The ten best Chicago books of 2020
Add these stories rooted in the city to your reading list. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Canceled events, publishing delays, shuttered bookstores—in many ways, 2020 was an awful year for Chicago writers. But it was a fantastic year for Chicago readers, at least when it comes to new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. To keep this list manageable, I've limited it to books with a strong emphasis on the city itself. That means you won't see books set elsewhere, like Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive and Kathleen Rooney's Hood Feminism. Nonetheless, here are my favorite Chicago-focused ...
Source: chicagoreader.com