Welcome to Madison Books, the neighborhood bookstore for Madison Park and its surrounding communities.

4118 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98112

Hours of Operation: 10am-6pm every day.

206-325-3160 info@madisonbks.com Instagram

The Mad Book Club

We meet the last Wednesday* of every month at 6:30pm at Parlour Wines. All readers are welcome! We always have multiple copies of the book club’s monthly pick available in the store beforehand.

*This is a change from our former meeting time, which was on the last Thursday of every month.

In 2026, our theme is Works in Translation.

Our books and meeting times are below:

January 29: The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

February 26: Cross-Stitch, Jazmina Barrera

March 26: Three Strong Women, Marie Ndiaye

April 30: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk

May 28: Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

June 25: I’m Off Then, Hape Kerkeling

July 29: The Door, Magda Szabo

August 26: Patriot, Alexei Navalny

September 30: Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico

October 28: We Do Not Part, Han Kang

November 25: If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

December 30: A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami