Novels set in Chicago

'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli

2011 novel by Veronica Roth

1983 novel by Stephen King

novel by Upton Sinclair

2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger

is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Katsumi Enami. The series, told from multiple points of view, is mostly set within a fictional United States across time most notably the Prohibition era. Its characters includes alchemists, thieves, thugs, Mafiosi and Camorristi, who are, at first, unconnected to one another. After an immortality elixir is recreated in 1930 Manhattan, the characters begin to cross paths, setting off events that spiral further and further out of control.

2012 novel by Veronica Roth

novel by Theodore Dreiser

2010 novel by Rick Riordan

2013 novel by Veronica Roth

novel by Eoin Colfer

2007 novel by John Green

1953 novel by Saul Bellow

novel by Theodore Dreiser

novel by Lee Child

1968 novel by Arthur Hailey

1984 novel by Sandra Cisneros

novel by Sidney Sheldon

book series by Jim Butcher

2004 novel by Blue Balliett

novel by Sinclair Lewis

novel by Willa Cather

1944 novel by Saul Bellow

Ravelstein is Saul Bellow's final novel. Published in 2000, when Bellow was eighty-five years old, it received widespread critical acclaim. It tells the tale of a friendship between a university professor and a writer, and the complications that animate their erotic and intellectual attachments in the face of impending death. The novel is a roman à clef written in the form of a memoir. The narrator is in Paris with Abe Ravelstein, a renowned professor, and Nikki, his lover. Ravelstein, who is dying, asks the narrator to write a memoir about him after he dies. After his death, the narrator and

novel by John Grisham

1940 novel by Richard Wright

novel by Theodore Dreiser