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06/14/2026

CALLING ALL CUBS FANS!! 💙⚾️🐻 Grab some friends and join us for an author event & Cubs trivia night at the bookstore!

Do you think you have what it takes to win Cubs Trivia??

Author Al Yellon has written about the Chicago Cubs for years. And he’s designing trivia questions for this event, so make sure to study up!

Teams may contain between 2-6 people. All ages are welcome! Sign up for a team with your friends by RSVPing a batch of tickets. OR if you’re flying solo, we’ll team you up with a group when you arrive!

You’ll also hear from our author at the end of the night, get to ask some questins, and have the chance to grab a copy of his latest book, THE INCREDIBLE CHICAGO CUBS TRIVIA BOOK: 300 Questions for the Super-Fan.

The winning teams will receive Three Avenues Bookshop gift cards and other bookish prizes! 📚

Where?
Three Avenues Bookshop
3009 N Southport Avenue
Chicago, IL 60657

When?
Thursday, June 18, 7:00-9:00 pm
Doors open at 6:40 pm
**Don’t worry — there’s no Cubs game 😉

The event will be a BYOB event! 🍻

About the Author
Al Yellon is the founder and editor in chief of the popular SB Nation Cubs site Bleed Cubbie Blue. He is author of A Season for the Ages and the coauthor of Cubs By The Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Cubs by Uniform Number. Yellon lives in Chicago, Illinois.

06/13/2026

Attention: Parents, caregivers, and artists!! ✨

We are thrilled to host artist and author Rani Ban for an event featuring her debut book: This Is Terrible, This Is Wonderful: Dispatches from the Postpartum Universe. The event will feature a poetry zine workshop for mothers and caretakers, followed by an author meet & greet and book signing.

When: Saturday, June 20th at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:45 pm)
Where: Three Avenues Bookshop
3009 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL 60657

About the Event 🧵🪡🗒️🎨
This is Terrible, This is Wonderful is not meant to tidy the complicated postpartum experience, but rather, act as a bridge between how you feel and how you think you should feel. Rani’s hand-written and hand-illustrated essays and poems encapsulate her own journey through new motherhood.

“Nothing about my first year as a human mother unfolded the way I imagined. I had prepared for a baby but I had not prepared for how profoundly uncomfortable I would feel inside of the new life I had hoped for. I felt altered, disoriented and totally unsure of how to inhabit my new role. I quietly navigated waves of grief and doubt while surrounded by messages about ‘bouncing back’ and ‘enjoying this magical time’.” – Rani Ban

To foster the community of parents she hopes This is Terrible, This is Wonderful builds, Rani invites mothers and caretakers to take part in a collective act of creation: folding, stitching, writing, and decorating a low-fi poetry zine together. Each attendee will leave with a small, hand-stitched and hand-written artifact of their own inner life.

Copies of This is Terrible, This is Wonderful will be available for purchase during the event, and participants will have the opportunity to get their books signed by Rani Ban.

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 😅)

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.

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?

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.

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! ❤️👋🏽🎉

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!

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

Address

3009 N Southport Avenue
Chicago, IL
60657

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 7pm
Wednesday	11am - 7pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	11am - 7pm
Saturday	10am - 7pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://threeavenuesbookshop.com/

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