Leopold's Books Bar Caffè

Leopold's Books Bar Caffè opened July 6th, 2021 in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

Our book selection is thoughtfully curated and arranged by country so readers can browse the fiction, history, travel, and cookbooks for a specific place all on one shelf. Ideal for armchair travelers and jetsetters alike.

Our drinks are internationally inspired, from Italian coffee drinks made on an imported Elektra espresso machine to an eclectic classic cocktail menu and wines from around the world.

Open morning until midnight 7 days a week, escape to Leopold's anytime.

Celebrating Pride Month VIEW LIST (38 BOOKS)

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Under the Udala Trees

All in: An Autobiography

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Queer London

We Will Always Be Here: A Guide to Exploring and Understanding the History of LGBTQ+ Activism in Wisconsin

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

The Song of Achilles

Coming Out, Moving Forward: Wisconsin's Recent Gay History

We've Been Here All Along: Wisconsin's Early Gay History

The Picture of Dorian Gray

VIEW ALL 38 BOOKS

"Spirited" Reads VIEW LIST (41 BOOKS)

A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and Ceos

Wine: A Graphic History

The United States of Cocktails: Recipes, Tales, and Traditions from All 50 States (and the District of Columbia)

Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist

Tea Cocktails: Unique and Delicious Tea-Infused Cocktails

Prosecco Cocktails: Classic & Contemporary Cocktails

The Milk of Lions: A History of Alcohol in the Middle East

Champagne, Uncorked: The House of Krug and the Timeless Allure of the World's Most Celebrated Drink

Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement

Booze Cruise: A Tour of the World's Essential Mixed Drinks

Booze & Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music and Mixed Drinks

The Beer Bible: Second Edition

Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out

The Alchemist Cocktail Book: Master the Dark Arts of Mixology

Amaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas

VIEW ALL 41 BOOKS

Deluxe Cookbooks VIEW LIST (46 BOOKS)

Australian Food

Pride & Pudding: The History of British Puddings, Savoury and Sweet

The Irish Cookbook

The River Cottage Meat Book

The Nordic Cookbook

Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe's Grand Mountaintops [A Cookbook]

Scandinavian Comfort Food: Embracing the Art of Hygge

Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking [A Cookbook]

The Turkish Cookbook

Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore [A Cookbook]

Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking

Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City: A Cookbook

Recipes from an Italian Butcher: Roasting, Stewing, Braising

My Lisbon: A Cookbook from Portugal's City of Light

Modern Greek Cooking: 100 Recipes for Meze, Entrées, and Desserts

VIEW ALL 46 BOOKS

Children's Classics VIEW LIST (19 BOOKS)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.: Special Edition

The Trumpet of the Swan

The Secret Garden: The 100th Anniversary Edition with Tasha Tudor Art

A Little Princess

A Bear Called Paddington

The Wind in the Willows: The Centennial Anniversary Edition

Peter Rabbit and Friends

Little House on the Prairie

Selected Tales from Beatrix Potter

The Sword in the Stone

The Giving Tree

The Lorax

Madeline

The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables

VIEW ALL 19 BOOKS

Gifts for Dad VIEW LIST (37 BOOKS)

His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

Smiley's People: A George Smiley Novel

The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome

The Code of the Woosters

The End of the Affair

Red Cavalry

The Myth of Sisyphus

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Shantaram

The Ghost Writer

American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1)

VIEW ALL 37 BOOKS

Coffee Table Swag VIEW LIST (28 BOOKS)

Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures

Colorado: A Historical Atlas

The Drink That Made Wisconsin Famous: Beer and Brewing in the Badger State

Life in a Northern Town: Cooking, Eating, and Other Adventures Along Lake Superior

Wisconsin Supper Clubs: An Old-Fashioned Experience

Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs

Louis Sullivan: Creating a New American Architecture

Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent

Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants

Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House

Bill Cunningham: On the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography

Lost Chicago

Wisconsin's Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes

Historic Photos of Milwaukee

Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision

VIEW ALL 28 BOOKS

Translated Favorites VIEW LIST (23 BOOKS)

Umami: 'Guaranteed to Challenge and Move You' - Vogue

The Prague Cemetery

The Savage Detectives

The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel

The Seagull

Memoirs of Hadrian

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Norwegian Wood

The Disaster Tourist

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories

The Second Sex

Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Tram 83

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

The Memory Police

VIEW ALL 23 BOOKS

Local Wisconsin Flavor VIEW LIST (46 BOOKS)

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

A Small Earnest Question: Volume 4

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology (Loa #238)

Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee's Past

Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip Through a Midwestern Landscape

Driftless

Filthy Animals

Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House: How an Omission Transformed the Architect's Legacy

Godspeed

Haunted Wisconsin: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Badger State

Historic Photos of Madison

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition

Janesville: An American Story

Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War

Milwaukee: A City Built on Water

VIEW ALL 46 BOOKS

Black History Month VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)

All about Love: New Visions

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

The Awkward Black Man

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse

Libertie

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Beloved

African Artists: From 1882 to Now

The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985

How to Be an Antiracist

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

The Prophets

The Souls of Black Folk: A Library of America Paperback Classic

Go Tell It on the Mountain

VIEW ALL 25 BOOKS

Chicago VIEW LIST (18 BOOKS)

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Becoming

Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

Chicago Blues: The City and the Music

Clark and Division

Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks

Humboldt's Gift

Lonely Planet Pocket Chicago 4

Sister Carrie

The Adventures of Augie March: Introduction by Martin Amis

The Best of Royko: The Tribune Years

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Trade Book

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

The Great Believers

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