Chicago

Books about people, settings, or topics from or featuring Chicago.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The House on Mango Street
The Jungle
The Great Believers
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
The Time Traveler's Wife
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Native Son
Dark Matter
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Becoming
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. HirschBlueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford HuntAmerican Project by VenkateshOff the Books by Sudhir VenkateshGang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Chicago Housing (nonfiction)
17 books — 1 voter
Unique Eats and Eateries of Denver by Chad ChisholmUnique Eats and Eateries of Washington, DC by Joann HillUnique Eats & Eateries San Francisco by Kimberley LovatoUnique Eats and Eateries of Philadelphia by Irene Levy BakerUnique Eats and Eateries of Kansas City by Matt   Stewart
Popular Restaurant Guides in the USA
24 books — 2 voters

The Secret History by Donna TarttThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughStoner by John  WilliamsFranny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Campus Days
402 books — 299 voters
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John  GreenAn Abundance of Katherines by John  GreenThe Orphan Factory by James MorcanLiliana by Neva Squires-RodriguezA Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
YA Chicago-Land
14 books — 12 voters


Daniel Amory
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.
Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

Nelson Algren
Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.
Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

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