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