Restoried Bookshop

Reduced Hours - July 4th
2025-07-04 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We don’t get a lot of days where we’re all off together, so we’ll be doing reduced hours on July 4th so we can spend some time with family. We’ll be open for y’all to swing by and grab a new book to take with you to the beach or cookout from 12pm to 4pm!

Closed for a Private Event
2025-06-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’ll be closed from 3pm-5pm. Be sure to come through earlier in the day to hang out!

May-June Book Club - Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare!
2025-06-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Our “Final Fridays” Book Club had to get readjusted due to a very busy May and an end-of-June vacation, so we’ll be gathering on Saturday, June 21st to discuss Every Drop Is A Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto. No spoilers- but we really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to dig into it with y’all. At our last book club, folks asked about potlucking so we’ll bring some snacks- feel free to bring something small to share if you’re so inclined (but no pressure). Pick up a copy in-person ahead of time at the shop!
About Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare:
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s wrenching and sensational debut story collection presents a Hawai’i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth.
A childhood encounter with a wild pua’a (pig) on the haunted Pali highway portends one young woman’s fraught relationship with her pregnant body. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in a giant flower. A kanaka writer, mid-manuscript, feels her raw pages quaking and knocking in the briefcase.
Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare is both a fierce love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology, and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory threatening to erupt with violent secrets.

Private Event
2025-06-20 16:00 - 21:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’ll be hosting a private event for a member of our community, so we’ll be closing shop at 4pm to get ready!

Closed for Juneteenth
2025-06-19 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’ll be closed to take our kiddos out to celebrate Juneteenth. There’s a lot going on in the city- and we can’t wait to hear how you spent the day when we’re back in the shop.

Second Saturdays Silent Reading Club
2025-06-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Trying to work your way through your TBR?
Looking to get out into community and enjoy a relaxed afternoon?
Want to join a book club, but super low-stakes?
Enjoy spending time around people, but in an introvert-friendly way?
We got you.
Join Restoried Bookshop’s Second Saturdays Silent Reading Club! We provide space and ambience (think lofi and maybe some hip hop instrumentals). You just need to bring yourself (and/or a friend) and whatever you’re reading (or trying to read). If you need something new to dive into, show up a little early and we’ll help you find just the right book. You can even bring in a beverage from your favorite local establishment or home. Silent reading for 45 minutes, and then with the last 15 feel free to say hi to your neighbors and talk about what you’ve been reading. Or finish up that last chapter, whatever you decide. Come build community with us the second Saturday of each month!

Final Fridays Book Club - May 2025
2025-05-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Take our survey by April 30th to help select what we’ll be reading in May!

Closing Early for a Private Event
2025-05-22 17:00 - 21:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’ll be hosting a private event in support of some great community work, so our shop will be closing early at 5pm

Shop Closed - Off Site Event
2025-05-20 - 2025-05-21 | IL
While our shop will be closed these two days, we’ll be popping up and bringing our love of books to a conference here in the city. Maybe we’ll see you there!

Book Release Party - Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
2025-05-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Restoried Bookshop is excited to host Chicago’s own Mia P. Manansala and celebrate her YA debut- Death in the Cards! Her Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series is very popular with our at our shop and we cannot wait to introduce her YA novel to our community.
Mia will be joined in conversation by Gloria Chao for an exciting afternoon discussion. Adding to the festivities, Camelia Bakes is providing a beautiful cake to celebrate Mia’s YA debut and Salamat Designs will be selling handmade jewelry benefitting meals at an elementary school in the Philippines.
Copies of her book will be available to purchase at the event in both hardcover and paperback. You don’t want to miss this exciting event and chance to be among the first to pick up your own copy of Death in the Cards!

Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series and the forthcoming YA novel DEATH IN THE CARDS (May 13, 2025). She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.
A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrasti-baking, playing RPGs and otome games, reading cozy mysteries and diverse romance, and gazing lovingly at her dog.
Find her on Facebook and Instagram: @MPMtheWriter
Check out her website: www.miapmanansala.com
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Title: Death in the Cards
Publisher: Delacorte Press (May 13, 2025)
ISBN: 9780593897928
(Cover designer: Ray Shappell ; Cover artist: Alex Cabal)
The young adult debut from the award-winning author of Arsenic and Adobo! When a high school tarot reader’s latest client goes missing after a troubling reading, she must apply everything she’s learned from her private investigator mother to solve a case of her own.
Danika Dizon is a natural problem solver. Thanks to her private investigator mom and mystery author dad, she’s well equipped with the skills to offer guidance to anxious classmates who come to her for tarot readings between classes. For a price, of course.
But one of her clients isn’t just worried about finals. Something or someone has her terrified. And when the girl vanishes after an ominous reading, her younger sister Gaby begs for Danika’s help to find her. Danika takes the case to prove to her parents that she’s an ace detective—and that her deck is never wrong. It says change is coming . . .
What starts off as a compelling challenge quickly devolves into a darker mystery. Turns out the missing girl was living a secret life. A life that somebody wants to keep buried. If Danika’s not careful, the Death card that started it all might no longer be symbolic—it could be fate.

