Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: AdultsSelectionFavorite Books2023

Given by Chicago Public Library

Other Names: Chicago Public Library Adults Best of the Best Books
87 Works 46,936 Books 1,998 Reviews 4.0

"Each year, a team of CPL librarians evaluates the year’s new books and selects the best books for Chicago's adults."

Stages:
All, Selection (1,179), Top Ten (90), Top 20 (20)
Categories:
All, Favorite Books (87)
Years:
All, 2023 (87)

Selection 87

WorkYear
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah2023
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian2023
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry2023
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin2023
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir by Victoria Belim2023
The Talk by Darrin Bell2023
The Postcard by Anne Berest2023
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg2023
Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal2023
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle2023
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon2023
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan2023
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle2023
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati2023
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton2023
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles2023
A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung2023
The Guest by Emma Cline2023
Monica by Daniel Clowes2023
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby2023
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova2023
The New Life by Tom Crewe2023
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer2023
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan2023
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig2023
The Faraway World: Stories by Patricia Engel2023
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez2023
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann2023
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff2023
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad2023
This Other Eden by Paul Harding2023
Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham2023
Black AF History : the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael Harriot2023
Happy Place by Emily Henry2023
Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby2023
Loot by Tania James2023
Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc2023
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez2023
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people by Tracy Kidder2023
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher2023
Holly by Stephen King2023
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll2023
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus2023
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang2023
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut2023
Lone Women by Victor LaValle2023
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link2023
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason2023
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride2023
Absolution by Alice McDermott2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane2023
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina2023
The Quiet Tenant: A novel by Clemence Michallon2023
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray2023
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano2023
Girl Juice by Benji Nate2023
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez2023
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor2023
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell2023
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue2023
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie2023
The September House by Carissa Orlando2023
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul2023
Laura [1944 film] by Otto Preminger2023
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb2023
The Fraud by Zadie Smith2023
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon2023
Chlorine by Jade Song2023
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki2023
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle2023
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar2023
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs2023
Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea2023
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese2023
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead2023
Mister Magic by Kiersten White2023
In Memoriam by Alice Winn2023
After the Forest by Kell Woods2023
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo2023
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros2023
Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi2023
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine2023
Casey2023

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