The Reading Passport: Books set in Illinois

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Itinerary

📚 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell - Historical Fiction
📚 The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton - Historical Fiction
📚 Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt - Historical Fiction/YA
📚 Ordinary People by Judith Guest - Contemporary Fiction
📚 Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah - Contemporary Fiction
📚 Summer of Night by Dan Simmons (Seasons of Horror #1) - Horror
📚 Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers - Literary Fiction
📚 The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder - Literary Fiction
📚 Fairy Tale by Stephen King - Fantasy
📚 Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks (The Word & The Void #1) - Science Fiction/Fantasy
📚 Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (Green Town #1) - Short Stories/Fantasy

Featured City: Chicago

📚 Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair (Stevie Stevenson #1) - Historical Fiction
📚 Native Son by Richard Wright - Historical Fiction
📚 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - Historical Fiction
📚 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - Historical Fiction
📚 Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1) - Cozy Mystery
📚 The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes - Mystery/Thriller/Horror
📚 A Girl Like You by Michelle Cox (Henrietta and Inspector Howard #1) - Mystery/Historical Fiction/Romance
📚 Divergent by Veronica Roth (Divergent #1) - YA/Science Fiction
📚 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - Science Fiction

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