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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 722 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,634 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 225,409 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 152,897 ratings — published 1906
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,310,114 ratings — published 2011
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 167 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,847,068 ratings — published 2003
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.29 — 164,503 ratings — published 2018
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 — 13,128 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,668 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 678,629 ratings — published 2016
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 372,774 ratings — published 2000
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,169,364 ratings — published 2018
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 — 15,974 ratings — published 1991
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,017 ratings — published 1971
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,078 ratings — published 2016
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,705 ratings — published 1996
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,131 ratings — published 1951
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,530 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 — 3,356 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 — 3,379 ratings — published 2018
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,416 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,127,619 ratings — published 2013
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.98 — 207,791 ratings — published 2001
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,474 ratings — published 1900
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,603,354 ratings — published 2012
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,672 ratings — published 1990
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.14 — 509,452 ratings — published 2023
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,917 ratings — published 2019
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,752 ratings — published 1953
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,068 ratings — published 2018
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 108,252 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 — 114,208 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,284 ratings — published 2010
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 175,830 ratings — published 2001
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,677 ratings — published 2022
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,222 ratings — published 2008
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 159,391 ratings — published 2002
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,986 ratings — published 2021
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 66 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,287 ratings — published 2004
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 63 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 127,514 ratings — published 2006
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 110,629 ratings — published 2009
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.01 — 80,727 ratings — published 2017
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 53,684 ratings — published 2013
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 132,770 ratings — published 2005
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 115,695 ratings — published 2008
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 920 ratings — published 2000
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,300 ratings — published 1982
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 689 ratings — published 1966
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,231 ratings — published 1949
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,955 ratings — published 2010
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.80 — 430 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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“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
