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Chicago Books
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 726 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 753,727 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.68 — 231,112 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,086 ratings — published 1906
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,351,162 ratings — published 2011
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.29 — 169,020 ratings — published 2018
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 168 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,853,742 ratings — published 2003
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,182 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,377 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 706,751 ratings — published 2016
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 376,493 ratings — published 2000
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,186,526 ratings — published 2018
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 123 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,062 ratings — published 1991
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,075 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 — 1,722 ratings — published 1996
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,108 ratings — published 2016
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,135 ratings — published 1951
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,566 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 — 3,383 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.38 — 3,428 ratings — published 2018
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,434 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,136,574 ratings — published 2013
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,696 ratings — published 1900
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 530,457 ratings — published 2023
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,615,830 ratings — published 2012
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.98 — 210,026 ratings — published 2001
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,957 ratings — published 2019
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,697 ratings — published 1990
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,960 ratings — published 2022
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,869 ratings — published 1953
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 109,898 ratings — published 1959
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,126 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,009 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 411,648 ratings — published 2010
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 177,617 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 — 25,417 ratings — published 2008
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,204 ratings — published 2021
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 160,839 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 63 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 82,557 ratings — published 2017
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 128,543 ratings — published 2006
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 698 ratings — published 1966
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,102 ratings — published 2013
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,976 ratings — published 2010
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 111,566 ratings — published 2009
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 116,658 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 — 928 ratings — published 2000
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,265 ratings — published 1949
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,413 ratings — published 1982
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 133,867 ratings — published 2005
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.80 — 438 ratings — published 2009
“Sunbeams were coming down from the bottom of the cloudcover, pointing to different areas of Chicago.
And I wanted to break off a sunbeam right where it met with the clouds and use it as a sword to protect the city.
Anyone coming in comes through me.
Anyone leaving leaves through me.
Anyone not wanted, denied.
Everyone else inside safe-but always in view of my sunbeam sword as I hold it, arms crossed and expressionless.”
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And I wanted to break off a sunbeam right where it met with the clouds and use it as a sword to protect the city.
Anyone coming in comes through me.
Anyone leaving leaves through me.
Anyone not wanted, denied.
Everyone else inside safe-but always in view of my sunbeam sword as I hold it, arms crossed and expressionless.”
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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.”
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