Restoried Bookshop

Book Talk - Twice Removed by Zee Lacson
2025-10-12 10:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us to celebrate local author, Zee Lacson, and Filipinx American History Month at Restoried Bookshop!
We’ll be discussing her YA novel, Twice Removed- available in-store during the event. Zee will be reading from her novel, answering questions, and signing copies of the book. This event is organized in partnership with our friends at Veloria Coffee who will be joining us with a special beverage making it’s debut at this book talk!
Local author x Filipinx American History Month x Coffee x Spooky Season = An event not to be missed!
Help us plan for the event by selecting a free ticket below so we can make sure we have enough books and seats for everyone.
As part of an immigrant family, Jay has never felt like he belonged in his hometown of New Orleans. In the summer before his senior year in high school, he thinks things are finally going his way when Maya, the half-Filipino girl in class he’s had a crush on, starts talking to him.
But Maya has secrets. And the more time they spend together, the further he’s pulled into a world of magic and superstition. When a generations-old family curse is revealed, Jay has to find a way to stop this winged, vampiric monster before sunset on Maya’s 18th birthday.
If he doesn’t, his new girlfriend might kill him.
Or worse, he’ll have to kill her.
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Zee Lacson, a first generation immigrant, has lived half her life in one country and the other half in another. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines with her grandparents, father, and twin brothers, she now enjoys the small town life in Illinois with her husband and twin sons.
She has had practice in many professions. Engineer. Educator. Photographer. Artist. Storyteller.
The Woolgathering Trilogy is her first completed story. Reverie was published in 2020 and was a finalist in the 2021 Illinois Author Project. Revenant, its sequel, was released the following year. The trilogy was completed in 2023 with the final book, Réveil.
Twice Removed was published on Philippine Independence Day in 2024 and won a BIBA (Best Indie Book Award) that year.
She’s never been a big believer of monsters hiding in the dark but she eats lots of garlic and will sleep with a little light on. Just in case.
ZeeLacson.com

Second Saturdays Silent Reading Club
2025-10-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Come through and join us for our regular Second Saturdays Silent Reading Club!
Bring a friend, a book, and a beverage for an hour of uninterrupted silent reading with friends and neighbors. Hang out with us after the author event earlier in the day or swing by a little early to pick up something new to read.
We’ll provide the seating and the background music.

Let's Talk Comics! With Wendy Xu and Bianca Xunise
2025-10-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Restoried Bookshop is excited to host Wendy Xu and Bianca Xunise to talk about their work and geek out over their comics! Join us Saturday, October 11th at 12pm to meet Wendy and Bianca, hear about their work, ask some questions, and maybe even get something signed.
We will have copies of their books available for purchase at the event.

Wendy Xu is a bestselling, award-nominated Brooklyn-based illustrator and comics artist.
She is the creator of INFINITY PARTICLE (2023, HarperCollins/Quilltree), TIDESONG (2021 HarperCollins/Quilltree) and co-creator of MOONCAKES, a young adult fantasy graphic novel published in 2019 from Oni Press. Her work has been featured in various places on the internet including Catapult, Barnes & Noble Sci-fi/Fantasy, and Tor.com. She loves obsessing over the perfect line, making matcha lattes, and art history.
You can find more art on her instagram: @artofwendyxu; on twitter: @angrygirLcomics; or bluesky: @wendyxu

Bianca Xunise’s work has been regarded as ‘gripping narrative[s], relatable situations, and evocative artwork with an aesthetic that oozes with late-1970s zine flair.’ With two Ignatz and an NAACP Award under their belt, Bianca enjoys being a voice for those who march to the beat of their own drum and hopes that their comics are comforting to those who feel like they don’t fit in. Bianca continues to bring rock n roll to illustrative life, collaborating with legends from Blondie to Bauhaus. When Bianca isn’t doodling away, they are usually at an underground DIY punk show dancing with friends by the Chicago riverside.

Off-Site Event
2025-10-06 15:00 - 16:30 | IL
We’ll be popping up off-site for an event starting at 3pm. More info coming soon!

Banned Books Week 2025!
2025-10-05 - 2025-10-11 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Let’s be real. You know that most of this shop is on those lists.
We’ll be trying to put together a few special ways to celebrate, so come through- chop it up with us about your favorite banned books and maybe find something new that they don’t want you to read.
Trust us, you’ll be ok reading that book- we’re professionals.

Katabasis Kickback
2025-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
In lieu of a September Book Club and since so many folks have been excited about Katabasis dropping, we’ll be hosting an informal kickback for folks that have been reading Katabasis to check in with each other and chat.
Wherever you are in the book- just let us know so we can tailor the conversation to avoid spoilers- or break into groups depending on how far folks have gotten. Come through and kickback with us in community with your fellow book lovers!

Off Site with Read & Run Chicago!
2025-09-14 09:00 - 12:00 | IL
We don’t always do bookshop things on Sundays, but if it’s a chance to hang out with Read & Run Chicago & Mia P. Manansala- we’re in!
Check out Read & Run Chicago to book your tickets!
(No, the bookshop will not be open- we’ll be over at the Rizal Center!)

Second Saturdays Silent Reading Club
2025-09-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us here at Restoried Bookshop for some lo-fi background beats, 45 minutes of uninterrupted reading time (or an hour), your beverage of choice, and time with neighbors and community! Bring whatever you’re reading and come kick it with us. Or show up early to pick out something new- we’re always glad to help find the right book to match the vibe.

