“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
―Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

• Order books online
  • Visit our website, www.volumesbooks.com, and browse our entire selection (and basically every book in print that we don’t have in store) online. Pick up your purchases in store or...
  • Beginning this August, sign up for our home delivery service. We can also ship any book you want direct to your home.
     
• Check out our audio book selection
  • In partnership with Libro.fm, you can now buy audio books from us. Libro also has an app, and if you download the app from our Libro.fm/volumesbooks page, every purchase you make (including monthly subscription services) will be supporting your local independent bookstore, instead of, you know, Jeff Bezos. From now until the end of September use the code WICKERPARKSUMMER (all caps) and get 20% off!
     
• E-Books Forthcoming! Stay tuned. We're working on it.

IN OUR STORE…

• Host an event! From readings to book clubs, comedy shows to children's parties, we can do it all!
• Attend an event! We host a robust schedule of regular and new events every month. Never been to a reading? Try one! Want to start a reading series of your own? Cool! Come in and chat with us.
• Suggest an event! We recognize that we are part of a vibrant community, and we aim to bring events that are shaped by all of you!

• June 25 - Saudade Anthology Launch feat. Ben Tanzer, Lily Mooney, Chris Reid and Steve Karas @ 8 PM
• June 28 - Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?  Haymarket Books Books Book Launch @ 7 PM
• June 29 - New all-female comedy series You Joke Like a Girl @ 7 PM
• July 5 - Poetry Reading feat. Laura Marie Marciano, Kenyatta Rogers and Keith S. Wilson @ 7 PM
• July 6 - "Summer Feelz" Open Mic Night @ 7:30 PM
• July 7 - Volumes Book of the Month Party @ 7 PM (Celebrating Chicago by Brian Doyle)
• July 9 - Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge Book Launch @ 7 PM
• July 12 - Hella Immaculate Stand Up Comedy Series @ 7:30 PM
• July 14 - Sci-Fi Book Club @ 8 PM (Discussing Kindred by Octavia Butler)
• July 15 - A Haiku Party celebrating local writer Bruno Pieroni @ 7 PM
• July 28 - Moloko House Reading
• July 31 - Harry Potter & The Cursed Child Release Party @ 8:30 PM - Tickets are almost sold out, so grab yours HERE today!

• July 10 - Budding Poet Day (ages 8-12)
• July 17 - Intro to Improv (ages 10-14)
• July 18 - Puppet Making & The Story (ages 5-8)
• July 24 - Book Origami (ages 10-18)
• July 25 - Intro to Improv (ages 15-18)