Who else is trying to read more this year? Add these Chicago books coming out in 2024 to your reading list.
📘 This debut poetry collection from a Chicago spoken word artist explores what home does and doesn’t mean.
🖊️ Miya Coleman
🗓️ Jan. 23
📘 Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, a wealthy Black debutante and a speakeasy manager team up to investigate a shadowy figure.
🖊️ Avery Cunningham
🗓️ Jan. 30
📘 This Chicago-born poet discusses the male body, fatherhood, patriarchy, and his new home in Bloomington in a new collection.
🖊️ Dan “Sully” Sullivan”
🗓️ Feb. 6
📘 Dropped off at a Chicago orphanage as a child and sold to a traveling circus, 94-year-old Cecily Larson must now explain her past to her family after a surprise DNA test.
🖊️ Ellen Baker
🗓️ Feb. 20
📘 Read about how the state’s most powerful Democrat rose to and fell from power in this comprehensive book by a longtime Tribune journalist.
🖊️ Ray Long
🗓️ March 26
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot at then Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's inauguration at the Credit Union 1 Arena in 2023. (Antonio Perez / Tribune / Getty)
📘 Another Tribune journalist dives into the four years under Chicago’s first Black gay woman mayor including how she handled the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, battles with the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
🖊️ Gregory Royal Pratt
🗓️ April 2
Vintage copies of Jet magazine are displayed in the offices of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago in 2014. (Scott Olson / Getty)
📘 The Johnson Publishing Company, “Soul Train,” and basketball legend Michael Jordan are just a few of Black Chicago’s contributions to the world, according to a local journalist’s new book.
🖊️ Arionne Nettles
🗓️ April 16
📘 This photography book capturing Chicago's Washington Park will transport you back to the summer of 1987.
🖊️ Rose Blouin
🗓️ July 9
📘 A new book documents the ways Mexican American and Puerto Rican women in Chicago have tried to improve their communities since the 1960s.
🖊️ Rita D. Hernández, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Elena R. Gutiérrez
🗓️ July 9
