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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,138 ratings — published 2003
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 24 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.03 — 172,597 ratings — published 2003
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by Karen Abbott (shelved 22 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.44 — 2,890 ratings — published 2007
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Crossing California (Paperback)
by Adam Langer (shelved 16 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,024 ratings — published 2004
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The Jungle (Paperback)
by Upton Sinclair (shelved 16 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.73 — 12,208 ratings — published 1905
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The Coast of Chicago (Paperback)
by Stuart Dybek (shelved 13 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.09 — 555 ratings — published 1990
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Then We Came to the End (Hardcover)
by Joshua Ferris (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.40 — 11,197 ratings — published 2007
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by Alex Kotlowitz (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 319 ratings — published 2004
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (paper)
by Mike Royko (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 406 ratings — published 1971
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Paperback)
by Alex Kotlowitz (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,654 ratings — published 1992
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Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated (Paperback)
by Nelson Algren (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.10 — 224 ratings — published 1951
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Native Son (Paperback)
by Richard Wright (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,587 ratings — published 1940
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The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by Sandra Cisneros (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.59 — 16,534 ratings — published 1991
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,949 ratings — published 2000
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The Lazarus Project (Hardcover)
by Aleksandar Hemon (shelved 9 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,081 ratings — published 2008
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Hairstyles of the Damned (Paperback)
by Joe Meno (shelved 9 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,953 ratings — published 2004
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by Donald L. Miller (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.95 — 183 ratings — published 1996
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by Adam Cohen (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 112 ratings — published 2001
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The Washington Story (Paperback)
by Adam Langer (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.49 — 237 ratings — published 2005
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by William Cronon (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.28 — 378 ratings — published 1991
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Gang Leader for a Day (Hardcover)
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,934 ratings — published 2008
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Division Street: America (Paperback)
by Studs Terkel (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.02 — 299 ratings — published 1967
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The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by Nelson Algren (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.06 — 636 ratings — published 1949
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The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future (Hardcover)
by Marco D'Eramo (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 1998
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Lost Chicago (Paperback)
by David Garrard Lowe (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.56 — 34 ratings — published 1993
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The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by Saul Bellow (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,294 ratings — published 1953
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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Saul Bellow (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,398 ratings — published 1975
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Hardcover)
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.56 — 514 ratings — published 2006
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by James Green (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 119 ratings — published 2006
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
by Carl Smith (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 109 ratings — published 2006
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Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by Theodore Dreiser (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,201 ratings — published 1900
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Paperback)
by Chris Ware (shelved 5 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,800 ratings — published 1999
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Chicago in Maps: 1612-2002 (Hardcover)
by Robert Holland (shelved 5 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.44 — 20 ratings — published 2005
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Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,534 ratings — published 2003
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Dreams from My Father (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,079 ratings — published 1995
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Ghosts of Chicago (Hardcover)
by John McNally (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.31 — 49 ratings — published 2008
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Ten Cents a Dance (Hardcover)
by Christine Fletcher (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.92 — 663 ratings — published 2008
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The Blade Itself (Hardcover)
by Marcus Sakey (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.46 — 292 ratings — published 2007
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Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,159 ratings — published 2001
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Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,485 ratings — published 2001
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Hardcover)
by William Julius Wilson (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.37 — 69 ratings — published 2006
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois)
by Eric Klinenberg (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.95 — 186 ratings — published 2003
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Chicago "L", The (IL) (General Series)
by Greg Borzo (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 23 ratings — published 2007
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Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City (Hardcover)
by Michael Williams (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.79 — 34 ratings — published 2006
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I Sailed with Magellan (Paperback)
by Stuart Dybek (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.14 — 345 ratings — published 2003
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Never Come Morning (Paperback)
by Nelson Algren (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 158 ratings — published 1941
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The Chicago Way (Hardcover)
by Michael Harvey (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.36 — 320 ratings — published 2007
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (Paperback)
by Steve Bogira (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 284 ratings — published 2005
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American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism (Hardcover)
by Carla Breeze (shelved 3 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.75 — 7 ratings — published 2003
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Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 3 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,185 ratings — published 2005
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""Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.""
— Warren Ellis
— Warren Ellis
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— Erik Larson
— Erik Larson
