A List of Hyde Park Book Club Past Books

Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park

by Susan O’Connor Davis; University of Chicago Press, 2013, 504p.


Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

by The Caxton Club; University of Chicago Press, 2019, 336p.


Culture of Opportunity: Obama’s Chicago, the people,  politics and ideas of Hyde Park

by Rebecca Janowitz; Ivan R. Dee, 2010, 256p.


The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

by Thomas Dyja; Penguin Books, 2013, 544p


The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of Americas’ Most Infamous Crimes

by Nina Barrett

Agate Midway, 2018, 304p


Where Has All the Ivy Gone?

by Muriel Beadle; Doubleday, 1972, 395p


Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

by Ruth H. Howes & Caroline L. Herzenberg

Temple University Press, 2003, 264p


Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side

by Eve L. Ewing

University of Chicago Press, 2018, 240p


High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

by Ben Austen

Harper, 2019, 400p


Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family

by Ronne Hartfield; University of Chicago Press, 2004, 224p


A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

by Claire Hartfield

Clarion Books, 2018, 208p



 

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson; Crown, 2003, 208p


The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

by Laura Kaplan; University of Chicago Press, 1997, 314p


Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

by Lee Bey; Northwestern University Press, 2019, 192p


The Housewife Loved a Bandit

by Larry Baran; Larry Baran, 2017, 234p


Native Son

by Richard Wright, 1940


Maud Martha

by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1953


The Lake on Fire

by Rosellen Brown; Saraband Books, 2018, 320p


Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City

by Clara Louise Burnham, 1894


The Adventures of Augie March

by Saul Bellow, 1953


Chasing Vermeer

By Blue Balliett; Scholastic Paperbacks, 2005, 304p


Death at the Fair: An Emily Cabot Mystery

By Frances McNamara; Allium Press of Chicago, 2008, 211p


Indemnity Only

By Sara Paretsky, 1991


That Hyde Park Affair: Kelly O’Quinn Mystery #5 by Barry Kritzberg