
September 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“there are new books” - Shane, Unabridged General Manager
Come see what’s new this week:
unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week
Come see what’s new this week:
unabridgedbookstore.com/new-this-week