Name: "Vinyl & Book" Night
Start: 2025-08-20
End: 2026-04-01
Location: Eli Tea Bar

After the Burn: A Guided Journal Healing Series with Leilani Garrett

Thu, 23 Oct at 06:30 pm Da Book Joint USD 17 to 49

Elyse Myers "That's a Great Question, I'd Love To Tell You"

Fri, 07 Nov at 07:00 pm Everybody's Coffee (Wilson Abbey) USD 45 to 66

Book Launch Celebration

Sat, 06 Dec at 06:30 pm 3850 S Indiana Ave Free

Author Talk: Susan Orlean, "Joyride" (IN PERSON)

Fri, 24 Oct at 06:00 pm American Writers Museum USD 10 to 13

November Book Club with Three Avenues: Big Chief

Sun, 16 Nov at 05:00 pm Beermiscuous Free

KAPWA II: Shake, Rattle and Roll (18+)

Wed, 29 Oct at 07:30 pm The Understudy Coffee and Books Free

Daddy Daughter Dance Book Launch & Dance Party with Author Malcolm Newsome

Fri, 24 Oct at 06:30 pm Three Avenues Bookshop USD 0 to 23

Remembering Your Ancestral Fire Audiobook Release Party

Fri, 21 Nov at 08:00 pm UncommonGround - Lakeview USD 34

Book Club Celebration

Thu, 23 Oct at 05:00 pm Harold Washington Library, Winter Garden on the 9th floor

Let the Right Book In

Fri, 24 Oct at 07:00 pm Exile in Bookville Free

Chicago City Builders Book Club: Grafters and Goo Goos

Wed, 05 Nov at 06:00 pm Arup Free

A ROYAL AFFAIR - A CAVALCADE OF AUTHORS EVENT

Fri, 24 Oct at 07:30 pm Alhambra Palace Restaurant USD 37 to 61

Ladies Who Lit Presents "Meet & Mingle" with the Author: Angela Flournoy

Thu, 23 Oct at 07:00 pm Cafe Yaya USD 36 to 63

Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show: Repair / Reparar

Fri, 14 Nov at 07:00 pm Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Free

Authors on Tap: Lily King and Lindsay Hunter

Thu, 23 Oct at 07:00 pm Exile in Bookville Free

Margaux Eliot Book Release Y2k Party

Thu, 06 Nov at 06:30 pm Volumes Bookcafe USD 22 to 39

Book Launch: Dandelion: A Memoir in Essays by Danielle Bainbridge

Wed, 19 Nov at 07:00 pm Women & Children First Free

Book Launch: The Slightest Green: A Novel by Sahar Mustafah

Fri, 14 Nov at 07:00 pm Women & Children First Free

Chicago, IL - Silent Disco! at Punch Bowl Social

Sat, 22 Mar Punch Bowl Social Chicago USD 12

Paul Martínez Pompa's Book Launch

Sat, 25 Oct at 07:00 pm Pilsen Arts & Community House

Dominic Hoffman Book Launch & Signing

Fri, 24 Oct at 06:00 pm Da Book Joint USD 0 to 20

Q&A and Book Signing with Kelsey Humphreys

Tue, 28 Oct at 07:00 pm The Last Chapter Book Shop USD 43

Penn Jillette "Felony Juggler" Book talk and signing

Thu, 23 Oct at 06:30 pm The Book Cellar Free

The Gospel Revisited: A Gathering of Grace and Renewal

Sat, 15 Nov at 02:00 pm St. Stephen AME Church USD 0 to 23

Play Mahjong! Book Release Party

Tue, 28 Oct at 06:30 pm Barcocina Lakeview USD 18 to 29

Speculative Fiction Book Club

Sun, 02 Nov at 05:00 pm Slant of Light Books Free

German Graphic Novel Book Club: 'Anna,' by Mia Oberländer

Wed, 10 Dec at 06:00 pm Goethe-Institut Chicago Free

SoL Book Club: Translated and Global Lit

Wed, 29 Oct at 06:30 pm Slant of Light Books Free

Leaf Town Forever Book Launch

Sun, 26 Oct at 02:00 pm Colvin House Free

Spooky Blind Date With A Book Swap

Thu, 23 Oct at 07:00 pm The Last Chapter Book Shop USD 22

BARE Book Club Chicago - Naked Thirst

Sun, 26 Oct at 06:30 pm 3851 W Fullerton Ave USD 27

Queer Literary Horror Series Fun Run with Author David Jay Collins

Wed, 29 Oct at 06:00 pm The Lost Hours USD 18 to 39

Letters to My Broken & Becoming - Book Talk/Workshop

Sat, 25 Oct at 12:00 pm 1506 W 53rd St USD 0 to 13

The Underground Writers Society at Dorothy

Wed, 05 Nov at 06:00 pm Dorothy Free

Book Launch: Kin: The Future of Family by Sophie Lucido Johnson

Thu, 13 Nov at 07:00 pm Women & Children First Free

2025 Fuller Award Ceremony for Jackie Taylor

Mon, 20 Oct at 06:30 pm Black Ensemble Theater Free

Leah Johnson & George M. Johnson present THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR

Tue, 02 Dec at 06:30 pm Women & Children First Free

Barry Pearce - 'The Plan of Chicago' - Book Release Party at Martyrs'

Sat, 15 Nov at 01:00 pm 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60613

Book Talk: Coltan Scrivner - Morbidly Curious

Tue, 04 Nov at 06:00 pm International Museum of Surgical Science Free

Q&A And Book Signing With Sarah Chamberlin

Thu, 06 Nov at 07:00 pm The Last Chapter Book Shop USD 27

Women Reading Who-Dun-Its in West Loop

Tue, 11 Nov at 06:00 pm 800 W Fulton Market Free

RL Book Club #103: "Our Share of the Night"

Tue, 21 Oct at 07:30 pm Reed's Local

Jesse James Rose in Conversation with Matt Rodrigues

Wed, 22 Oct at 06:30 pm Three Avenues Bookshop USD 0 to 34

Pocket Con 2025 : The Free Comic Convention Celebrating Characters and Creators of Color

Sat, 29 Nov at 12:00 pm Chicago History Museum

Ali Gordon - We Have Reached The End Of Our Show

Tue, 21 Oct at 06:30 pm Volumes Bookcafe USD 19 to 22

Lit & Luz: 2025 Keynote Address with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Sun, 09 Nov at 02:00 pm 6212 N Clark St Free

Chicago City Builders Book Club: Nature's Metropolis, Part One

Thu, 22 Jan at 06:00 pm Arup Free

Writing a Global Life in Greek: An Evening with Gazmend Kapllani

Thu, 04 Dec at 07:00 pm National Hellenic Museum Free

Book Club Run of Refugee High with Elly Fishman

Sat, 22 Nov at 10:00 am Chi Tea USD 18 to 39

Made in Chicago Fun Run/Walk with David Hammond and Monica Eng

Sat, 08 Nov at 10:00 am Avalon Branch, Chicago Public Library

Chicago City Builders Book Club: Nature's Metropolis, Part Two

Wed, 04 Mar at 06:00 pm Arup Free

Book Talk: Wendell McConnaha - Losing Sight of the Shore

Sun, 07 Dec at 02:00 pm International Museum of Surgical Science Free

Chicago City Builders Book Club: Nature's Metropolis, Part Three

Wed, 15 Apr at 06:00 pm Arup Free

Audacious Book Tour- Chicago

Tue, 28 Oct at 06:00 pm Macy's Lower Level (Barbaras Bookstore) USD 35

Conscious Selling: Chicago Book Launch

Wed, 10 Dec at 05:30 pm 100 S Wacker Dr #600 Free

Q&A and Book Signing With Rebecca M. Zornow

Sun, 23 Nov at 04:00 pm The Last Chapter Book Shop USD 27

National Hobbit Day

Tue, 21 Oct at 10:00 am Lilliput Books Free

Parking Cameron Crowe: The Uncool Book Tour

Sun, 02 Nov at 01:00 am Athenaeum Theatre - IL

American Prophets: Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen" (IN PERSON)

Wed, 10 Dec at 06:00 pm American Writers Museum USD 10 to 13

Listening Tour Stop with Amy Kemp - Hosted by Taina Rodriguez-Encarnacion

Wed, 21 Jan at 07:00 pm 4042 N Pulaski Rd suite 1 USD 34

"American Sirens" by Kevin Hazzard

Fri, 20 Feb at 07:00 pm TBD

Running Tour of The Salt Shed with Photographer Sandra Steinbrecher

Sun, 16 Nov at 02:00 pm The Salt Shed USD 18 to 55

Get Lit: Santa's Book Fair

Tue, 02 Dec at 05:30 pm American Writers Museum USD 8 to 29

"The Sentence" by Louise Erdrich

Sun, 16 Nov at 07:00 pm TBD

ISPS-US 2025 Annual Conference: Bridging the Divides

Sat, 08 Nov at 08:00 am UIC Student Center West USD 23 to 450

"Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney

Sun, 15 Mar at 12:00 pm TBD

"Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close" by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Sat, 13 Dec at 01:00 pm TBD

DOM’S LITERARY GROUP

Thu, 15 May at 07:00 pm 2255 S Michigan Ave Free

Silent Book Club - Eli Tea Bar- Sponsored By 40th Ward Dems

Wed, 08 Jan at 07:00 pm Eli Tea Bar, North Clark Street, Chicago, IL, USA

Cameron Crowe: The Uncool Book Tour