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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 725 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,175 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.68 — 235,573 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,955 ratings — published 1906
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,391,005 ratings — published 2011
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,922 ratings — published 2018
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 169 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,859,730 ratings — published 2003
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,203 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,811 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 729,536 ratings — published 2016
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 379,530 ratings — published 2000
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,201,873 ratings — published 2018
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,112 ratings — published 1971
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 — 16,111 ratings — published 1991
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,115 ratings — published 2016
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,729 ratings — published 1996
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,141 ratings — published 1951
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,601 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 3.66 — 3,399 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 4.37 — 3,441 ratings — published 2018
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,448 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,143,973 ratings — published 2013
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,811 ratings — published 1900
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 544,715 ratings — published 2023
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 211,800 ratings — published 2001
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,715 ratings — published 1990
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,625,867 ratings — published 2012
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,980 ratings — published 2019
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,945 ratings — published 1953
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,125 ratings — published 2022
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 111,013 ratings — published 1959
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,159 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 — 117,367 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 412,729 ratings — published 2010
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 178,906 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 — 25,559 ratings — published 2008
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,288 ratings — published 2004
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,296 ratings — published 2021
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 161,940 ratings — published 2002
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 932 ratings — published 2000
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 699 ratings — published 1966
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 83,598 ratings — published 2017
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 129,306 ratings — published 2006
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,276 ratings — published 1949
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,352 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 — 4,983 ratings — published 2010
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 112,261 ratings — published 2009
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 117,379 ratings — published 2008
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,491 ratings — published 1982
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 134,696 ratings — published 2005
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.80 — 439 ratings — published 2009
“Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.”
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― Everything Matters!
“There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.”
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