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Not-for-profit academic bookstore dedicated to the browsing experience, est. 1961

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On this week's front table, delve into the mysteries of time, explore the dynamic work of an artist in decline, and read...
09/02/2026

On this week's front table, delve into the mysteries of time, explore the dynamic work of an artist in decline, and read an electrifying epic of q***r life in Jamaica. Then, take a great critic and theorist's tour through contemporary thought, experience a novel of family and the escape from it, revisit a period of conflagration between insurance and race, and rediscover a shocking allegory of conquest and empire. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Princeton University Press
Riverhead Books
Thames & Hudson
Other Press
W. W. Norton & Company
Doubleday Books

How is fall already almost here!? Check out our upcoming events for September at the Co-op! Find out more and RSVP at se...
09/01/2026

How is fall already almost here!? Check out our upcoming events for September at the Co-op! Find out more and RSVP at semcoop.com/event or by tapping the link in our bio. 📚🍁🍂📖

Check out our new ✨merch✨shop! Add our logos to T-shirts, coffee mugs, throws, bags and more! Visit seminarycoopbookstor...
08/27/2026

Check out our new ✨merch✨shop! Add our logos to T-shirts, coffee mugs, throws, bags and more!

Visit seminarycoopbookstore.threadless.com today or tap the link in our bio to shop now! 👚📕☕️📒

On this week's front table, learn how AI creates an undemocratic state, get to know the characters of the Linotype, and ...
08/26/2026

On this week's front table, learn how AI creates an undemocratic state, get to know the characters of the Linotype, and step through the looking glass and into a chilling Gothic. Then, challenge the stigma around pregnancy loss, lose yourself in a novel of family secrets and reunions in Rwanda, explore the history of creativity through the Greek muses, and immerse yourself in a Catalan classic that spans generations. Find more information about these titles and more at semcoop.com or by tapping the link in our bio.
Liveright Publishing
HarperVia Books
Bloomsbury Academic
Princeton University Press
Hogarth Press
Grand Central Publishing
Modern Library

You heard right! Our Summer BOGO has been extended to this Saturday! See you in the stacks!!
08/25/2026

You heard right! Our Summer BOGO has been extended to this Saturday! See you in the stacks!!

On this week's front table, follow a world-traveling and Marxist intellectual, hear the testimonies of civilians in Gaza...
08/20/2026

On this week's front table, follow a world-traveling and Marxist intellectual, hear the testimonies of civilians in Gaza, and explore a novel of bureaucracy and humanity. Then, trace the complex identities of a pioneering Modernist, wander the streets of Paris, examine contemporary art's Black masculine and Black maternal, and summon the spirit of the Midwest cowboy. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
Harvard University Press
Other Press
Peirene Press
Yale University Press
The New York Review of Books
University of Chicago Press
Triquarterly Books

📚Beat the end-of-summer blues with our End-of-Summer Stock-Up BOGO Sale! 🎉🎉This Friday-Monday only, buy one book at full...
08/19/2026

📚Beat the end-of-summer blues with our End-of-Summer Stock-Up BOGO Sale! 🎉🎉

This Friday-Monday only, buy one book at full price and get your second book of equal or lesser value at 40% off!

*These promotions are only available for in-store purchases, do not apply to non-book items, and promos do not stack

Poetry that lingers long after the final verse. Join on Wednesday, September 9 for an evening with aja monet, the accla...
08/06/2026

Poetry that lingers long after the final verse. Join on Wednesday, September 9 for an evening with aja monet, the acclaimed poet, performer, and author whose work explores love, liberation, memory, and resistance through the rhythms of poetry, jazz, and soul. Reserve your seats today by tapping the link in our bio!

On this week's front table, reconsider the invasive species, go inside Russia's war for global order, and read the final...
08/05/2026

On this week's front table, reconsider the invasive species, go inside Russia's war for global order, and read the final novel of a Brazilian master. Then, sample the visceral short work of a pioneering Surrealist and lose your place in a novel of a woman experiencing false memories. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.
W. W. Norton & Company
Liveright Publishing
Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
Doubleday Books
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
NYU Press
Algonquin Books

We are SO EXCITED to announce that we will be hosting a conversation with Nikita Gill who will be discussing her newest ...
08/04/2026

We are SO EXCITED to announce that we will be hosting a conversation with Nikita Gill who will be discussing her newest book STYX: THE RIVER! She will be joined in conversation by Erika L. Sánchez on Thursday, September 17th at 7pm at the Co-op. A book signing will follow the discussion.

Tickets are on sale now on Eventbrite! Tap the link in our bio for more information!


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5751 S Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL
60637

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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+17737524381

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