The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Illinois

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12703 A Winter Haunting Dan Simmons 2002 American English
13217 The Crisis Winston Churchill 1901 British English
13246 When God Talks Back Tanya Luhrmann 2012 American English
13259 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
13295 Outside The Gates Of Eden Peter Bacon Hales 2014 Unknown English
13330 Olio Tyehimba Jess 2016 American English
13337 Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama 2008 American English
13340 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13362 Strange People Frank Edwards 1961 American English
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13575 The Sound Of The City Charlie Gillett 1970 British English
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13799 The Winged Seed Li-Young Lee 1995 American English
13886 Into The Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea 2009 American English
13941 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
13971 The Bridge David Remnick 2010 Unknown English
14025 The Big Book Of Adventure Stories Otto Penzler 2011 American English
14056 Sweet Soul Music Peter Guralnick 1986 American English
14232 Under A White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert 2021 American English
14374 Smoke And Steel Carl Sandburg 1920 American English
14458 Clarence Darrow For The Defense Irving Stone 1957 American English
14499 Nowhere To Run Gerri Hirshey 2001 American English
14499 Super Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt 2009 American English
14554 The Deep End Of The Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard 1996 American English
14672 Abraham Lincoln Lord Charnwood 1916 British English
14698 The Age Of American Unreason Susan Jacoby 2008 American English
14985 The Fiery Trial Eric Foner 2010 American English
14981 The Complete Poems Of Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg 1970 American English
14985 How To Read The Air Dinaw Mengestu 2010 American English
14985 A False Spring Pat Jordan 1975 American English
14985 Summer Of Night Dan Simmons 1991 American English
14985 Crossroads Jonathan Franzen 2021 American English
15567 Airport Arthur Hailey 1968 Canadian English
15567 The Last Trial Scott Turow 2020 American English
15567 Music For Wartime Rebecca Makkai 2015 American English
15594 The Making Of A Counter Culture Theodore Roszak 1969 American English
15610 Moon Calf Floyd Dell 1920 American English
15667 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway 1972 American English
15727 You Know Me Al Ring Lardner 1916 American English
15916 Experience and Education John Dewey 1938 American English
15916 The School and the Child John Dewey 1902 American English
15916 Exploring The Dangerous Trades Alice Hamilton 1943 American English
15916 American Gothic Robert Bloch 1974 American English
15916 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15916 Boss Mike Royko 1971 American English
15916 Rules For Radicals Saul D. Alinsky 1971 American English
15916 La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West Francis Parkman 1869 American English
16552 The Other America Michael Harrington 1962 American English
16589 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16727 How To Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie 1936 American English
16721 The Doctrine And Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants 1835 American English
16674 Personal Knowledge Michael Polanyi 1958 British English
17163 The Fate of Liberty Mark E. Neely, Jr 1991 American English
17163 Unequal City Carla Shedd 2015 American English
17163 The Year Of The Quiet Sun Wilson Tucker 1970 American English
16808 The Pound Era Hugh Kenner 1971 Canadian English
17163 List Of Books Frederic Raphael 1981 British Unknown
17163 The Element Of Lavishness William Maxwell 2000 American English
17163 Boggs Lawrence Weschler 1999 British English
17163 The Cliff Dwellers Henry Blake Fuller 1893 American English
17163 The Shadow Knows Diane Johnson 1974 American English
17163 Paper Fish Tina de Rosa 1980 American English
17163 Nature’s Metropolis William Cronon 1991 American English
17163 The Gospel Sound Anthony Heilbut 1971 American English
17163 The Trip To Echo Spring Olivia Laing 2013 British English
17163 Sacred Hoops Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior Phil Jackson 1995 American English
17163 The Informant Kurt Eichenwald 2000 American English
17163 If We Were Villains M. L. Rio 2017 American English
17163 An Abundance Of Katherines John Green 2006 American English
17163 Mr. X Peter Straub 1999 American English
17163 The Collected Poems Of A.K. Ramanujan A.K. Ramanujan 1995 Indian English
17163 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
17163 Eight Men Out Eliot Asinof 1963 American English
17163 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17163 Abraham Lincoln Seth Grahame-Smith 2010 American English
17163 Die Trying Lee Child 1998 British English
17163 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17163 Agnes Peter Stamm 1998 Swiss German
17163 The Paris Wife Paula McLain 2011 American English
17163 The Way We Never Were Stephanie Countz 1992 Unknown English
17163 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17163 Fool Moon Jim Butcher 2001 American English
17163 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
17163 To The Hoop Ira Berkow 1997 American English
17163 $2.00 A Day Kathryn J. Edin 2015 American English
17163 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 Emil Ferris 2024 American English
17163 Remember The First Ladies Diana B. Carlin, Anita B. McBride, Nancy Kegan Smith 2024 Unknown English
17163 Three Month Fever Gary Indiana 1999 American English
17163 Before The Storm Rick Perlstein 2001 American English
17163 A Self Made Man Sidney Blumenthal 2016 American English
17163 Lincoln's Last Trial Dan Abrams 2018 American English
17163 Deadlock Sara Paretsky 1984 American English
17163 Lincoln Fred Kaplan 2008 American English
17163 The Cardinal Sins Andrew M. Greeley 1981 American English
17163 Playing For Keeps David Halberstam 1999 American English
17163 Good Talk, Dad Bill Geist, Willie Geist 2014 American English
17163 Hip Hop Is History Questlove 2024 American Unknown
17163 Girls In White Dresses Jennifer Close 2011 American English
17163 Alone With You In The Ether Olivie Blake 2022 Unknown English
17163 The Nix Nathan Hill 2016 American English
17163 Invincible Robert Kirkman 2003 American English
17163 Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 2005 American English
17163 Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx 1996 American English
17163 The Gold Bug Variations Richard Powers 1991 American English
17163 The Great American Bus Ride Irma Kurtz 1993 Unknown English
17163 The Ultimate History Of Video Games Steven L. Kent 2001 American English
17163 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English
17163 Angela Davis Angela Davis 1974 American English
17163 Easily Slip Into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 2023 Unknown English
17163 Abolition Angela Davis 2022 American English
17163 The Rise And Fall Of The Second American Republic Manisha Sinha 2024 Unknown English
17163 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17163 America The Beautiful? Blythe Roberson 2023 Unknown English
17153 Malcolm X Malcolm X 1965 American English
17163 The Expressman And The Detective Allan Pinkerton 2004 American English
17163 The Achievements Of Luther Trant William MacHarg, Edwin Balmer 1910 American English
17163 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17163 The Long Season Jim Brosnan 1960 American English
17163 Babe Robert Creamer 1974 American English
17163 Veeck As In Wreck Bill Veeck, Ed Linn 1962 American English