The Nix

Nathan Hill

Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

Naomi Hirahara

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Most Fun We Ever Had

Claire Lombardo

The Shining Girls

Lauren Beukes

This Thing Between Us

Gus Moreno

Three Girls from Bronzeville

Dawn Turner

Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

Mike Royko

The Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon

Last Summer on State Street

Toya Wolfe

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

Emil Ferris

Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)

Joe Meno

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

Gary Krist

In the Mecca

Gwendolyn Brooks

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

Karen Abbott

Divergent

Veronica Roth

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Alex Kotlowitz

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

Alex Kotlowitz

The Coast of Chicago

Stuart Dybek

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Hot Springs Drive

Lindsay Hunter

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

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

Isabel Wilkerson

Native Son

Richard Wright