Three Avenues Bookshop

Three Avenues Bookshop A family-run independent bookstore coming to Chicago's West Lakeview neighborhood

Job opening at Three Avenues Bookshop 🤓📚We are looking for 1 year-round part-time bookseller to join our team at Three A...
06/07/2026

Job opening at Three Avenues Bookshop 🤓📚

We are looking for 1 year-round part-time bookseller to join our team at Three Avenues Bookshop! At least 1 year of bookstore experience or retail and book-related experience is strongly preferred.

Application timeline: This job application will be open from Saturday 06/06/26 - Monday 06/15/26. Submissions for this application will close at 3 pm on Monday 06/15/26.

Link in bio to apply ✨

06/06/2026

you know we’re besties with but did you know we’re HERE today with BOOKS ON BOOKS? 🥲🫶🏻🫡
Perkins is here rn (drinking a latte and eating so it’s a local lovefest) and Tim rolls up soon.
Come say hi!!!! (and buy books…to DELIGHT and ENTERTAIN and EDUCATE yourself…and also so we don’t have to carry them all back up the stairs later 😅)

Join us for a silent book club throughout the summer months, starting today!! 📚Wednesday Evenings from 5:30-7 pmAt Herit...
06/03/2026

Join us for a silent book club throughout the summer months, starting today!! 📚

Wednesday Evenings from 5:30-7 pm

At Heritage Bikes & Coffee!
June 3, June 17, July 1, July 15, July 29, Aug 12, & Aug 26.
📍Meet on Heritage’s patio
2959 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
*Bring a book

At the Lake!
June 10, June 24, July 8, July 22, Aug 5 & Aug 19.
📍Meet by the Chevron Sculpture
Along Lake Michigan, east of Diversery & Sheridan
*Bring a book + blanket/towel

📚About Meet Up & Read
Three Avenues Bookshop is hosting our third annual Summer Reading Challenge! As part of the challenge, folks are encouraged to join one another in community for regular silent book club meetups on Wednesday evenings from 5:30-7 pm. Come for the whole 1.5 hours, or for just part of it.

👊🏽Meet Up & Read Punch Cards!
When you join a Meet Up & Read, make sure to get your punch card AND make sure to get it punched each session! If you join for 5 and 10 sessions during the summer, you’ll get a prize. If you join for ALL 13 sessions, you’ll get an extra special bonus prize!

🥵⛈️Weather-Related Cancellations
If the weather is not suitable for a Meet Up & Read, folks will be notified via email through Eventbrite, as well as through our social media channels. A weather-related cancellation = an automatic punch for your punch card.

Join us for June Book Club as we discuss Whidbey by Q***r author T Kira Madden in honor of Pride Month.Meeting DetailsWh...
05/20/2026

Join us for June Book Club as we discuss Whidbey by Q***r author T Kira Madden in honor of Pride Month.

Meeting Details
When: Sunday, June 14th
What time: 5-6:30 pm
Where: Beermiscuous

Get Your Book!
We’ve got copies of Whidbey in store, so come by anytime. To reserve your copy or have it shipped to you directly, place an order online.

📖 About the Book 📖
A portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his murder—a stunning literary achievement and the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved award-winning memoirist T Kira Madden.

Birdie Chang didn’t know anything about Whidbey Island when she chose it, only that it was about as far away as she could get from her own life. She’s a woman on the run, desperate for an escape from the headlines back home and the look of concern in her girlfriend’s eyes—and from Calvin Boyer, the man who abused her as a child and who’s now resurfaced. On her way, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger on the ferry who offers her a proposition, a sinister solution and plan for revenge.

But Birdie isn’t the only girl Calvin harmed back then. There’s also Linzie King, a former reality TV star who recently wrote all about it in her bestselling memoir. Though the two women have never met, their stories intertwine. Once Birdie arrives on Whidbey, she finally cracks the book’s spine, only to find too much she recognizes in its pages. Soon after, on the other side of the country, Calvin’s loving mother, Mary-Beth, receives a shocking phone call from the police: her only son has been murdered.

Calvin’s death sets into motion a series of events that sends each woman on a desperate search for answers. A complex whodunit told from alternating points of view, Whidbey is searingly perceptive and astonishingly original. Exploring the long reach of violence and our flawed systems of incarceration and rehabilitation, this is a tense and provocative debut that’s sure to incite crucial questions about the pursuit of justice and who has real power over a story: the one who lives it, or the one who tells it?

We have another new bookseller in the store! Please join us in welcoming Hailey to the team! 📣📚Hailey (she/her) has work...
05/17/2026

We have another new bookseller in the store! Please join us in welcoming Hailey to the team! 📣📚

Hailey (she/her) has worked in the book publishing industry for 10 years as a marketing and social media specialist. After working from home, she craved more community and was eager to shift to an in-person working position. Three Avenues is the next chapter in her bookish journey! Hailey loves fantasy, translated literature, comics, romance, and literary fiction. Her most recent favorites have been Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico translated by Sophie Hughes and Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman. Hailey lives in Andersonville and you’ll often find her indulging her stationery obsession at Paper and Pencil. A proud Puerto Rican and Chicagoan (she grew up in Wrigleyville), you can identify her by her Chicago flag finger tattoo.

