Local booksellers tell us what Chicago is buying
After-words Bookstore, 23 E. Illinois St., Chicago, 312-464-1110
1. The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Vintage, $14.95 paper): A true story of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and a serial killer at its fringes.
2. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Karen Abbott (Random House, $25.95): Sex and opulence in turn-of-the-century Chicago.
3. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Dover, $3 paper): The classic novel that exposed the conditions of Chicago’s stockyards.
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $34.99): The latest and final book in the series about the boy wizard.
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Dell, $7.99 paper): A classic anti-war novel about a man who becomes a time traveler after being abducted by aliens.
