Read Local…Illinois Novelists

Lori B. Andrews
Immunity

Charlene Ann Baumbich  
Stray Affections

Elizabeth Berg  
The Last Time I Saw You

Michael A. Black 
A Killing Frost

Robert Olen Butler
Fair Warning

Barbara D’Amato 
Foolproof

D. C. Brod  
Getting Sassy

Sean Chercover
Trigger City

Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street

Max Allan Collins
Road to Paradise

Jeanne M. Dams
Indigo Christmas: A Hilda Johansson Mystery

Stuart Dybek
I Sailed with Magellan

Michael Allen Dymmoch
M.I.A.

Jamie Freveletti   
Running Dark

Andrew M. Greeley
The Cardinal Virtues

Brian Gruley  
The Hanging Tree: A Starvation Lake Mystery

Kevin Guilfoile
The Thousand

E. Lynn Harris
In My Father’s House

Michael T. Harvey 
The Third Rail

William Elliott Hazelgrove
Rocket Man

Larry Heinemann
Paco’s Story

David Heinzmann
A Word to the Wise

Robert Hellenga
Philosophy Made Simple

Libby Fischer Hellmann
A Shot to Die For

Aleksandar Hemon  
The Lazarus Project

Ward S. Just
An Unfinished Season

Stuart M. Kaminsky  
A Whisper to the Living

Henry Kisor
Cache of Corpses

Jim Kokoris
Sister North

Joe Konrath 
Cherry Bomb: A Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels Mystery

William Kent Krueger 
Vermilion Drift

Stephanie Kuehnert 
Ballads of Suburbia

Adam Langer
The Thieves of Manhattan

Cathie Linz
Luck Be a Lady  

Diane Gilbert Madsen
Hunting for Hemingway: A D.D. McGil Literati Mystery

Alex Matthews
Blood’s Burden

Ralph McInerny
Sham Rock

Frances McNamara 
Death at Hull House

Jacqueline Mitchard
Watch for Me by Moonlight: A Midnight Twins Novel

Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

Clare O’Donohue 
TheDouble Cross: A Someday Quilts Mystery

Sara Paretsky
Body Work

Henry Perez
Mourn the Living

Jerry A.  Peterson 
Early’s Fall: A James Early Mystery

Harry Mark Petrakis 
Twilight of the Ice

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Call Me Irresistible

Richard Powers
The Echo Maker

Michael Raleigh  
In the Castle of the Flynns

Sam Reaves 
Mean Town Blues

Kathy Reichs
Spider Bones

Anthony Romano 
If You Eat, You Never Die: Chicago Tales

Mary Doria Russell
Dreamers of the Day

Theresa Schwegel  
Last Known Address

Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries

Scott Simon
Pretty Birds

April Sinclair
Ain’t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice

Bruce Steinberg as B. R. Robb
River Ghosts

Dawn Turner Trice
An Eighth of August

Scott Turow
Limitations

David J. Walker
No Show of Remorse

Mary Welk 
The Rune Stone Murders

Mark Richard Zubro
Hook, Line, and Homicide

Nelson Algren   *   Sherwood Anderson   *  L. Frank Baum
  Saul Bellow   *   Ray Bradbury   *   Edgar Rice Burroughs
Theodore Dreiser   *   James T. Farrell *    Edna Ferber
Hamlin Garland  *   Ernest Hemingway   *   Ring Lardner
William Maxwell    * Frank Norris   *   Frederik Pohl
Upton Sinclair    * Richard Wright

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