Organizing Gathering & Book Discussion: Indians on Indian Lands with Dr. Nishant Upadhyay
2025-09-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Please join us for a South Asian organizing gathering about Indigenous solidarity and anti-caste organizing featuring the book Indians on Indian Lands.
The event will kick off with some chai, appetizers, and gupshup before getting into a conversation with the book’s author Professor Nishant Upadhyay (Univerisity of Colorado Boulder) and Chicago-based Indian organizers and academics — Neomi Rao (UChicago), Mounica Sreesai (Northwestern), Mohamed Mehdi (Oakton College) and Shweta Moorthy (Rad Rogers Park). We will wrap up with a community conversation about how Chicago-based South Asian organizing can be grounded in Indigenous solidarity.
Copies of Indians on Indian Lands will be available for purchase in-shop during the event. If you’re unable to attend, you can still pick up a copy through our Bookshop.org page.
Masks are required!
Chai and snacks will be provided.

Hao Peng You Book Club - Yellowface
2025-08-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Hao Peng You Book Club is hosting their first book club meeting here at Restoried Bookshop! They’ll be reading and discussing Yellowface by R.F. Kuang- pick up a copy in the shop or via Bookshop.org. Check out their insta for more info.

Final Fridays Book Club - The Spear Cuts Through Water!
2025-08-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’ve been working our way through Simon Jimenez’s The Spear Cuts Through Water all July and August. Neighbors have been picking this one up all year- and we can’t wait to talk about Keema and Jun’s journey with the rest of the club! Join us on August 29th at 6pm for the discussion with friends and neighbors!
Snacks are welcome, and no judging if you didn’t quite finish it- but there will be spoilers. We might have found a special playlist for the discussion too. Just sayin’.
You don’t want to miss this one!

Private Event - Closed
2025-08-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’re hosting a private event and will be otherwise closed.
If you’re looking for a space to host a meeting/gathering/event in the area- reach out!

Closed for a family event
2025-08-16 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We’ll be closed Saturday, August 16th for a family tradition. We’ll be back on Tuesday with new titles and some new stories!

July - Special Session Book Club
2025-07-26 15:00 - 16:30 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
We are adding in a Special Session Book Club for July! Our past couple of book club votes have showed a strong crew of folks eager to bookclub Unassimilable by Bianca Mabute-Louie. We’ve been wanting to read it too, so we’re opening a nonfiction special session book club for anyone interested in digging into this diasporic manifesto with us! We’ll be gathering the afternoon of July 26th at 3pm at the bookshop. Feel free to bring a snack or beverage.
As always, the only prerequisite to joining this club is purchasing your copy here, in-person at the shop. Though RSVP’s help us plan, so please scoop up one of the free tickets below and don’t forget to show up for the conversation!
More about Unassimilable:
A scholar and activist’s brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American institutions.
In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca Mabute-Louie transforms the ways we understand race, class, citizenship, and the concept of assimilation and its impact on Asian American communities from the nineteenth century to present day.
UNASSIMILABLE opens with a focus on the San Gabriel Valley (SGV), the first Asian ethnoburb in Los Angeles County and in the nation, where she grew up. A suburban neighborhood with a conspicuous Asian immigrant population, SGV thrives not because of its assimilation into Whiteness, but because of its unapologetic catering to its immigrant community.
Mabute-Louie then examines “Predominantly White Institutions With A lot of Asians” and how these institutions shape the racial politics of Asian Americans and Asian internationals, including the fight against affirmative action and the fight for ethnic studies. She moves on to interrogate the role of the religion, showing how the immigrant church is a sanctuary even as it is an extension of colonialism and the American Empire. In the book’s conclusion, Bianca looks to the future, boldly proposing a reconsideration of the term Asian American for a new label that better clarifies who Asians in America are today.
UNASSIMILABLE offers a radical vision of Asian American political identity informed by a refusal of Whiteness and collective care for each other. It is a forthright declaration against assimilation and in service of cross-racial, anti-imperialist solidarity and revolutionary politics. Scholarly yet accessible, informative and informed, this book is a major addition to Ethnic Studies and American Studies.

July Final Fridays Book Club
2025-07-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us for our Final Friday’s Book Club as we dive into The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez!! This fantasy novel has been a steadily popular one with our community since we opened and if you know someone who has read it, they’ve likely also made you want to pick it up too. We can’t wait to read through and talk about this one with y’all in community. It does come in at a respectable 544 pages so I’m suggesting we do a check in for the July 25th book club and see where everyone’s at and discuss from there, then do a final deep dive at our August book club gathering once we’ve all finished. Though if you think we’ve got it and can finish the book by the 25, reach out and let me know!
As always, the only prerequisite to getting into this club is purchase your book in-person at our shop and showing up for the book club. Please RSVP by getting one of the free tickets below, this really does help us plan!

A little more about The Spear Cuts Through Water:
Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.
“A beguiling fantasy not to be missed.”—Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of The Crown’s Game
WINNER OF THE IAFA CRAWFORD AWARD • WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE IGNYTE AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Vulture, Polygon, She Reads, Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.
But that god cannot be contained forever.
With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.
Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

Socialist Reconstruction Public Study
2025-07-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States

July Second Saturdays Silent Reading Club!
2025-07-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Restoried Bookshop, 4613 North Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60625, United States
Join us Saturday, July 12th at 3pm for our Silent Reading Book Club!
Bring a beverage, a friend, and whatever you’re reading (or wanting to read). We’ll be playing some relaxing lo-fi and/or instrumentals. Read for the first 45 minutes then use the last 15 to say hi to a neighbor and share what you’re reading (or power through for the end of that chapter, we won’t judge). If you’re not sure what to read, come by early and we’ll help you pick out something great – it’s kinda what we’re good at.

Reduced Hours - July 4th
2025-07-04 12:00 - 16:00 | 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**
