Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults2022

Given by Chicago Public Library

Other Names: Chicago Public Library Adults Best of the Best Books
99 Works 59,655 Books 2,500 Reviews ½ 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:
Years:
All, 2023 (329), 2022 (99), 2021 (99), 2020 (99), 2019 (100), 2018 (99), 2017 (101), 2016 (79), 2015 (62), 2014 (103), 2010 (1), 2008 (1), 2005 (2), 1998 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent

Selection 99

WorkYear
Jackal by Erin E. Adams2022
Yonder by Jabari Asim2022
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill2022
Either/Or by Elif Batuman2022
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton2022
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett2022
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo2022
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir by Keri Blakinger2022
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom2022
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham2022
A Proposal They Can't Refuse by Natalie Caña2022
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas2022
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun2022
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan2022
The art of prophecy : a novel by Wesley Chu2022
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones2022
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark2022
Devil House by John Darnielle2022
Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis2022
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont2022
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk2022
Trust by Hernan Diaz2022
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan2022
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery2022
Dr No by Percival Everett2022
The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas Fisher2022
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo2022
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler2022
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu2022
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge2022
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross2022
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty2022
Afterlives: A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah2022
Book Lovers by Emily Henry2022
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild2022
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah2022
The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran2022
Stay True by Hua Hsu2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson2022
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas2022
The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones2022
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher2022
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver2022
Grey Bees by Andrej Kurkow2022
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limón2022
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li2022
Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma2022
Cost of Living: Essays by Emily Maloney2022
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel2022
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken2022
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor2022
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet2022
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia2022
Tasha: A Son's Memoir by Brian Morton2022
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi2022
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott2022
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng2022
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik2022
True Biz by Sara Novic2022
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'Brien2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke2022
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole2022
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka2022
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks2022
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen2022
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence2022
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn2022
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras2022
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino2022
Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders2022
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz2022
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell2022
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb2022
Companion Piece by Ali Smith2022
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sánchez2022
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner2022
The Village Idiot by Steve Stern2022
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens2022
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub2022
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow2022
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart2022
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty2022
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan2022
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada2022
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews2022
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher2022
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk2022
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa2022
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo2022
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong2022
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell2022
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson2022
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson2022
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong2022
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin2022

Top Ten 10

WorkYear
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez2022
Stay True by Hua Hsu2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson2022
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver2022
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke2022
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong2022
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin2022

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