The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBecoming by Michelle ObamaAn American Summer by Alex KotlowitzUgly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD
Chicago History (nonfiction)
7th out of 213 books — 14 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWithout Sanctuary by James AllenSegregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom MillerMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
10th out of 188 books — 23 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinDrift by Rachel MaddowPolitical Tribes by Amy ChuaThe Tenth Parallel by Eliza GriswoldFutureface by Alex Wagner
Why Is This Happening? Podcast Reading List
67th out of 91 books — 6 voters
High-Risers by Ben AustenHigh Rise Stories by Audrey PettyThe South Side by Natalie Y. MooreLast Project Standing by Catherine FennellBlueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford Hunt
Cabrini-Green & Public Housing in America
3rd out of 11 books — 1 voter

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
77th out of 118 books — 7 voters
Portrait of Jennie by Robert NathanThe Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesPortrait of a Witch by Dorothy DanielsPortrait of a Mobster by Harry GreyA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
"Portraits"
306th out of 315 books — 20 voters

Hattiesburg by William SturkeyKeep Your Head to the Sky by Grey GundakerEarth Democracy by Vandana ShivaThe Business of Architecture by Kathy Denise DixonBuilding Atlanta by Herman J. Russell
Black Architecture, Planning, Urban Design
24th out of 30 books — 3 voters
The History of White People by Nell Irvin PainterWho's Your Paddy? by Jennifer Nugent DuffyHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWorking Toward Whiteness by David R. RoedigerThe Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne
What Does It Mean to Be White? - Whiteness in America
123rd out of 132 books — 7 voters

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsRace for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorA World More Concrete by Nathan Daniel Beau ConnollyWhere We Want to Live by Ryan GravelSundown Towns by James W. Loewen
American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)
31st out of 70 books — 9 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSin in the Second City by Karen AbbottThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Jungle by Upton SinclairThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Chicago in history and fiction (fiction and nonfiction)
198th out of 257 books — 82 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonRace Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue
Resources for Social Justice--MMT Recommendations (Nonfiction)
24th out of 33 books — 6 voters
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
ATY 2020 - Place in the Title
353rd out of 746 books — 83 voters

White Teeth by Zadie SmithLife of Pi by Yann MartelKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieMonster by Walter Dean Myers
2016/17 People of Color Reading List
131st out of 142 books — 12 voters
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderEvicted by Matthew Desmond
Sociology Published in Decade: 2010s
90th out of 121 books — 31 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThere are No Children Here by Alex KotlowitzGang Leader for a Day by Sudhir VenkateshAmerican Project by VenkateshLiliana by Neva Squires-Rodriguez
Chicago!
28th out of 46 books — 17 voters
The Middle Ground by Richard WhiteThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganNature's Metropolis by William CrononThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonBlue Jacket by John Sugden
History of the Midwest
76th out of 113 books — 17 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonThe Promised Land by Nicholas LemannA Nation Under Our Feet by Steven HahnThe Southern Diaspora by James N. GregoryFarewell--We're Good and Gone by Carole Marks
Canaan Bound: Nonfiction Books on America's Epic Great Migration
17th out of 42 books — 3 voters
The Constitution of the United States of America by Founding FathersThe Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the Uni... by Founding FathersThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCollected Writings by Thomas Paine
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
688th out of 942 books — 1,098 voters

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiMarch by John LewisWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilShirley Jackson by Ruth FranklinBullies by Alex Abramovich
Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016
16th out of 18 books — 4 voters


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