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Book List: Chicago
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Want to get away... but not too far away? Enjoy these books that take place in one of the greatest cities on earth: Chicago!

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Nonfiction

Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott

Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren

Eight Men Out: the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof 

Lake Effect by Rich Cohn 

To Sleep with the Angels: the Story of a Fire by David Cowan and John Kuenster

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

The Beast of Chicago: an Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett by Rick Geary 

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam

Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by LeAlan Jones 

There Are No Children Here: the Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Other America by Alex Kotlowitz 

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 

Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 by Robert Loerzel

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko 

My Bloody Life: the Making of a Latin King and Once a King, Always a King: the Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez 

Lady Q: the Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen by Reymundo Sanchez and Sonia Rodriguez

Division Street America by Studs Terkel 

Gang Leader for a Day: a Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh


Fiction

Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren 

Blackbird Singing by Jay Amberg 

Leavin' Trunk Blues by Ace Atkins 

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow 

The Seven Rays by Jessica Bendinger

Chime by Franny Billingsley

Jackson Park by Michael A. Black 

Something Wicked This Way Comes and others by Ray Bradbury 

Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

The Book by M. Clifford

Chicago Confidential by Max Allan Collins 

Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins

Hardball by Barbara D'Amato 

I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 

I Sailed With Magellan and The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek 

Perfect Chemistry and others by Simone Elkeles

Travel Writing by Peter Ferry 

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

Crossing California by Adam Langer

Chicks with Sticks: (It's a Purl Thing) by Elizabeth Lenhard 

Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 

Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky 

Death in Uptown by Michael Raleigh 

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Coffee Will Make You Black by April SInclair 

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 

The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith 

The Espressologist by Kristina Springer

Native Son by Richard Wright 



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