The Front Table Subscription Service
The Front Table Subscription Service
Since 1961, curious readers of all types have gathered around the Seminary Co-op’s Front Table, joined in the act of discovery. Heads down and shuffling slowly left or right, these browsers have found on the table an unmatched selection of academic texts and serious non-fiction, pathbreaking scholarship and incisive criticism, all works that surprise and delight their readers.
Appealing to that same spirit of curiosity, the Seminary Co-op is excited to announce our new Front Table subscription boxes. The bi-monthly service offers recent releases in literature, philosophy, history, religion, science and mathematics, arts and criticism, and the social sciences, specially selected by our buyers for the discerning general reader.
Join today and you’ll find your way into lively conversations with classic authors and contemporary thinkers. Sign up your favorite reader or treat yourself to a year’s worth of discovery—from our Front Table to your front door!
Subscription Options
We offer two tiers of subscription with two category options. Full descriptions of each category are available below, and our Subscription FAQ can be found here. With each subscription option, you’ll receive a book every other month.
The Paperback Front Table ($200) - Choose from non-fiction or literature (descriptions listed below).
The Classic Front Table ($300) - Choose from the Classic Front Table option or our History Front Table option (descriptions listed below).
If you want to support our curatorial efforts or otherwise safeguard our iconic Front Table, consider giving a financial gift today or adding a gift when you purchase a subscription.
How do I sign up?
To sign up, simply fill out this form, and then follow the corresponding link to submit payment through the secure checkout page. Your card will be charged only once, right after you submit your card information. For each subscription, you'll receive six books over the course of twelve months (auto-renew option available), with a book arriving every other month.
The Front Table Subscription
| $300.00
The History Front Table Subscription
| $300.00
A browse through the Co-op’s history stacks takes you back through the millennia and around the globe. Now take that trip without leaving your house, reading books like Alaric the Goth by Douglas Boin, The Black Civil War Soldier by Deborah Willis, and The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel. Click here to order.
The Paperback Browser Front Table Subscription
| $200.00
Hardcovers weighing you down? Our Paperback Browser Front Table option offers all the heft of the Front Table in a lighter form. No specialized knowledge required to enjoy these challenging, incisive titles in literature, philosophy, history, religion, science and mathematics, arts and criticism, and the social sciences, and from UChicago faculty. The next best thing to browsing itself. Click here to order.
The Paperback Literature Front Table Subscription
| $200.00
Flip past the bestseller list and find emerging masters and rediscovered classics, all paperback, in fiction, verse, and essay form. The Paperback Literature Front Table features titles like Can Xue’s I Live in the Slums, Claire Messud’s Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, and Machado de Assis’s Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. Click here to order.