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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 724 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 749,438 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.68 — 228,223 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 153,518 ratings — published 1906
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,331,809 ratings — published 2011
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.29 — 167,074 ratings — published 2018
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 167 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,850,731 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 — 13,169 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,043 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 693,691 ratings — published 2016
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 374,767 ratings — published 2000
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,178,443 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 — 16,016 ratings — published 1991
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,038 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 — 1,715 ratings — published 1996
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,093 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 103 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,544 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 — 3,376 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 — 3,413 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 — 1,132,324 ratings — published 2013
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,593 ratings — published 1900
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,609,895 ratings — published 2012
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.98 — 208,945 ratings — published 2001
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 521,589 ratings — published 2023
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,940 ratings — published 2019
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,685 ratings — published 1990
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,820 ratings — published 1953
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,843 ratings — published 2022
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,104 ratings — published 2018
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 109,029 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 — 115,184 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 410,984 ratings — published 2010
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 176,766 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 — 25,310 ratings — published 2008
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,131 ratings — published 2021
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 160,165 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 — 81,820 ratings — published 2017
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 128,080 ratings — published 2006
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 53,903 ratings — published 2013
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 111,109 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 — 924 ratings — published 2000
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 693 ratings — published 1966
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,361 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 — 4,965 ratings — published 2010
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 133,368 ratings — published 2005
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 116,198 ratings — published 2008
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,250 ratings — published 1949
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.81 — 436 ratings — published 2009
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.”
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“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.”
― Minor Snobs
― Minor Snobs
