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A List of the Most Popular Books by Chicago Authors - 2018

•  FICTION

• Women Fiction/Popular Fiction/Other 

• A Girl’s Guide to Chicago by: Kelly Russell ( Women Fiction) - https://goo.gl/ciCnHQ

• Hot Mess by: Emily Belden (Women Fiction) - https://goo.gl/hFbDf4

• Cicada Summer by: Maureen Lipinski (Womens Fiction) - https://goo.gl/E1kpjn

• Livestock!: A Rock n Roll by: Matt McCarthy (Popular Fiction) - https://goo.gl/A81Bfc

• Nineteen Hundred Days by: Florence Osmund (Popular Fiction) - https://goo.gl/rvyg7H

•  A Well-Respected Man by: David W Berner (Popular Fiction) - https://goo.gl/r3qNb3

• Love Me...Please by: Toneal M. Jackson (Popular Fiction) - https://goo.gl/25syq7

• Lines? by: Geralyn Hesslau Magrady (Historical Fiction) - https://goo.gl/5CFtjX

• Herself When Shes Missing by: Sarah Terez Rosenblum  (Popular Fiction) - https://goo.gl/3gHgF4

• Face Your Fears by: Bill Mathis - (Popular Fiction)  https://goo.gl/QdUFBj

• The Fourteenth of September: A Novel by: Rita Dragonette (Popular Fiction) - https://goo.gl/jjC7uu

• Season of Lies by: Dennis Hetzel (Sports Fiction) - https://goo.gl/FyJS2V

• Humorous Fiction 

• Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by: Juliet McDaniel (Humorous Fiction) - https://goo.gl/btpQ3t

• Family & Other Catastrophes by: Alexandra Borowitz (Humorous Fiction) - https://goo.gl/jSDvJF

• Chuckerman Makes a Movie by: Francie Arenson Dickman (Humorous Fiction) - https://goo.gl/cwWkmE

• Thrillers/Mysteries/Crime 

• Afterlife by: Marcus Sakey (Thrillers) - https://goo.gl/gYxVei

• Don’t You Cry by: Mary Kubica  (Psychological Thrillers)- https://goo.gl/ABWi2L

• The Great Believers by: Rebecca Makkai (Psychological Thrillers)- https://goo.gl/xkz7Tb

• The Heiress in Kent: Kopp Chronicles by: Greg Kopp (Mystery) - https://goo.gl/cVd17j

• A Fine Line (A Sebastian Drake Novel) by: Dan Burns (Mystery) - https://goo.gl/hajo8D

• Extradition by: Sandra M. Colbert (Mystery)- https://goo.gl/oKpuQd

• Killing the Curse by: Dennis Hetzel (Thrillers) - https://goo.gl/5HYFvr

• Dark Money by: John Risvold (Thrillers) - https://goo.gl/AxTos2

• The Apothecarys Curse by: Barbara Barnett (Thrillers) - https://goo.gl/fhio8K

• Shepherd & the Professor by: Dan Klefstad (Crime) - https://goo.gl/JpDh29

• RAZORBACK: gripping crime fiction, full of suspense by: Lou Holly (Polticial Thrillers) - https://goo.gl/ipUHFN

• The Callies Kitchen Cozy Mystery Series Boxed Set: Books 1 - 3 by: Jenny Kales (Mystery) - https://goo.gl/6DQUbi

• The Governors Daughter: The Mysteries of Colonial Cambodia by: Sambath Meas (Mystery)- https://goo.gl/55NNgq

• Trial and Commitment by: J. Gasparich (Thrillers) - https://goo.gl/gCJmNa

• Science Fiction

• The Cube by: Kelly Weiss (Science Fiction) - https://goo.gl/kAXTu5

• Edju by: RW Spryszak (Gothic Fiction) - https://goo.gl/rq1NYf

• Days of Darkness: Awakening (Book 1) by: Angelo Jackson (Science Fiction) - https://goo.gl/pN65JD

• Jupiter Justice by: Donald Hunt (Science Fiction) - https://goo.gl/pEfWsw

• Original Syn by: Beth Kande (Science Fiction) - https://goo.gl/M442TW

• The Swan Prince (The Wilderhark Tales #1) by: Danielle E. Shipley (Fantasty Romance) - https://goo.gl/GuCbJb

• A Glance at My Other by: Bruce Randal Wilkerson (Magical Fiction) - https://goo.gl/3ZEfyL

• The Conversions by: Theodore Richards (Science Fiction) - https://goo.gl/yiUWhC

• Young Adult /Children 

• The Window by: Amelia Brunskill (YA) - https://goo.gl/duQkdE

• Zenn Diagram by: Wendy Brant (YA) - https://goo.gl/pHMZka

• The Commons, Book 1: The Journeyman by: Michael Alan Peck (YA) - https://goo.gl/im7mAJ

