Hive Mind: Obscure Brilliance

We're starting a new feature called Hive Mind, where we ask fans from all around Chicago for suggestions. (Just to cover our bases: opinions belong to the book-suggesters, and don't necessarily represent the opinion of any organizations they're connected to.)

For the first installment, Obscure Brilliance, we asked folks: what are the books that you really loved, or that have stuck with you strangely over the years, but it seems like practically nobody else has ever read or even heard of them?

Read on for our obscure and brilliant suggestions!