We’ve got 15 books on Chicago Public Library’s “Best of the Best Books 2017” list! Selected by a team of CPL librarians, the list represents the year’s most outstanding titles, books of exceptional quality for a diverse, city-wide readership.
Fiction
BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer
THE DRY by Jane Harper
GOOD ME, BAD ME by Ali Land
GRIEF COTTAGE by Gail Godwin
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK by Kathleen Rooney
THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott
SOURDOUGH by Robin Sloan
THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel
Nonfiction
BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
NOTES ON A FOREIGN COUNTRY: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
TEARS WE CANNOT STOP: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Graphic Novel
HOSTAGE by Guy Delisle
Teen Fiction
I HATE EVERYONE BUT YOU by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin
See these and many more titles in Macmillan’s Best Books of 2017 Edelweiss collection. We’ll update it as more “Best of 2017” lists come in. #CollectionDevelopmentMadeEasy
