Reviews of Barnes & Noble (Contractor)

Vanni

Really Nice Selection :) Cozy Too!

Mrs. Al-Khuzai

Love B&N .. you can find a lot of different books, text bioks from depaul and john marshall universities, many students, and Starbucks is great to have coffee, study or read a good book all while visiting B&N

Rita Stewart

One of my favorite go to places to get some computer work done. I love the vibe of books and coffee. Yay!

Marjorie Simpson

Good place to read and relax

Ricky Pruitt

I order two books I couldn't find last week and Barnes & Noble came through. It's not the first time I order books from them. Always seems to be fair price. No extra charge, shipping or handleing. The clark/staff is always friendly and willing to help out. You can always go in and have coffee and read a magzine, newspaper or a book. They make you feel welcome.

Sharen Watson

Really good lunch spot

Tish Morris

Nice downtown location. Found what I needed and a few surprises.

Pat Schumacher

Small bookstore on DePaul Loop Campus, nice sandwich and coffee shop, two levels, lower level is great for browsing and gift shop

David Tubbs Jr

Excellent service

EnVision Lonta

Very chill environment with a peaceful staff.

Kathleen Weiss

This Barnes and Noble always seems a bit understaffed but I do appreciate that they'll gift wrap everything you buy. It's also convenient that the store is downtown and part of a larger shopping district. If you enjoy the Barnes and Noble here, be sure to check out the Harold Washington library a few blocks away. It's massive and the top floor has a lovely indoor garden where you can read and check out CPL's special collections and programming.

Amy Xie

Nice place. A bit crowded sometimes.

Sergio Rosales

Very good place for reading and buying books. Highly recommended.

Claytonvolley

It's Barnes and Noble!

Madeline Morales

I love the selection of books and materials and the fact that it's at the same location of school and starbucks.

Nick de Jong

Very helpful client service.

Shawn Lai

Good selection of books, friendly staff, and easy to find. This B&N also doubles as the official bookstore for DePaul students and they also provide books for John Marshall Law School students since JMLS closed their bookstore. Overall it is your standard B&R, appearing to have smaller footprint, but they have a basement so that might makeup for the overall smaller footprint.

Giggy Wagner

The bookstore is ok, the cafe is a good place to read a bit. The customer service at the cafe at 9am on Friday, July 5th was beyond bad. The ladies behind the counter were inconvenienced by my purchase, they gave me something I didn’t order and then got short with me when I asked them to fix it. Hopefully this was an off day.

Ugochukwu Ahiakwo

Pretty cool place. I'm just really disappointed in their fashion section. It's quite small and scarce.

Laura Sacchetti

Great place for books lovers!

Tyrone Jones

I spent plenty of time there and it has help me turn my life around

Antonia Laird

organized very clean and nice place to sit and eat watch your videos or get on the laptop great time killer

Kate Rogers Serenity Spa

Being in Chicago and not wanting to drive anywhere, this was within walking distance from our hotel. Really enjoyed the outside of the building and the detail. Staff was friendly and helpful and customers looked like they were super comfy being there.

Rolando Rodas

The pereft place for who love read!

Al Chiquito

Always a positive experience with lots of room to sit and have coffee. I usually sit for a little while, read and download a book or two and it has a great atmosphere + good service!

Theo Naddox

The location was great. Staffs were kind and friendly. Great selection and there were various categories.

Amanda Reilly

Love B&N, always has great options and diverse books at good prices. I always dig through the bargain books shelves and find something I like!

S. Bustoz

I love books so a trip to bookstore is always a pleasure. This store is located in one of the De Paul University buildings. It's not a school bookstore but does serve the student population.

Richard Penn

Good displays and very helpful staff

Valerie Santiago

Great sale

Victoria Sweeney

Awesome Barnes and noble but not enough variety and choice in Christian books

Michael Colombatto

Great place to casually browse for books, magazines, and unique board games. Coffee shop in the store. Large children's section. College textbooks on the basement.

Emily Stiehl

Book stores are becoming harder to find, even big ones like Barnes & Noble. So, it's nice that it's still available.

Denise Marshall

Love the book store. I find exactly what I am looking for I get discounts which are great with new books. I only paid 21.35 for the Michelle Obama book.

