Dorothy's Silent Book Club!

SILENT BOOK CLUB breaks the barriers of a traditional book club where there's no pressure to finish a certain book, no pressure to socialize and no pressure to do anything but read! Silent Book Club is just that: a silent gathering of readers in Dorothy once a month with an option to follow our highlighted reads and an option to chat with our book club curator - or to keep on reading!

During a Silent Book Club Sundays, Dorothy will be playing instrumental music at a slightly lower volume than normal and will keep the lights at a key higher than usual. Due to the dark nature of our bar we encourage anyone to bring reading lights! Silent Book Club lasts all night: 6-11pm.

Dorothy is 21+ and requires physical or mobile ID for all to enter. Dorothy is also ADA accessible with elevator access on Campbell Ave. If you are a guest who requires elevator access, please wait by the black door with our logo in the window and call our staff to assist: 773-770-3799

For April - June 2026, our host and curator Charlie has curated book suggestions which you're welcome to explore, bring to the bar or completely ignore and read whatever you want. :)

APRIL

• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker
• Hardly Creatures by Rob Macaisa Colgate

MAY

• Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
• You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

JUNE

• Chicago After Stonewall: A History of LGBTQ Chicago From Gay Lib to Gay Life by St. Sukie de la Croix
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault
• Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World. by Ashley Herring Blake

Alongside our event we will have pop up guests with us, including:

APRIL: Artistic Alphabet Mafia with a flirty book swap!

MAY: Chicago Public Library - bringing books, registering library cards and changing personal information on CPL accounts

JUNE : TBA

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ABOUT OUR HOST AND CURATOR

Charlie is a writer, bookseller, and pop culture enthusiast who lives in Logan Square with their (cool as fuck) spouse, Beth and (demonic) cat, JJ Peppers Convenience Store. A Chicago native, Charlie knows there’s no place like (or better than) home. When they’re not in the photo booth at Dorothy or FaceTiming their friends to talk about fanfiction, they like to go out for Italian ice, visit the garlic couple at the farmers market, and howl at the moon.

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