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
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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