Newberry Library Bookstore
60 W. Walton St.
312-255-3520
1. Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
By Ann Durkin Keating (University of Chicago, $25 paper)
Offers the collective history of 230 Chicago neighborhoods and communities and the people who built them, with more than 100 photographs and maps.
2. The March
By E.L. Doctorow (Random House, $25.95)
The great march from Atlanta through Georgia to the Carolinas led by William Tecumseh Sherman, powerfully rendered by a master novelist.
3. Chicago in Maps: 1612 to 2002
By Robert A. Holland (Rizzoli, $50)
A history of Chicago through rare and beautiful maps.
4. The Three Incestuous Sisters
By Audrey Niffenegger (Abrams, $27.95)
From the author of “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” an artist’s book with beautiful prints.
5. The Lewis & Clark Trail: American Landscapes
By Richard Mack (Quiet Light, $72)
Richard Mack’s 248 color photographs illuminate the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
