| Title | Author/Editor | Published | Categories | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Culture’s Garland |
Eugene Field
Eugene Field link |
1887 | NFMA |
| 2. |
Twenty Years at Hull House |
Jane Addams
Jane Addams link |
1909 | NFMA |
| 3. |
My Chicago |
Anna Morgan
Anna Morgan link |
1918 | NFMA |
| 4. |
The Autobiography of an Idea |
Louis Sullivan | 1924 | MA |
| 5. |
My 30 Years War: The Autobiography |
Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson link |
1930 | MA |
| 6. |
My Thirty Years’ War |
Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson link |
1930 | MA |
| 7. |
The Second Twenty Years at Hull House |
Jane Addams
Jane Addams link |
1930 | NFMA |
| 8. |
Homecoming: An Autobiography |
Floyd Dell
Floyd Dell link |
1933 | NFMA |
| 9. |
Across Spoon River |
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters link |
1936 | MA |
| 10. |
A Poet’s Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World |
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe link |
1938 | NFMA |
| 11. |
The Road of a Naturalist |
Donald Culross Peattie | 1941 | NFMAPt |
| 12. |
Black Boy |
Richard Wright
Richard Wright link |
1945 | NFMA |
| 13. |
American Daughter |
Era Bell Thompson
Era Bell Thompson link |
1946 | MA |
| 14. |
Reporter: A Memoir |
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh link |
1951 | NFMA |
| 15. |
Always the Young Stranger |
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg link |
1953 | NFMA |
| 16. |
Fabulous Chicago |
Emmett Dedmon
Emmett Dedmon link |
1953 | NFCSMA |
| 17. |
A Child of the Century: The Autobiography of Ben Hecht |
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht link |
1954 | NFMA |
| 18. |
Chicago, With Love: A Polite and Personal History |
Arthur Meeker, Jr.
Arthur Meeker link |
1955 | NFMA |
| 19. |
A Touch of Innocence |
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham link |
1959 | NFMA |
| 20. |
The Strange Necessity: The Autobiography |
Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson link |
1962 | MA |
| 21. |
The Unknowable Gurdjieff A memoir dedicated to her partner, Jane Heap. |
Margaret Anderson
Margaret Anderson link |
1962 | MA |
| 22. |
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black |
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry link |
1969 | MA |
| 23. |
How I Wrote Jubilee |
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker link |
1972 | NFMA |
| 24. |
Many Lives, One Love |
Fanny Butcher
Fanny Butcher link |
1972 | NFMA |
| 25. |
Report from Part One |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1972 | NFMA |
| 26. |
American Hunger |
Richard Wright
Richard Wright link |
1977 | NFMA |
| 27. |
The Diaries of Willard Motley |
Jerome Klinkowitz (editor) | 1978 | MA |
| 28. |
The Secrets of Grown-Ups |
Vera Caspary
Vera Caspary link |
1979 | NFMA |
| 29. |
An Autobiography of Black Chicago |
Dempsey Travis
Dempsey J. Travis link |
1981 | NFMA |
| 30. |
To Disembark |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1981 | SSMAPt |
| 31. |
On Assignment |
Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis link |
1983 | NFMA |
| 32. |
Confessions of a Parish Priest: An Autobiography |
Andrew Greeley
Father Andrew Greeley link |
1986 | NFMA |
| 33. |
Blacks |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1987 | FNFMAPt |
| 34. |
Kup: A Man, an Era, a City |
Irv Kupcinet
Irv Kupcinet link |
1988 | NFMA |
| 35. |
I Came A Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl |
Hilda Satt Polachek
Hilda Satt Polachek link |
1989 | NFMA |
| 36. |
It’s Always Something |
Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner link |
1989 | NFMA |
| 37. |
Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University |
John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link |
1992 | NFSSMA |
| 38. |
The Hottest Water in Chicago: On Family, Race, Time, and American Culture This collection includes the essay, “Waiting for Godot on Jeffrey Boulevard.” |
Gayle Pemberton | 1992 | MA |
| 39. |
Dreams From My Father |
Barrack Obama
Barrack Obama link |
1995 | NFMA |
| 40. |
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King |
B.B. King and David Ritz
B.B. King link |
1996 | NFMA |
| 41. |
Report from Part Two |
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks link |
1996 | NFMA |
| 42. |
Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion |
Natasha Tarpley
Natasha Tarpley link |
1998 | NFMA |
| 43. |
Furthermore: Memories of a Parish Priest |
Andrew Greeley
Father Andrew Greeley link |
1999 | NFMA |