New Bookseller Alert! 📢📚Meet Sydney (she/her). Sydney is a life-long book lover and resident of the Three Avenues neighb...
05/15/2026

New Bookseller Alert! 📢📚

Meet Sydney (she/her). Sydney is a life-long book lover and resident of the Three Avenues neighborhood! Looking at media and art through a sociopolitical lens, she is always ready with recommendations for books, podcasts, music, movies, & more! She is genre-agnostic but really enjoys reading fantasy, magical realism, romance, feminist literary fiction, and horror. One of Sydney’s favorite reads is The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. Sydney was an early-adopter of StoryGraph and has a ridiculously long TBR! Outside of Three Avenues, she works in artist and filmmaker development with the documentary company, Kartemquin Films. She has also been taking singing lessons for the last few years, so if you hear someone singing in the store, it’s probably her!

Join us in welcoming Sydney to the team! ❤️👋🏽🎉

helloooooo listen up people!! author is coming to the shop next month for a q&a celebrating her new book Not Good Neigh...
05/09/2026

helloooooo listen up people!! author is coming to the shop next month for a q&a celebrating her new book Not Good Neighbors! Sign up on eventbrite and come by to meet other romance lovers, drink free mocktails, get an amazing new book, ANNND grab some new bling courtesy of .chicago!

Genre book clubs are ready and launched!!📚✨Join us for our first ever genre book clubs! Our genre book clubs are new, th...
05/03/2026

Genre book clubs are ready and launched!!📚✨

Join us for our first ever genre book clubs! Our genre book clubs are new, themed book clubs at Three Avenues Bookshop, where each genre will meet 4 times per year. Each book club has a bookseller lead, who may or may not swap out from month-to-month. But if you’re wanting to connect with us to ask any questions about these new book clubs, we’ve included leads below so you know who to ask!

Fantasy Book Club – Led by Megan
Meets in May, August, November, & February
*Meets on Thursday Nights at Beermiscuous

Romance Book Club – Led by Lo
Meets in June, September, December, & March
*Meets on Monday Nights at Beermiscuous

Solidarity Book Club: Decolonize Your Mind – Led by Jordan
Meets in July, October, January, & April
*Meets on Monday Nights at Beermiscuous

Join us as we celebrate Anna Sortino’s birthday and her latest book, Stops Along the Way, at an early release party! 🎈📖W...
05/02/2026

Join us as we celebrate Anna Sortino’s birthday and her latest book, Stops Along the Way, at an early release party! 🎈📖

We are thrilled to host Anna Sortino for an event featuring her latest book: Stops Along the Way. The event will feature a conversation and audience Q&A moderated by Briana Johnson with an author meet & greet and book signing to follow.

When: Saturday, May 16th at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:15 pm)
Where: Three Avenues Bookshop - 3009 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

About the Book: Stops Along the Way
A sunny YA romance about a road trip and life’s unexpected turns from the author of Give Me a Sign.

Iris doesn’t trust the odds. Not when she has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting the same vision diagnosis as her sister, Amelia.

When Iris travels to the east coast to help Amelia drive her things back from college, the last person she expects to run into on campus is Declan, her board game club rival, but he’s also there to drive his brother home for summer break. The unlikely occurrence results in the four of them caravaning together to Nebraska.

Iris and Declan are used to competing with dice and cards across a table, but the romantic feelings unfolding as they drive across the map are a total surprise. The odds of falling in love on the road seem low, especially amid car troubles and sister drama. Can Iris look past probability and embrace the unexpected?

Event Accessibility
Three Avenues Bookshop’s goal is to be a safe, accessible, and inclusive space for all. Please email us at [email protected] to let us know if you need any accommodations for this event, and we’ll do our best to meet them. Accommodations can include but are not limited to the following: space for a wheelchair or other mobility device, masks, answering questions about the space over the phone or email ahead of time, etc. The event is planned to have an ASL interpreter.

Join us as we discuss our May book club pick: The Bottomless Cup by Kevin Boehm! 🍷 Meeting DetailsWhen: Sunday, May 17t...
04/29/2026

Join us as we discuss our May book club pick: The Bottomless Cup by Kevin Boehm! 🍷

Meeting Details
When: Sunday, May 17th
What time: 5-6:30 pm
Where: Beermiscuous

Get Your Book!
We’ve got signed copies of The Bottomless Cup in store, so come by anytime. To reserve your copy or have it shipped to you directly, place an order here.

About the Book 📘
An eye-opening, entertaining, and unflinchingly honest memoir that reads like The Tender Bar meets The Bear
James Beard Award-winning restaurateur Kevin Boehm has opened 40 restaurants in his 30-year career. He’s worked with hard-core line cooks and celebrity chefs, suffered embarrassing setbacks, and won Michelin stars. Today his Boka Group is one of the most successful restaurant companies in the world.
But Boehm’s path was a complicated one. A turbulent family life and a shocking revelation about his father drove him out into the world in search of a home. He found one in restaurants. Amidst other gifted and damaged people, he discovered the magic of hospitality and the thrill of a dining room on the edge of chaos.
The Bottomless Cup is Boehm’s vibrant, funny and frank account of a life in and out of restaurants. This is a memoir about dropping out and finding your place, about opening nights and what comes after, about chefs, partners, guests, and critics. The Bottomless Cup is a story of ambition and adrenaline, of reaching remarkable highs and reckoning with the costs.

Content Warnings
Graphic: Su***de attempt, Addiction, Suicidal Thoughts, Manic Episodes
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Mental Health

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60657

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