Chicago

Books about people, settings, or topics from or featuring Chicago.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The House on Mango Street
The Jungle
The Great Believers
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
The Time Traveler's Wife
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Native Son
Dark Matter
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Becoming
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Room Fifteen by Elyse KellyRoom Twenty Three by Alexa JordanRoom Nine by Kameron ClaireRoom Twenty-One by Mika LaneRoom Seventeen by Penelope Wylde
Club Sin: Chicago Session 2
10 books — 3 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMan Alone by Jack RemickGhost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
City Life
323 books — 205 voters

Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. HirschBlueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford HuntAmerican Project by VenkateshOff the Books by Sudhir VenkateshGang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Chicago Housing (nonfiction)
17 books — 1 voter

Rebecca Makkai
Boys with hands in pockets, waiting for everything to begin
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Audrey Niffenegger
Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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