The top 40 Chicago novels

For Chicago Magazine Geoffrey Johnson rounded up the top forty Chicago novels, including:

I Sailed with Magellan
Stuart Dybek (2003)

As James Joyce is to Dublin, Dybek is to Chicago, and these interconnected stories, centered initially on the Little Village world of Perry Katzek, may be the closest we will ever get to a novel from one of the city’s finest writers.

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The Page 99 Test: I Sailed with Magellan.

--Marshal Zeringue