Rohit Sharma

Way better collection than any other Barnes and nobles Ive visited

Gregory Lucero

A good Barnes and noble attached to Layola. However, they want you to purchase something if you're planning on camping out.

tasheba davis

Very clean, spacious and welcoming

Sumedha Goel

I love this place! It’s such a great place to hangout/study/browse. And it’s massive!!! Don’t miss it if you’re walking down State Street. They have a huge collection and lots of older books too that might be out of stock elsewhere. Cafe is great, and there are so many trinket/stationery options as well!

Nia Watts

Great variety and children's section. Starbucks inside, nice seating outdoors. Finding parking was difficult but we managed. Found item we were looking for with ease and some!

sa brightside

Amazing bookstore!! Could spend hours and hours there!

Jennifer Craft

My favorite quiet place...all employees are helpful and friendly

Alex Ratão

Perfect! But missing a bathroom inside.

William Love

It was good and i would visit again

Erica Jones

The prices are high, and it can be noisy, so if you're looking for a quiet place to read or study, this is not it. However, there is free Wi-Fi for customers, a nice selection of books to purchase, and the baked goods are delicious.

Isaac Little

Great place to browse and BUY books. Check out the coffee bar while you're there.

Angelique Wright

Great coffee and tons of books.

Rebecca Stornes

A relaxing place to read & study or to just reflect & have quiet time with some coffee or tea. What a nice book store/cafe

Levon Peter Muhammad Salah Setyowan Poe

Very convenient. Staff helpful. Books and music available

Alex Rodriguez

Good book choices, right in the heart of DePaul

Rosemary Katona

Just stopped in for a quick snack & coffee at the Starbucks which is located in the book store. Seems like a nice place to browse & come in, out of the cold.

Mike Nelson

I was happy with the PC magazine selection, not a lot of sitting spaces but bought a drink and decided to buy.

Camilo Duque

Great place, a lot of variety and great choices, plus there is a Starbucks so you can sit down and enjoy a coffee with a good book

Sahian Del Valle

The staff are friendly and very clean environment. I always have a great time.

Benszia Smith

One of the last large bookstores that has large imediate inventory. Includes some games. Will order books for you. Downtown Chicago store near restaurants & near public transportation.

Nyla Indigo

Beautiful bookstore with outdoor seating areas l.

Betty Griffin

Nice, clean, comfortable environment. Love the fact they have up stair and down stairs where you can get comfortable and read

David Andersen

Well stocked, but some of the booksellers, I think they might be students, are rude. Memento Mori, B&N. I can easily shop elsewhere.

zineb ksd

Always best place to come to read, focus, and study

Izabella Rudolf

This is a charming place

Colin Manuele

Great store lots of books and friendly people all locations are clean and tidy I enjoy going there for people watching and buying what i need.

Jose Cornelio

If you can't find a book for someplace else you will find it here

VishnuPriya Kokkula

Ive been dreaming to go to this place ever since I've read the Harry Potter series. Mainly coz it has a lot of interesting HP merchandise

Kerri Gates

Beautiful architecture and so much selection

Lee Yuna

Nice place to take a break. Staffs are always friendly, everything was well organized as usual.

M Burks

I head to this place every now and then after work and browse through the latest books. If you really want to enhance your reader experience, use the Goodreads app camera function and scan book covers. That way you get to read reviews and see what people think about the book you want to purchase.

Da Wei

Never too crowded and always fast service at the coffee shop.

Norman Lee Morris

Thanks to its unhelpful and sour employees, this B&N joins the ranks of institutions such as the DMV, TSA, and IRS. I would rather go to a medieval dentist to remedy a toothache than patronize this place. Stay away!

Marco Bailey

Easy to find what I was looking for. Customer service was very helpful.

Sharon Simmons

Nice place like if don't see novel store will order for me

Sandra Salazar

I couldn't find the movie I wanted.

Conor O'Neill

Great to see good book stores thriving.

Mike Passaretti

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States and a retailer of content, digital media and educational products. As of January 27, 2018, the company operates 630 retail stores in 50 U.S. states. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores. The company's headquarters are at 122 Fifth Avenue in New York City. After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble stands alone as the United States' largest national bookstore chain.Previously, Barnes & Noble operated the chain of small B. Dalton Bookseller stores in malls until they announced the liquidation of the chain. The company is known for large retail outlets, many of which contain a café serving Starbucks coffee and other consumables. Most stores sell books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, gifts, games, toys, music and Nook e‑readers and tablets.

