Stay in and Read: Visionary Books of the Fall Season

We’re all re-envisioning what we thought we knew about our past, present, and future. As CHF’s Year of Vision wraps up (and winter reading season begins), we’re looking back at all the great books of the year so we can dream big and travel far without leaving our homes — come read with us! Click the links below to order copies of your favorite books from our partner the Seminary Co-op, and get inspired by the authors themselves with our vast video collection.

ILLUMINATING THE PAST

The Hardest Job in the World by John Dickerson

Where the Future Came from: A Collective Research Project on the Role of Feminism in Chicago's Artist-Run Culture from the Late-Nineteenth Century by Meg Duguid

Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating by Matthew L. M .Fletcher

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation by Rebecca K Marchiel

Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich

Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City by Carl Smith

CHF is proud to partner with Seminary Co-op, a not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling.

[Hero image description: The banner image at the top of the web page is a collage of book covers. Top row from left to right: Just Like You by Nick Hornby, Chicago’s Great Fire by Carl Smith, The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E. Joseph, Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. Middle row from left to right: The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus, The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom, The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein), For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles. Bottom row from left to right: The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza, Dearly by Margaret Atwood, Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine, Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer.]