Chicago Public Library’s 2021 Best of the Best

A team of Chicago Public Librarians have picked their best books of 2021, and 20 Macmillan titles are on the list!

FOR ADULTS

BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU by Sally Rooney
CHASING ME TO MY GRAVE by Winfred Rembert
THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL by Nghi Vo
THE ECHO WIFE by Sarah Gailey
GIRLHOOD by Melissa Febos
THE HOSPITAL by Brian Alexander
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by Catriona Ward
A MASTER OF DJINN by P. Djèlí Clark
MY MONTICELLO by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston
OUTLAWED by Anna North
RAZORBLADE TEARS by S. A. Cosby
SECOND PLACE by Rachel Cusk
SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by Shelley Parker-Chan
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER by Ashley C. Ford
SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon
THE TREES by Percival Everett
THE TWILIGHT ZONE by Nona Fernández
THE WAITING by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

FOR TEENS

SLINGSHOT by Mercedes Helnwein