2022: Our Year in Books

Here are all of the books that inspired Read & Run Chicago’s 2022 events. During our second year, we continued series that began in 2021, did repeats of some of our favorite events, and added in new ones.

Three Girls from Bronzeville by Dawn Turner

Historic Chicago Bakeries by Jennifer Billock

Temper by Layne Fargo

Chicago Transit Hikes by Lindsay Welbers

The Battle of Lincoln Park by Daniel Kay Hertz

The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook edited by Martha Bayne

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago by Rachel Weber

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

The Chicago River: a Natural and Unnatural History by Libby Hill

Conspiracy To Riot by Lee Weiner

Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor

Hunting for Frogs on Elston: And Other Tales From Field & Street by Jerry Sullivan

The Girls in 3-B by Valerie Taylor

Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer