Bucket o’Blood

Bucket o'Blood is located at 2307 North Milwaukee Avenue near the California Blue Line stop in Logan Square.  Bucket o'Blood is an independent genre used Book and Record shop specializing in speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. It's a small shop but a great place to pick up genre fiction or look at records.

The Gallery Bookstore

The Gallery Bookstore is located in Boystown off the Belmont Red/Brown Line at 923 West Belmont Avenue. This independent bookstore opened in 1927 and buy and sells used books and magazines. They also sell a variety of rare and antique books. They house a wide variety and large selection of genre books and the stacks are [...]

Women and Children First

Women and Children First is an independent bookstore located at 5233 North Clark Street . It opened in 1979 and is the largest feminist bookstore in the United States. The shop is a diverse bookstore promoting books written by women, children's books, and LGBTQ literature. Women and Children First bookstore is one of the bookstores [...]

Lit Fest

Lit Fest is a literary festival that happens on Printers Row in June. The festival is packed with tents of different book stores, shops, publishers, writers and even historic art or music. There were also stages with poets and writers reading their work. Several of the events were free, but a couple were ticketed events [...]