Nelson Algren

42 books

Chicago Noir: The Classics by Joe Meno

Chicago Noir: The Classics

Akashic Noir

Joe Meno

288 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction mystery short stories dark mysterious slow-paced
Chicago: City on the Make by Bill Savage, Nelson Algren, David Schmittgens, Studs Terkel

Chicago: City on the Make

Bill Savage, Nelson Algren, David Schmittgens, Studs Terkel

135 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
Entrapment and Other Writings by Dan Simon, Brooke Horvath, Nelson Algren

Entrapment and Other Writings

Dan Simon, Brooke Horvath, Nelson Algren

304 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction essays short stories reflective slow-paced
The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, William J. Savage Jr., Daniel Simon, Studs Terkel

The Man With the Golden Arm

Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, William J. Savage Jr., Daniel Simon, Studs Terkel

464 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Nelson Algren's Book of Lonesome Monsters by Joseph Heller, H.E.F Donohue, Brock Brower, Hughes Rudd, James Blake, Nelson Algren, Joan Kerckhoff, Bruce Jay Friedman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon, Chandler Brossard, Bernard Farbar

Nelson Algren's Book of Lonesome Monsters

Joseph Heller, H.E.F Donohue, Brock Brower, Hughes Rudd, James Blake, Nelson Algren, Joan Kerckhoff, Bruce Jay Friedman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon, Chandler Brossard, Bernard Farbar

207 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction short stories informative reflective medium-paced
The Neon Wilderness by Tom Carson, Nelson Algren, Terry Southern, Studs Terkel

The Neon Wilderness

Tom Carson, Nelson Algren, Terry Southern, Studs Terkel

308 pages • first pub 1946 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
The Neon Wilderness; The Man With The Golden Arm; A Walk On The Wild Side by Nelson Algren

The Neon Wilderness; The Man With The Golden Arm; A Walk On The Wild Side

Nelson Algren

985 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Never Come Morning by H.E.F Donohue, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut

Never Come Morning

H.E.F Donohue, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut

310 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century by William Carlos Williams, John Steinbeck, Saki, W. Somerset Maugham, John Collier, Irwin Shaw, John Cheever, Sinclair Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Hemingway, Mary McCarthy, Albert Erskine, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, Seán Ó Faoláin, Conrad Aiken, James Thurber, Sherwood Anderson, A.E. Coppard, Katherine Anne Porter, Frank O'Connor, Nelson Algren, James Joyce, Peter Taylor, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Stafford, J.F. Powers, Ring Lardner, Elizabeth Parsons, Stephen Crane, Elizabeth Taylor, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, H.L. Davis, Eudora Welty

Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century

William Carlos Williams, John Steinbeck, Saki, W. Somerset Maugham, John Collier, Irwin Shaw, John Cheever, Sinclair Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Hemingway, Mary McCarthy, Albert Erskine, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, Seán Ó Faoláin, Conrad Aiken, James Thurber, Sherwood Anderson, A.E. Coppard, Katherine Anne Porter, Frank O'Connor, Nelson Algren, James Joyce, Peter Taylor, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Stafford, J.F. Powers, Ring Lardner, Elizabeth Parsons, Stephen Crane, Elizabeth Taylor, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, H.L. Davis, Eudora Welty

528 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

fiction classics short stories informative slow-paced
Somebody in Boots by Nelson Algren

Somebody in Boots

Nelson Algren

256 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced