RoscoeBooks

Soooooooo yep this is happening! 😍

Our next book club pick is none other than the runaway hit of the early summer — Caro Claire Burke’s YESTERYEAR!

The book club is meeting Tuesday, June 23, at 7:30 pm, and all are welcome.

ICYMI, last week, Chicago author Daniel Kraus () pulled off a stunning upset and won the friggin’ Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel ANGEL DOWN. Woooohooooo, Chicago! And congrats, Daniel!!!!

Here’s a little more about the novel: Angel Down plunges you into the heart of World War I and weaves a polyphonic tale of survival, supernatural wonder, and moral conflict.

We have several paperback copies, so stop in and grab one and immerse yourself in this brilliant, inventive novel.

Bidding ends tonight at 9 pm CT -- get in there to win this great prize (and support a great nonprofit)!

Hey Chicago, how would you like to host your own party at the bookstore?

We’re supporting our friends at by donating this prize to their silent auction. The winning bidder gets snacks and wine during a two-hour party, and 10% off all purchases. Perfect for a book club meeting or any other special occasion.

Bid on this auction now at the link in the first comment.

Hey Chicago, how would you like to host your own party at the bookstore?

We’re supporting our friends at by donating this prize to their silent auction. The winning bidder gets snacks and wine during a two-hour party, and 10% off all purchases. Perfect for a book club meeting or any other special occasion.

Bid on this auction now at the link in the first comment.

We’re decked out in our finest spring attire and can’t wait to welcome you to the store on Saturday for Independent Bookstore Day!

In addition to participating in the annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl, here’s what else we have planned for the day:

🌸 Exclusive merchandise, including custom enamel pins designed right here in Chicagoland and only available in this market!

🍪 Home-baked treats from our favorite cookbooks!

🎧 From our partners at Libro.fm, a golden ticket for one lucky winner...good for an entire YEAR of audiobooks!

📚 Bookish giveaways all day long, including advance reader copies for anyone who spends $50!

Rest up, Chicago. And let’s have a day!

If you haven’t already, mark your calendar now for April 25, the best day of the year: Independent Bookstore Day 2026!!!! 🎉📚🤩

This year, we are participating along with more than 1,600 indie bookstores nationwide and 81 just here in Chicagoland.

And here’s more good news: The Chicago Bookstore Crawl is back again this year. Visit 10 stores, get 10% off at any participating store the rest of the year. 15 stores, 15% off!

Indie Bookstore is always one of the wildest, most fun days of the year. We can’t wait to see you on the 25th!

Tomorrow night at 6:30 pm! Come celebrate the release of this terrific new anthology of essays, poetry, stories, and more all about the Great Lakes. Edited by editor-in-chief , On An Inland Sea features 33 writers grappling with the vastness of the lakes and the vastness of experience living alongside them.

We hope you can join us!

It’s been a hard, weird week, month, year, and one that has left me (Erika 👋) feeling paralyzed and powerless far too often. It’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day motion of running a store, being a mom, trying to keep it all together…but a big world will always assert itself, whether you (or I) want to engage with the worst of it or not.

Throughout our 11 years of existence, two of our core beliefs have always been that: 1) books are agents for hope, change and goodness, and always have been, and 2) third spaces are essential to the life and character of the communities in which they operate. These beliefs inform everything we do here in our little corner of this vibrant, beautiful city.

Because of these beliefs, we will remain open tomorrow, 1/30, and will be donating 20% of our sales tomorrow and through the weekend to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Whether you’re looking for something special to read or just a cozy place full of like-minded people with whom to share community, we’re here for you and want to hang out with you. We also have free ICE whistles (while supplies last).

To our friends in Minnesota, Chicago and beyond who are actively protesting the injustices perpetrated by this administration, and putting their own safety at risk every day in the process: we are SO proud of you, and we stand with you in hope and solidarity, now and always. Read books, help each other whenever and however you can, and seriously:
ABOLISH. ICE.

Given today’s extreme cold, we’ll be open for reduced hours today. Come pick up that special order, or something to tide you over this frigid weekend…and then get inside and get cozy! Stay warm, friends! 🥶🥶

Yes! What they said. 😂

The delays and damaged shipments and wrong orders and etc. have made this holiday season very challenging, for sure. Thank you so much to every one of you who asked about an order and when we told you we were still waiting, you just shrugged and said, "No worries, it'll get here when it gets here. You're doing your best." WE SO APPRECIATE YOU. Yes, the pickings are a bit slim on the shelves right now, but there are so many treasures still to be found -- and of course we're happy to help match you up with a perfect book we do have in stock. Thanks for being such a supportive community, Roscoe Village and beyond!

We are taking a brief pause from the holiday chaos to say, enjoy the browse. This year, due to several factors beyond our control (publisher consolidation, warehouse overloads, too many robots?!), deliveries are delayed more than we’ve ever seen in our 11 holiday seasons of co-ownership. Orders that were supposed to arrive at the bookstore in 2 days are now taking 8, 10 days or more. Yesterday, we opened a desperately needed restock order to find that even though it was our address on the label, it was some other bookstore’s order inside! We often joke that we are out of books two days before Christmas, but this year it’s painfully true. And what’s worse is that we know that all the books on your list are coming… sometime in January. And then after those books are here, the bills for all those books that you wanted in December will arrive. But by then Chicagoans will be hibernating, not shopping a stupendously well-stocked bookstore. So what we are asking today is if you come to the bookstore, we likely don’t have every book on your very specific list, but we do have lots of treasures. Because we are a mission-driven feminist bookstore, every book on our shelves has been carefully curated for you to discover. So please stop by and, as Lynn always says, enjoy the browse.
With love,
Lynn & Sarah