Awards search:Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults

The Seer of Shadows

by Avi
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Kids Fiction
Status
Available

Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places (Scientists in the Field Series)

by Donna M. Jackson
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Younger Readers Biographies, Environment
Series
Scientists in the Field
Status
Available

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

by Lena Dunham
Hardcover, 2014
Status
Available

The Invention of Wings

by Sue Monk Kidd
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Historical Fiction, Sarah Grimke, Slavery, Suffragettes
Status
Available

MISSING - Bad Feminist: Essays

by Roxane Gay
Paperback, 2014
Tags
MISSING, Biography, LGBTQ, Race, Juneteenth, Black History, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Checked out
Due Jul 1, 2022

Bad Feminist: Essays

by Roxane Gay
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Biography, LGBTQ, Race, Juneteenth, Black History, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway

by Greg Kot
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Biography, Music, Black History, Juneteenth, Activists
Status
Available

Leaving Time: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult
Paperback, 2015
Series
Serenity Jones (1)
Status
Available

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

The Nightingale: A Novel

by Kristin Hannah
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

by Marilyn Johnson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Expert Gals, Archaeology, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

by Marilyn Johnson
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Expert Gals, Archaeology, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

In the Unlikely Event

by Judy Blume
Paperback, 2017
Status
Available

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

by Sally Mann
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Photography
Status
Available

Negroland: A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Black History, Advancing Racial Equity Collection, Juneteenth
Status
Available

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

by Jenny Lawson
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Comedy
Status
Available

Furiously Happy

by Jenny Lawson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Biography
Status
Available

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

by Sandra Cisneros
Hardcover, 2015
Status
Available

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

by Carrie Brownstein
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Music
Status
Available

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

by Patricia Bell-Scott
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Multiple Gals, First Ladies, LGBTQ
Status
Available

MISSING - The Girls: A Novel

by Emma Cline
Ebook, 2016
Tags
MISSING
Status
Checked out
Due Jul 30, 2022

Lilac Girls: A Novel

by Martha Hall Kelly
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Fiction
Series
Lilac Girls (1)
Status
Checked out
Due Mar 26, 2024

Lab Girl

by Hope Jahren
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Biography, Environment, Working Women
Status
Available

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Fiction, Malala's Book Club, Africa
Status
Available

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War [UK Import]

by Mary Roach
Paperback, 2017
Tags
War
Status
Available

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

by Rebecca Traister
Hardcover, 2016
Status
Available

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

by Roxane Gay
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Biography, LGBTQ
Status
Available

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

by Nathalia Holt
Hardcover, 2016
Status
Available

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Multiple Gals, NASA, STEM, Black History, Juneteenth, Math, Computers, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Working Women
Status
Checked out
Due May 18, 2024

MISSING - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Multiple Gals, NASA, STEM, Black History, Juneteenth, Math, Computers, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Working Women
Status
Checked out
Due Aug 25, 2023

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Black History, Advancing Racial Equity Collection, Juneteenth
Status
Available

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

by Jeffrey Toobin
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Scary
Status
Available

Difficult Women

by Roxane Gay
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Biography, Black History, Juneteenth, LGBTQ, Author
Status
Available

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Scary
Status
Available

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore
Hardcover, 2017
Status
Available

Alice Network, The

by Kate Quinn
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

The Alice Network: A Reese's Book Club Pick

by Kate Quinn
Paperback, 2017
Status
Available

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

by Celeste Ng
Paperback, 2019
Tags
fiction, Cleveland, Ohio, Artist
Status
Available

Home Fire: A Novel

by Kamila Shamsie
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Fiction, Malala's Book Club
Status
Checked out
Due Mar 29, 2024

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

by Laura Shapiro
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Multiple Gals, Food
Status
Available

Manhattan Beach: A Novel

by Jennifer Egan
Paperback, 2018
Status
Available

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

by Susan Burton
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Biography, Black History, Juneteenth, Activists
Status
Available

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Biography, North Dakota, California, Texas, RV
Status
Available

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
War
Status
Available

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

by Tayari Jones
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Fiction
Status
Available

Circe

by Madeline Miller
Paperback, 2020
Status
Available

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

by Morgan Jerkins
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Biography, Race, Racism, Black History, Juneteenth, BlackGirlMagic
Status
Available

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

by Elaine Weiss
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Suffrage, Vote, 19th Amendment, Activists, Gal's Guide Book Club
Status
Available

Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover
Hardcover, 2018
Status
Available
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