Welcome to Madison Books, the neighborhood bookstore for Madison Park and its surrounding communities.
4118 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98112
Hours of Operation: Every day, 10am-6pm
We will be closed on Christmas Day, December 25.
206-325-3160 info@madisonbks.com Instagram
Come celebrate the holidays and do some shopping with us!
We have our annual staff “favorite reads of 2025” in the window! Jeff’s favorites include Russel’s the antidote and Shepherd-Robinson’s The Art of a Lie. Amanda’s favorites include watts’ elegy southwest and akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
Amy’s favorites include Ioffe’s motherland and newitz’s automatic noodle. meghan’s include Wynn-Williams’ careless people and greig’s the book of i. Christina’s include Desai’s The loneliness of sonia and sunny and alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). And lastly, Sarah’s favorites include Noisecat’s we survived the night and nosrat’s good things.
The Mad Book Club
We meet the last Thursday of every month at 6:30pm at Parlour Wines (although holidays do tend to cause slight date changes, so please double check exact dates below). All readers are welcome and you don't need to sign up in advance. We try to have multiple copies of the book club’s monthly pick available in the store beforehand.
For the second half of 2025, we will be doing a literary wander through the U.S. Southeast. Our books and meeting times are below:
July 31: Sing, Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward
August 27: Gator Country, Rebecca Renner (changed from August 28 to accommodate a concert in the park.)
September 25: Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Beals
October 30: Memphis, Tara M. Stringfellow
November 20: Kindred, Octavia Butler
December 17: The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris
Upcoming Events
Please check back here in January for details about our 2026 events and thank you to everyone who came to our author readings at Parlour Wines this Fall!
Phinney Books
Don’t forget to visit our sibling store: Tom Nissley’s Phinney Books. Pay a call in person at 7405 Greenwood Ave. N or find their presence online at phinneybooks.com.