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

Paper Towns

by John Green
Ebook, 2009
Tags
fiction, young adult, 21st century, Florida, adolescence, teenagers
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
[Fic]

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk
Ebook, 2019
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
891.8/537

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

by Diana Gabaldon
Ebook, 2014
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Outlander (8)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

The Mirror & the Light

by Hilary Mantel
Ebook, 2020
Tags
historical fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Wolf Hall Trilogy (3)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

The Martian

by Andy Weir
Ebook, 2014
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
Mark Watney (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

The Secret Place

by Tana French
Ebook, 2015
Tags
fiction, mystery, police procedural, 21st century, Ireland, Dublin, Dublin Murder Squad, adolescence, boarding schools, secrets
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Series
Dublin Murder Squad (5)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.92

The Free

by Willy Vlautin
Ebook, 2014
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr
Ebook, 2014
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, 20th century, 1940s, France, Germany, World War II, kid-jep
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Dorothy Must Die

by Danielle Paige
Digital sound recording, 2014
Tags
fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, young adult, 20th century, American Midwest, Kansas, Oz
Collections
Read but unowned, Audiobooks, Read in 2018
Series
Dorothy Must Die (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell
Ebook, 2014
Tags
fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, 20th century, 21st century, England, Switzerland, New York City, immortality, mind games, multiple narrators
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2015
Series
Horologists (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

The silkworm

by Robert Galbraith
Ebook, 2014
Tags
fiction, mystery, 21st century, 2010s, England, London, Cormoran Strike, Robin Ellcott
Collection
Read but unowned
Series
Cormoran Strike (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel
Ebook, 2014
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813

Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Ebook, 2014
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, 21st century, American South, Alabama, criminal justice system, wrongful conviction, human rights, legal eagles
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
353.4/8092

Uprooted

by Naomi Novik
Ebook, 2015
Tags
fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, wizards, witches, magic, evil queens, badass women
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2017
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Ebook, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, 1915, World War I, war, submarines, ocean liners, Atlantic Ocean, messing about with boats
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2015
Status
Available
Call number
940.4/514

Epitaph

by Mary Doria Russell
Ebook, 2015
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, American West
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Doc Holliday (2)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Our Souls at Night

by Kent Haruf
Ebook, 2015
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Holt cycle (6)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Slade House

by David Mitchell
Ebook, 2015
Tags
fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, 20th century, 21st century, England, immortality, mind games, multiple narrators
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Series
Horologists (3)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ebook, 2015
Tags
nonfiction, 20th century, 21st century, America, Maryland, Baltimore, New York City, race relations, civil rights, uncomfortable truths
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
305.896073

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Ebook, 2015
Tags
fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
937

News of the World

by Paulette Jiles
Paperback, 2017
Tags
fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi
Ebook, 2016
Tags
18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, Africa, Ghana, America, Alabama, Mississippi, Harlem, slavery — 1 more, family saga
Collections
Your library, Read in 2023, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Grunt: The curious science of humans at war

by Mary Roach
Ebook, 2016
Tags
nonfiction, 21st century, science, military, human physiology
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2019
Status
Available
Call number
355/.070973

Brighton

by Michael T. Harvey
Ebook, 2016
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2021
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

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

by Rebecca Traister
Ebook, 2016
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
306.81/530973

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien
Ebook, 2016
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK AXIS 360

The Nix

by Nathan Hill
Ebook, 2016
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

The Dry

by Jane Harper
Ebook, 2017
Tags
fiction, 21st century, Australia, Victoria, Kiewara, Aaron Falk, murderous husbands, murders old and new, past isn't past
Collections
Your library, Read in 2023, eBooks, Read in 2018
Series
Aaron Falk (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.92

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead
Ebook, 2016
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813/.54

The Arm: Inside the billion-dollar mystery of the most valuable commodity in sports

by Jeff Passan
Ebook, 2016
Tags
nonfiction, sports, 21st century, baseball, medical
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2016
Status
Available
Call number
796.3576

The Trespasser

by Tana French
Ebook, 2016
Tags
fiction, mystery, 21st century, Ireland, Dublin Murder Squad, Antoinette Conway, Stephen Moran, crooked cops
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Series
Dublin Murder Squad (6)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.92

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Ebook, 2015
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Autumn

by Ali Smith
Ebook, 2017
Tags
fiction, 21st century, England, chosen families, Brexit, art, hope, platonic love
Collections
Your library, eBooks, 5-star books, Read in 2018
Series
Seasonal (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles
Ebook, 2016
Tags
20th century, Russia, Moscow, Bolsheviks, house arrest, aristocracy
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2022
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK OVERDRIVE

The Mothers

by Brit Bennett
Ebook, 2016
Tags
contemporary fiction, 21st century, American West, California, motherless daughters, pregnancy, secrets, church scandals, friendship
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813

Days Without End

by Sebastian Barry
Ebook, 2017
Tags
fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
McNulty Family (6)
Status
Available
Call number
EBOOK OVERDRIVE

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

by David Grann
Ebook, 2016
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
976.6004/975254

Magpie Murders

by Anthony Horowitz
Ebook, 2017
Tags
fiction, mystery, 20th century, 1955, England, Atticus Pünd, murder, story-within-a-story
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2017
Series
Susan Ryeland (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

The Radium Girls: The dark story of America's shining women

by Kate Moore
Ebook, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, history, 20th century, New Jersey, Illinois, science, health, working class, corporate evildoers
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
363.17/990820973

Word by Word: The secret life of dictionaries

by Kory Stamper
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
nonfiction
Collections
Your library, 5-star books, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
413.028

The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn
Ebook, 2017
Tags
historical fiction, 1910s, 1940s, 1950s, England, France, World War I, World War II, espionage
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ebook, 2017
Tags
literary fiction, 20th century, America, Hollywood, movie stars, journalists, secrets, LGBT, bisexuality
Collections
Your library, eBooks, Read in 2020
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Grant

by Ron Chernow
Ebook, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, biography
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
973.8/2092B

Young Jane Young

by Gabrielle Zevin
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
fiction
Collection
Your library
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Manhattan Beach

by Jennifer Egan
Ebook, 2017
Tags
fiction, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, New York City, Brooklyn, Great Depression, longshoreman, unions, corruption, criminal gangs — 2 more, fathers and daughters, messing about with boats
Collections
Read but unowned, Read in 2018
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

A Legacy of Spies

by John Le Carré
Ebook, 2017
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
George Smiley (9)
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

The Last Ballad

by Wiley Cash
Ebook, 2017
Tags
fiction, historical fiction
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

The Word is Murder

by Anthony Horowitz
Ebook, 2018
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Hawthorne & Horowitz (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813

Code Girls: The untold story of the American women code breakers who helped win World War II

by Liza Mundy
Ebook, 2017
Tags
nonfiction, history
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Status
Available
Call number
940.54/86730922

Bluebird, Bluebird

by Attica Locke
Ebook, 2017
Tags
mystery
Collections
Your library, eBooks
Series
Highway 59 (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6
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