• Ashers Fault by: Elizabeth Wheeler (YA) - https://goo.gl/UWeG51

• Finnigan the Circus Cat by: Mary T Wagner (Children) - https://goo.gl/3kGiHf

• Christianna by: Ms. Sonja Michelle Crockett (Children)- https://goo.gl/pWLiU4

• On a Summer Night by: Gabriel D Vidrine (YA) - https://goo.gl/Q99n8U

• Deception So Deadly (Volume 1) by: Clara Kensie (YA) - https://goo.gl/v5hBtk

• Another D for DeeDee by: Bibi Belford (Children) - https://goo.gl/CExKT2

• Short Stories/ Poetry 

• A Belgian Assortment: Brussels Short Stories by: T D Arkenberg (Short Stories) - https://goo.gl/5SHtCg

• Animals on Buses by: Adam Lawson (Short Stories) - https://goo.gl/1WnLKC

• This Far Isnt Far Enough by: Lynn Sloan (Short Stories) - https://goo.gl/vN1h6J

• Skating on the Vertical: Stories by: Jan English Leary (Short Stories) - https://goo.gl/FRErtv

• when willow weeps by: Tish de la Mora (Poetry) - https://goo.gl/MVLX6r

• Oh, The Places I Have Traveled by: Renee J. Nowlin (Poetry)  - https://goo.gl/NJZkc3

• NONFICTION

• Memoirs/Biographies

• Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by: Linda Gartz  (Biograhpies) - https://goo.gl/CMtEpD

• My Sisters Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalins Siberia by: Donna Urbikas (Memoir) - https://goo.gl/jWb74u

• Cubsessions by: By: Becky Sarwate and Randy Richardson (Memoir) - https://goo.gl/9M5CQx

• Housing Projects, Mansions & Schools: An Educators Odyssey by: Roger Prosise (Biographies) -  https://goo.gl/V6ZbHG

• Mollies War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe by: Mollie Weinstein Schaffer (Biographies) - https://goo.gl/ArSpxZ

• Walk Until Sunrise by: J.J. Maze (Memoirs) - https://goo.gl/qBXv8J

• Girl Seeking Pearls: An Autobiographical Kaleidoscope and Collection of Experiences by: Esperanza Smith (Biographies) - https://goo.gl/L1NVRU

• Doin’ the Cruise: Memories From A Lifetime in Radio and Rock & Roll by: Mitch Michaels with Ken Churilla (Biographies) - https://goo.gl/DSTaVd

• Gypsy Music Street by: Roberta Dietzen (Biographies) - https://goo.gl/zF8aQ4

• Giant Love Song: A Memoir by: Maureen Muldoon (Biographies) - https://goo.gl/DsCpVK

• Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement by: Arthur Melville Pearson (Biographies)- https://goo.gl/mE82hM

• Self Help

• Humor, Comedy & Sketch Writing by: Ed Toolis  (Self Help) - https://goo.gl/QapBc6

• The Single Christian Womans Guide: Wisdom in Getting to Our God-Ordained Man of Promise by: Russelyn Williams (Self Help) - https://goo.gl/qU1RgC

• Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop by Marty McConnell (Self Help) - https://goo.gl/1uvVVW

• Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinicians Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment by: Jan Willer (Clinical Psychology)- https://goo.gl/vapccM

• Friend Grief and Anger: When Your Friend Dies and No One Gives A Damn - by: Victoria Noe (Self Help)  - https://goo.gl/eiPvoT 

• Weddings Unfiltered: The No Bullsh*t Wedding Planning Guide by: Jessica Sclafini (Self Help) - https://goo.gl/rDCQyQ

• The Buddha at My Table: How I Found Peace in Betrayal and Divorce by: Tammy Letherer  (Self Help) - https://goo.gl/gCCYe6

• Other

• Chicago Stories: Policing, Pests, and Pestilence by: Peter V. Bella (Short Stories) - https://goo.gl/MKa62j

• Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age by: Katherine Ozment (Religion) - https://goo.gl/6wjvTE

• Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs: From Wild Boar to Baconfest (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy) by: Cynthia Clampitt  (Food History) - https://goo.gl/3p5mb6

• The Real News!: The Never-Before-Told Stories of Donald Trump & Fake News! by: John Bernard Ruane  (Political Humor) - https://goo.gl/8VNVmR

• Overland: Remembering Southeast Asia by: Caryn Green (Adventure Travel) - https://goo.gl/Rwh64W

• Manage Your Financial Life: A Thoughtful, Organized Approach for Women by: Nancy Doyle (Personal Finance)  - https://goo.gl/jNRBxe 

• Zombie Gardening by: Adam Kessel (Graphic Novels) - https://goo.gl/29JwTD

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