| 44. |
Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors |
Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek link |
1999 | NFMA |
| 45. |
Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady |
Marie James and Jane Hertenstein
Jane Hertenstein link |
1999 | NFMA |
| 46. |
The Soup Has Many Eyes: From Shtetl to Chicago: a Memoir of One Family’s Journey Through History |
Joann Rose Leonard
Joann Rose Leonard link |
2000 | NFMA |
| 47. |
Days and Nights at The Second City |
Bernard Sahlins
Bernard Sahlins link |
2001 | NFMA |
| 48. |
Lake Effect |
Rich Cohen
Rich Cohen link |
2002 | NFMA |
| 49. |
Chaka! Through the Fire |
Chaka Khan and Tonya Bolden
Chaka Khan link |
2003 | NFMA |
| 50. |
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker |
James McManus
James McManus link |
2003 | NFMA |
| 51. |
The Pied Piper of South Shore |
Caryn Lazar Amster
Caryn Lazar Amster link |
2004 | MA |
| 52. |
Physical: An American Checkup, |
James McManus
James McManus link |
2005 | NFMA |
| 53. |
YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life |
Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti link |
2005 | NFMA |
| 54. |
A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago Chicago Tribune theater critic chronicles the city's theater history, including the era of the Oriental. |
Richard Christiansen
Richard Christiansen link |
2006 | NFMA |
| 55. |
I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny |
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart link |
2006 | NFMA |
| 56. |
Southside Kid: Chicago |
L. Curt Erler | 2006 | NFMA |
| 57. |
Sox and the City: A Fan’s Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of ’67 to the Wizards of Oz |
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper link |
2006 | NFLSMA |
| 58. |
Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar |
Donda West and Karen Hunter | 2007 | NFMABio |
| 59. |
Touch and Go: A Memoir |
Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel link |
2007 | MA |
| 60. |
Drunkard: A Hard Drinking Life |
Neil Steinberg
Neil Steinberg link |
2008 | NFMA |
| 61. |
P.S. Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening |
Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel link |
2008 | MA |
| 62. |
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 |
Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti link |
2009 | FCSMAPt |
| 63. |
South Shore Days 1940’s and ‘50s |
Gerald J. Lewis | 2009 | NFMA |
| 64. |
Talk Thai |
Ira Sukrungruang
Ira Sukrungruang link |
2010 | NFMA |
| 65. |
Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family |
Deirdre Marie Capone
Deirdre Marie Capone link |
2010 | NFMA |
| 66. |
The Cooked Seed |
Anchee Min | 2013 | NFMA |
| 67. |
You Can Take the Girl Out of Chicago: Tales of My Wayward Youth |
Dorothy Sinclair | 2013 | NFSSMA |
| 68. |
Song of My Life |
Harry Mark Petrakis
Harry Mark Petrakis link |
2014 | NFMA |
| 69. |
Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead |
Christian Picciolini
Christian Piccolini link |
2015 | NFMA |
| 70. |
My Cubs: A Love Story |
Scott Simon
Scott Simon link |
2017 | NFLSMA |
| 71. |
The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid |
John McNally
John McNally link |
2017 | NFMA |
| 72. |
Citizen Illegal |
José Olivarez
José Olivarez link |
2018 | FNFSSMAPt |
| 73. |
“The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood” |
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link |
2019 | CSMA |
| 74. |
Once I Was You |
Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa link |
2020 | NFMA |
| 75. |
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason |
Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello link |
2021 | NovMA |
| 76. |
Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood |
Dawn Turner
Dawn Turner link |
2021 | MA |
| 77. |
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties |
John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link |
2022 | MA |
| 78. |
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER |
Thomas Fisher
Thomas Fisher link |
2022 | NFMA |
| 79. |
Feloniously Yours |
Dennis Foley
Dennis Foley link |
2023 | MA |
| 80. |
Lilacs of Douglas Park |
Sheryl L. Fuller | 2024 | MA |
| 81. |
Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work |
Zak Mucha
Zak Mucha link |
2024 | NFMA |
| 82. |
And You Will Call It Fate |
Timothy J. Hillegonds
Timothy J. Hillegonds link |
2026 | NFMA |
| 83. |
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young |
Zayd Ayers Dohrn
Zayd Ayers Dohrn link |
2026 | NFMA |