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
The store will be completely closed January 1-6, 2026. We will have normal business hours through December 31 and these hours will resume January 7.
206-325-3160 info@madisonbks.com Instagram
Come find a book and stay cozy during Seattle’s dark winter months.
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. 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.
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: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
May: Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
June: I’m Off Then, Hape Kerkeling
July: The Door, Magda Szabo
August: Patriot, Alexei Navalny
September: Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
October: We Do Not Part, Han Kang
November: If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
December: A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
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.