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Chicago

  • January 27, 2025
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#56

Wasp.

Wasp.
ByEric Frank Russell

1958 • 1 Reader

#1

The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
ByThomas Dyja

2012 • 8 Readers • 544 pages • 3.5

#1

Young Lonigan

#1 of 1 in Studs Lonigan

Young Lonigan
ByJames T. Farrell

1932 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 3

#1

Forgotten Sisters

Forgotten Sisters
ByCynthia Pelayo

2024 • 11 Readers

#1

The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City
ByErik Larson

2002 • 968 Readers • 447 pages • 4

#1

Balm

Balm
ByDolen Perkins-Valdez

2015 • 9 Readers • 269 pages • 3.5

#1

Sin in the Second City

Sin in the Second City
ByKaren Abbott

2007 • 34 Readers • 356 pages • 3.6

#1

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
ByGwendolyn Brooks

1963 • 15 Readers • 161 pages • 4

#1

Three Girls from Bronzeville

Three Girls from Bronzeville
ByDawn Turner

2021 • 12 Readers • 336 pages • 5

#1

Chicago

Chicago
ByAlaa Al Aswany

2007 • 2 Readers • 14 pages

#1

The Plan of Chicago

The Plan of Chicago
ByCarl Smith

2006 • 2 Readers • 3

#1

The Adventures of Augie March

The Adventures of Augie March
BySaul Bellow

1953 • 79 Readers • 386 pages • 3.9

#1

Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records

Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
ByNadine Cohodas

2000 • 390 pages

#1

Treasure Island!!!

Treasure Island!!!
BySara Levine

2011 • 27 Readers • 172 pages • 3.6

#1

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City of Scoundrels
ByGary Krist

2012 • 7 Readers • 347 pages

#1

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Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner
ByJen Lancaster

2012 • 8 Readers • 352 pages • 4.7

#1

Twenty years at Hull-House

Twenty years at Hull-House
ByJane Addams

6 Readers

#1

Divergent

#1 of 3 in Divergent

Divergent
ByVeronica Roth

2011 • 1,947 Readers • 487 pages • 3.7

#1

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife
ByAudrey Niffenegger

2003 • 1,196 Readers • 522 pages • 3.9

#1

The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street
BySandra Cisneros

1984 • 350 Readers • 110 pages • 3.7

#1

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
BySudhir Venkatesh

2008 • 62 Readers • 302 pages • 3.9

#1

The Coast of Chicago

The Coast of Chicago
ByStuart Dybek

1990 • 10 Readers • 173 pages • 4

#1

I Sailed with Magellan

I Sailed with Magellan
ByStuart Dybek

2003 • 4 Readers • 307 pages

#1

Zero Fade

Zero Fade
ByChris L. Terry

2013 • 2 Readers • 294 pages

#1

The Order of Odd-Fish

The Order of Odd-Fish
ByJames Kennedy

2008 • 14 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

#1

The Hundred-Year House

The Hundred-Year House
ByRebecca Makkai

2014 • 38 Readers • 338 pages • 3.7

#1

The South Side

The South Side
ByNatalie Y. Moore

2016 • 7 Readers • 258 pages

#1

City of the Century

City of the Century
ByDonald L. Miller

1996 • 7 Readers • 704 pages • 5

#1

Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust

Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust
ByTerrence Hake

2015 • 279 pages

#1

Empire of Deception

Empire of Deception
ByDean Jobb

2015 • 11 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

#1

Every Anxious Wave

Every Anxious Wave
ByMo Daviau

2016 • 17 Readers • 276 pages • 3.4

#1

Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
ByMary Pattillo,Mary Pattillo-McCoy

1999 • 1 Reader • 283 pages

#1

Dark Matter

Dark Matter
ByBlake Crouch

2016 • 2,404 Readers • 340 pages • 4

#1

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
ByEric Klinenberg

2002 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 5

#1

The Acme Novelty Library #13

#13 of 19 in The Acme Novelty Library

The Acme Novelty Library #13
ByChris Ware

1999 • 91 Readers • 84 pages • 3.9

#1

Passing

Passing
ByNella Larsen

1929 • 253 Readers • 160 pages • 3.9

#1

The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire

The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire
ByAnn Durkin Keating

2019 • 272 pages

#1

Peel My Love Like an Onion

Peel My Love Like an Onion
ByAna Castillo

4 Readers • 4

#1

What You Don't See

#3 of 4 in Cass Raines

What You Don't See
ByTracy Clark

2020 • 2 Readers

#1

How to Fail at Flirting

How to Fail at Flirting
ByDenise Williams

2020 • 96 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

#1

The Man Who Lived Underground

The Man Who Lived Underground
ByRichard Wright

18 Readers • 4.4

#1

The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues Of Community In America

The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues Of Community In America
ByAlan Ehrenhalt

1995 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#1

The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries
ByCarol Shields

1993 • 71 Readers • 404 pages • 3.7

#1

Matasha

Matasha
ByPamela Erens

2021 • 294 pages

#1

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Chicago Poems
ByCarl Sandburg

1916 • 5 Readers • 88 pages • 5

#1

Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry

Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
ByDonald G Evans(editor)

2022 • 1 Reader • 310 pages

#1

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
ByCarl Smith

1995 • 432 pages

#1

The Book of Ralph

The Book of Ralph
ByJohn McNally

2004 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#1

Her Fearful Symmetry

Her Fearful Symmetry
ByAudrey Niffenegger

2009 • 120 Readers • 404 pages • 3.3

#1

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
ByWes Moore

2010 • 42 Readers • 3.5

#1

On the Road

Duluoz Legend

On the Road
ByJack Kerouac

1955 • 828 Readers • 254 pages • 3.3

#1

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
ByIsabel Wilkerson

2010 • 431 Readers • 642 pages • 4.5

#1

Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie
ByTheodore Dreiser

63 Readers • 3.6

#1

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The Complete Poems
ByCarl Sandburg

1950 • 2 Readers

#1

Loving Frank

Loving Frank
ByNancy Horan

51 Readers • 3.5