Special Hours
2025-05-14 11:00 - 16:30 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’re joining a special AANHPI Heritage Month program today and will open late at 1:00pm.
We’re also parents and will be closing at 4:30pm so we can attend an important event for one of our kids.

Closing at 3pm - Catch us at the American Writers Museum's Get Lit: Grown-Up Book Fair!
2025-05-13 | IL
We’ll be closing early to join the American Writers Museum for this year’s Get Lit: Grown-Up Book Fair. Find more information about the event and book your tickets on the American Writers Museum’s website! And use our discount code for $10 off your tickets!

Second Saturdays - Silent Reading Book Club!
2025-05-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’re excited to offer a new book club for those that like things a little less structured- a Silent Reading Book Club!
Step 1) Bring whatever you’re reading, or have been meaning to read. If you don’t have a book in mind, show up a little early and we can help connect you with a book to purchase and dive into.
Step 2) At 3pm, we’ll turn on some low-key music to match the energy and spend the next 45 minutes relaxing and reading in community with friends and neighbors.
Step 3) Spend the next 15 minutes getting to know your neighbors, asking each other about what you’ve each been reading (or trying to get to a good stopping point in your book, we won’t argue with that).
**Please note that we will be closing the shop early at 5pm this day to get set up for a private event**

Closed - AANHPI Heritage Month Offsite Event
2025-05-08 | IL
We’ll be closed to table at an AANHPI Heritage Month event in the suburbs.

Asian American Is Not A Color - Paperback Launch with OiYan Poon
2025-05-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join Restoried Bookshop in celebrating the paperback launch of Asian American Is Not A Color by OiYan Poon!
OiYan will be joined in conversation by Jianan Shi. We are excited to host this event to start off AANHPI Heritage Month with a conversation that explores race, affirmative action, and family.
OiYan Poon is a Co-Director of the College Admissions Future Co-Laborative and consultant on higher education equity to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s office. Her book Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family has been recognized with Outstanding Book Awards from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Education Research Association. She is also a parent rep on the LSC at her daughter’s school on the Northwest side.
Copies of the newly released, paperback edition of her book will be available for sale at the event. Don’t miss this chance to join us for an evening of community building and conversation!
Light snacks will be provided.

Closed - International Day of the Worker
2025-05-01 | IL
We’ll be closed and joining the Book Worker Contingent at the International Day of the Worker March.
For our kids. For our communities. We’ll see you there.

Independent Bookstore Day - Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl 2025!
2025-04-26 09:00 - 18:30 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Restoried Bookshop is proud to join with more than 50 fellow independent bookstores in Chicagoland to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day!
We will be opening our doors early April 26th at 9:00AM. Why are we opening early? Well, for those intrepid book lovers able to visit 10 participating, independent bookstores -and get a stamp in your passport from each- you’ll receive 10% off at all participating bookstores until Independent Bookstore Day 2026! Feeling extra bold? If you make it to 15 shops, you’ll receive a 15% discount for the next year’s worth of reading joy. All that, while supporting Chicagoland’s independent booksellers and earning some bragging rights 🙂 Purchases aren’t required for a stamp- though they are appreciated <3
We will be offering some special Indie Bookstore Day swag for purchase and maybe even inviting a few friends to join us for the day.
On the day of the crawl, don’t forget to post pics of your haul using the hashtags #TEAMINDIE and #CHILOVEBOOKS and tag the bookstores you visited!

Final Fridays Book Club - April 2025
2025-04-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
This is our very first book club!
Join Restoried Bookshop as we discuss April’s book- Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd. This compelling and timely book weaves together important conversations around how we see and talk about Palestinians, the implications thereof, and how we can engage in a deeper recognition.
Perfect Victims is published by Haymarket Books, and can be purchased in-store or via Bookshop.org.
If you’d like to cast a vote for what we’ll read together in May, please visit our poll!

Socialist Reconstruction Public Study (2nd Session)
2025-04-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation at Restoried Bookshop for an inspiring evening of reading and discussion! This session, we’ll be reading and discussing the chapter on imperialism and war (Chapter 10). Join us to learn, grow, and build community together.
If you don’t already have a copy of the book, swing by Restoried Bookshop beforehand to pick up a copy.

Art Night Chicago - Writer's Showcase
2025-04-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Clear your calendars for Friday April 4th!!
Art Night is back with a SPECIAL EDITION highlighting some of the most talented writers in Chicago!!
Join Art Night at Restoried Bookshop right by the Kedzie Brown Line (Doors at 7:30, Show at 8:00) for stories, poetry, a small workshop, a facilitated discussion, and even some music!

Socialist Reconstruction Public Study
2025-03-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join the Party for Socialism and Liberation at Restoried Bookshop for an inspiring evening of reading and discussion! We’ll dive into the state of education under capitalism and explore how Socialist Reconstruction envisions addressing the deep-rooted issues of a profit-driven system.
No prior reading is required. Whether you’re new to the conversation or an avid reader, all are welcome to learn, grow, and connect with the Albany Park community. Copies of the book Socialist Reconstruction will be available for purchase at the event.
Let’s reimagine the future of education together. See you there!
