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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 723 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 748,713 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 227,741 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,430 ratings — published 1906
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,328,274 ratings — published 2011
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.29 — 166,659 ratings — published 2018
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 167 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,850,146 ratings — published 2003
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,165 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,981 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 691,223 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,177,001 ratings — published 2018
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 374,466 ratings — published 2000
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 122 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,010 ratings — published 1991
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,034 ratings — published 1971
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,713 ratings — published 1996
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,092 ratings — published 2016
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,133 ratings — published 1951
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,538 ratings — published 1991
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,373 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,407 ratings — published 2018
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,429 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,131,598 ratings — published 2013
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,575 ratings — published 1900
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 519,765 ratings — published 2023
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,608,816 ratings — published 2012
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.98 — 208,783 ratings — published 2001
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,939 ratings — published 2019
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,684 ratings — published 1990
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,804 ratings — published 1953
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,098 ratings — published 2018
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,816 ratings — published 2022
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 108,880 ratings — published 1959
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.48 — 115,029 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,915 ratings — published 2010
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 176,625 ratings — published 2001
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,301 ratings — published 2008
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,122 ratings — published 2021
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 160,040 ratings — published 2002
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 66 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,288 ratings — published 2004
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 81,673 ratings — published 2017
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 127,998 ratings — published 2006
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 53,869 ratings — published 2013
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 111,040 ratings — published 2009
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 923 ratings — published 2000
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 692 ratings — published 1966
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,345 ratings — published 1982
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,964 ratings — published 2010
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 133,279 ratings — published 2005
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 116,139 ratings — published 2008
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,247 ratings — published 1949
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.81 — 436 ratings — published 2009
“On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.”
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“That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.”
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