Fiction
Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
Read in one sitting. Best between 11pm and 2am, by lamplight.
$26.00
Bookshop · café · open until 1am, every night
Where the readers go after midnight.
A bookshop and café that stays open when nothing else does. Espresso until 12. Bourbon and books until 1. Friday poetry readings, Sunday silent reading nights.
Open until 1am
Currently on the front table
What we're reading at midnight
Books our staff have been carrying around the shop, refusing to put down.
Fiction
Severance — Ling Ma
Pre-pandemic apocalypse. Hits different at midnight.
$27.00
Poetry
Devotions — Mary Oliver
Open it anywhere. Read aloud. Quiet.
$32.00
Memoir
The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson
Theory and motherhood and love. The kind of book you underline.
$26.00
Café · until 12am
Espresso
House blend, single shot. Ristretto on request.
$4.00
Café · until 12am
Hot Chocolate (75% dark)
Real chocolate, melted into steamed milk. Comes with a small spoon.
$6.50
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Why late?
Because the city already had enough day-time bookshops.
Midnight Books opened in 2019 to fill a gap: there was nowhere to sit with a book at 11pm that wasn't a chain café. We pull espresso until midnight, pour bourbon after, and never rush you out. Stay until close.
- 1amClosing time
- 365Days open
- 47Friday poetry nights
Find us
We're the lit window on the corner.
88 Nightowl Lane, Lower Quarter
Sun–Thu · 5pm–1am Fri–Sat · 5pm–2am Mon · closed
+1 (555) 088-2019 · tonight@midnightbooks.cafe · @midnight.books