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Ramshackle

Ramshackle
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Reeder
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Roe is like any other fifteen year old suburban Chicago teenager. Her only worries are schoolwork, keeping up with her wayward best friend, and whether or not she should sleep with her boyfriend. Then her adoptive father, a locksmith,...

Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)

Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)
  • Author(s): Ed Duncan
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After enforcer Richard “Rico” Sanders stepped in to protect his girlfriend from a local mob boss’s hot-headed nephew, all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, the nephew had vanished and three goons lay dying where they’d stood. Fighting...

The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City
  • Author(s): Erik Larson
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

The story is of Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and it is fascinating because the fair ties together the past and the future when it comes to business, politics, architecture, science and culture.

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
  • Author(s): Amy Jo Cousins
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Charles “Cash” Carmichael traded his high-rise condo and family-firm career for a job coaching soccer for Chicago’s inner-city kids. He’s adjusting to living on minimum wage when his young cousin, newly out and running away from home, shows up...

The Jungle

The Jungle
  • Author(s): Upton Sinclair
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the twentieth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled...

The Last Straw (Pigeon-Blood Red Book #2)

The Last Straw (Pigeon-Blood Red Book #2)
  • Author(s): Ed Duncan
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss with no apparent motive. A black lawyer and a white enforcer with an unlikely history forge an uneasy alliance to protect...

The Shining Girls

The Shining Girls
  • Author(s): Lauren Beukes
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Periods in the 20th Century

Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature – it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen ‘shining girls’ through the...

Airport

Airport
  • Author(s): Arthur Hailey
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Only available second hand, but still a great novel set at O’Hare aiport. It is an intense, and detailed look at a few people’s lives over a period of a few hours – airport staff, airline crews, passengers, relatives.

Building Stories

Building Stories
  • Author(s): Chris Ware
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if...

Oh, Play That Thing

Oh, Play That Thing
  • Author(s): Roddy Doyle
  • Location(s): Chicago, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

It’s 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies...

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