Jonathan Mason

Great place to visit cause there is a starbucks in it. If your not a DePaul student you have to get a bathroom key to use the washroom.

A Howard

Cozy store, serves the DePaul U community.

Nina Tran

I love this location! Although it's a bit crowed but generally the bookstore is quite organized, has variety of genres and great atmosphere for people who want to read, work or study~

Duncan

Wide selection and nice atmosphere. Staff was a little rude, but to be fair it was about an hour before closing time, so it may have just been a long day.

Reina Noir

Cashier and staff were very helpful

Herman Waterford

A key option to hang out if you have some hours to spare

Abdullatiff mohamd Fort

Reading is all I do is the blessed best place to do all your thinking to relax and have a cup of coffee a bagel or 2

HighTide Kraken

Favorite book store

Natalia Hess

It's a shame that Barnes & Noble is less of a book store every day... Only half of it contains books now; the other half has all sorts of unrelated merchandise.

Bobbie Farris

I love the one in woodland they have my books 95 percent of the time. They even have kids toys.

Ann Barba

Love this store worker are so helpful

Saffet Aşıksoy

Very nice book store

Amadeo

Great selection of books. Cafe to buy something to eat or drink. Lots of other book related nick-nacks. They have Lego sets.

Kayla C

Bookstore is standard B&N, the Cafe's customer service has been consistently horrible, so rude and slow- and messing the order up half the time.

Latoyakey Sanders

It's a good place to go. Lots of books that you might want buy. Buy different kinds of shirts and hats. And looking for models to build with your hands. Different book marker to put in your book to hold your place until you go back to your book to read again.

Sky Mcghee

Best place for buying books

Anita Wells

My favorite bookstore!!

Vanity Love

Environment is very easy and quiet no one bothers you and staff is very helpful

JoAnn Smith

Great selection....great helpful staff.

Konstantin Oboladze

Cradle of knowledge...

Jaime V

Great selection of books. Too many homeless...

Zan Wei

It is a place for book lovers. Always always nice staff(It is hard to maintain) . Food are like normal Starbucks.

Zineb Nassrou

I love the variety of the books and the excellent service provided by the people there

Joseph Mak

Love this place

Margie Garcia

This is one of the larger barnes and noble that I have visited. Located on DePaul's loop campus, you can find textbooks and DePaul gear there. It also has regular barnes and noble merchandise. Fyi if you are a member take your card as they cannot look up your membership number like at the other stores. I had to learn the hard way.

Shu-Pera F

It was well stocked and the staff were knowledgeable and friendly.

zane tan

Good atmosphere, does not accept all discount and offers as the real store.

Rockstar TK

I ordered textbooks online here before, but often times they don't actually have used book. In such cases, they will charge you for the price of a new book and give you one, so it is possible that they show or advertise an item they don't actually have (they even kind of admit it on the website when you select the order as they don't guarantee that they have it). Moreover, they claim to price match Amazon, but Amazon is always cheaper in reality as the books at this store are often overpriced. Fortunately, there is a coffee shop in the store. You can also wait for lyft or uber rides here too. When the weather is not good or extreme outside, this place is comfortable.

Richard Poplett

Latte was good.

Eduardo Salgado

Great book store. The staff was really helpful and friendly. They even gave me options on how to go about what I'm studying. Love it.

Earl Loder

A good selection of new books, but don't ask questions because they won't have time for you.

Jayne Tidbury-Beer

Good variety a available.

Mary Anna

If I go there I forget time. It's like walking in the garden of some magical things. Huge collection of best books, you can touch, read and take home ( for money of course). Prices are affordable for everyone!❤

Sharon Jaffess

Don't you miss browsing in bookstores? One of the last remaining places. Good selection!

D L Anthony

Good balancing act between two clienteles: students and the general public

anna marquez

Rude customer service clerk always on phone

Shay Ankri

There was some new gaming books i never saw before!

Michele Kimbrough

Small store. High foot traffic due to college students and people who work in the building. Not very clean. Store layout is confusing.

Frank L. Van De Vanter

Last remaining big bookstore chain in Chicagoland

Karen Wang

Nice store, wide variety of selections including textbook for depaul students and other books on the ground level. They have a coffee shop inside which is nice. Working and study there is nice but 1 star deduction for how busy it gets sometimes.

Robert Rudick

Excellent Customer Service and.many sales. Staff is the Best always there to serve you. Thank you for your service.

Karalee Manning

They didn't have the books I was looking for, but they told me how to get them online. Very polite and clurteous!

Nicole Franceschini

Best late evening book shopping in Chicago

Eyvette Powell

I love urban novels..Their selection isn't huge but it's worth it I got this book for $7

Sebastian V

Huge bookstore! You'll find anything you want, almost guaranteed

Ignatz Kowalski

Wonderful place to stop and have a hot cocoa and escape the hustlers movers and shakers .... Browsing the shelves of books and magazines takes the edge off Of the fast paced movement out side.... A wonderfully hospitable staff makes for a nice Mid day snack at the windowside counter...a gem of a spot.

Michael Zeman

Great place for books, very helpful staff.

Mariam A.

Great place to hang out, a decently priced cafe inside the bookshop to lounge at with WiFi. The bargain shelf has plenty of variety of good books for all ages. Staff are friendly and helpful. Open till late at night 9-10pm.

Charles Clifford

Great selection good location

kevin D Gilbert Jr

Great place to buy books.

bobby medina

PLEATY OF BOOKS

Emmanuel Leonard

There are two floor in here. It's busy on the main floor and there's a lot of foot traffic with people entering and exiting. The bottom floor is quiet and mostly empty. I found a book to purchase down there. The main floor was too busy for me to focus on choosing a book. There's also a Starbucks on the main floor.

Rachael Wilson

An impressive cookbook section. Gluten free, vegan, paleo... etc.

Colin E

Staff was helpful in finding the books I needed

Yazan Al-Khuzai

Loved this branch of Barnes and Noble. Very organized, large selection of books, a lot of people, it really made you want to pick up a book and start reading instantly. Totally recommend this branch

Alisa Ortiz

When you love books, and always the latest and nice gift selections

Mike D

Great selection of both books and gifts. Good cafe with plenty of good seating.

Kasia Kois

I forgot how fun bookstores were. This one had so many fun books!! I wish they had more chairs to longer around in.

Jazmine Cruz

Very helpful staff

Brian Thomas

I always enjoy a good book store that's well-stocked just kind of hard to get help when you need it

Willie Riley

Never went inside. May have been sitting in traffic in front of the location.

Gilson Coura

Fantastic place to spend time!!

Brice Laughrey

It's a giant book store and cafe. Not sure what else there is to say about it. Plus, it's next to a movie theater and across the street from great pizza.

Temuulen Erdenekhuu

Good environment, plenty of spaces to sit down and do work at the coffee shop. 2 floors of merchandise and books, lots of depaul related merchandise available.

Kelli Dudley

Chain bookstore.

Yuri C. Sancesario Reytor

Well it's really good but they need more books in Spanish, well what i can said my language it's just beautiful...!

RJ Woolfolk

Excellent location for reading gifts and onsite coffee shop..

Deep DiverB

You love books? Go there!

Guy Swanson

Great selection and helpful staff! I needed a book they didn't have and they helped me find it and order it for me. Great store in a landmark building.

sonny crocket

Very calm nice place to relax and unwind

Kennda Burt

More so a school based B&N but large enough and pretty good selection. My go to, due to accessibility in the Loop.

Eric Brown

Good...could use better personality at cashier.

Anthony Camera

Slow service on every visit. Staff typically have poor attitude, especially in downstairs textbook area.

Christian Braun

Nice selection of computer books.

Lee davis

Sooo many books, great place

Rafel Campoamor

For sure B&N is a good library. Unfortunately they can't propose to me the 3 books I was working for my German lessons. I refuse to advertise Ama___n but they have it

ALEJANDRO RAMÍREZ DELGADO

A quite relaxing bookstore, you can find pretty much everything. It would be awesome it there where more couches

Agustín Ariztía

Lots of books! Great place

Megan Etlinger

Love this bookstore, a great space downtown to decompress

Denise Foster

I love this bookstore. The staff is super knowledgable and very helpful.

Cindy Gubricky

Typical barnes and noble. Enjoyed my time there.

Ra Jaja

It's a great store but the prices are way to high amazon is a better option

mark key

My 3rd favorite barnes and nobles.

Grant Walker

Great staff and clean but homeless treat it like a library and spend the day there.

Gabby Bonilla

A big store with a lot of options