Books by UChicago Faculty, Staff, and Alumni

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Horse Racing the Chicago Way: Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911
Horse Racing the Chicago Way: Gambling, Politics, and Organized Crime, 1837-1911 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented
Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented 3.84 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History 3.74 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Benefit Street: A Novel
Benefit Street: A Novel 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z
Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family 3.58 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival
The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival 3.66 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication
Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River 4.09 avg rating — 911 ratings
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American Blood: Selected Writings 1961-2020
American Blood: Selected Writings 1961-2020 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale 3.94 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By 3.87 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement 4.27 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret Masterpieces
Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Secret Masterpieces 4.31 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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There Was an Old Man with a Springbok
There Was an Old Man with a Springbok it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Prince Harry Boy to Man
Prince Harry Boy to Man 3.55 avg rating — 71 ratings
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14 Hollow Road
14 Hollow Road 4.10 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Crimes Against a Book Club
Crimes Against a Book Club 3.64 avg rating — 15,309 ratings
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Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read
Literary Libations: What to Drink with What You Read 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion
May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion 3.32 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Severance
Severance
by: Ling Ma
3.89 avg rating — 122,985 ratings
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Replica (Replica, #1)
Replica (Replica, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 17,294 ratings
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Delirium (Delirium, #1)
Delirium (Delirium, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 476,712 ratings
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Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)
Pandemonium (Delirium, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 244,503 ratings
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Requiem (Delirium, #3)
Requiem (Delirium, #3) 3.73 avg rating — 153,533 ratings
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Panic (Panic, #1)
Panic (Panic, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 62,938 ratings
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Vanishing Girls
Vanishing Girls 3.57 avg rating — 33,042 ratings
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Hana (Delirium, #1.5)
Hana (Delirium, #1.5) 3.63 avg rating — 24,011 ratings
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Annabel (Delirium, #0.5)
Annabel (Delirium, #0.5) 3.75 avg rating — 16,911 ratings
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Broken Things
Broken Things 3.57 avg rating — 15,004 ratings
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Ringer (Replica, #2)
Ringer (Replica, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 4,209 ratings
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Good as Gone
Good as Gone 3.46 avg rating — 38,928 ratings
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Listen to Me
Listen to Me 2.85 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
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The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found 3.69 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Eat & Greet: Unforgettable Party Menus from Your Kitchen
Eat & Greet: Unforgettable Party Menus from Your Kitchen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Hair: A Human History
Hair: A Human History 3.49 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Don't Go
Don't Go it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Fates Will Find Their Way
The Fates Will Find Their Way 3.17 avg rating — 4,056 ratings
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Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris
Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris 3.41 avg rating — 841 ratings
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72 Wisdoms: A practical guide to make life more meaningful
72 Wisdoms: A practical guide to make life more meaningful it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Choosing Leadership: A Workbook
Choosing Leadership: A Workbook 4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Migration and Health
Migration and Health 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Scenturion Spy: Book One - Becoming a Spy
The Scenturion Spy: Book One - Becoming a Spy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish: A Guide for Parents and Professionals 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics 4.05 avg rating — 676 ratings
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Mrs Queen Takes the Train
Mrs Queen Takes the Train 3.56 avg rating — 7,607 ratings
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The Things We Save
The Things We Save 3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You: A Field Guide to the Bible
Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You: A Field Guide to the Bible 4.46 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Robert Preston: Forever The Music Man
Robert Preston: Forever The Music Man 4.30 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence 4.27 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern)
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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American Mermaid
American Mermaid 3.24 avg rating — 4,387 ratings
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Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society
Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society 3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization
Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life 3.66 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory
Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)
The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 3,374 ratings
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The Scratch Daughters (Scapegracers, #2)
The Scratch Daughters (Scapegracers, #2) 4.45 avg rating — 883 ratings
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Exhibit Alexandra
Exhibit Alexandra 3.26 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Things You Can't Say
Things You Can't Say 4.21 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa
Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa
by: Daryl Kho
4.45 avg rating — 148 ratings
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 3.67 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Contact
Contact 4.15 avg rating — 150,012 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 241,474 ratings
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Portnoy’s Complaint
Portnoy’s Complaint 3.71 avg rating — 72,177 ratings
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars 3.97 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Sovereignty Unhinged: An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporal Derangements
Sovereignty Unhinged: An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporal Derangements it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace 3.92 avg rating — 771 ratings
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The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise
Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise 3.88 avg rating — 272 ratings
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More Than Meat and Raiment: Poems
More Than Meat and Raiment: Poems 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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World Christianity and Indigenous Experience: A Global History, 1500–2000
World Christianity and Indigenous Experience: A Global History, 1500–2000 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later
Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery 4.07 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Banyan Moon
Banyan Moon
by: Thao Thai
3.90 avg rating — 31,391 ratings