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

The Iliad

by Homer
Hardcover, 1990
Tags
folio society, myths and legends, classic novels, greek
Collections
Classic Novels, Myths, Legends & Folklore, Folio Society books
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Status
Available
Call number
883.01

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1: The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
@signed, @remarqued, @inscribed (other), children, middle grade, greek mythology, myths and legends, adventure, fiction, fantasy
Collections
Children's Lit & Picture Books, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Myths, Legends & Folklore, Mlb to donate
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

by Rick Riordan
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
@signed, children, middle grade, greek mythology, myths and legends, adventure, fiction, fantasy
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Myths, Legends & Folklore
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Lightning Thief Deluxe Edition (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

by Rick Riordan
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
@signed, children, middle grade, greek mythology, myths and legends, adventure, fiction, fantasy
Collections
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beautiful Books
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (B&N Exclusive 10th Anniversary Edition)

by Rick Riordan
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
children, middle grade, greek mythology, myths and legends, adventure, fiction, fantasy, @undercovers
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Illustrated Book 1: The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
children, middle grade, greek mythology, myths and legends, adventure, fiction, fantasy, illustrated
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Paper towns

by John Green
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
@signed, @personalised, young adult, fiction, missing persons, realistic fiction, @bookclub
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Mystery, Detective & Crime
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

by Jacqueline Kelly
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
fiction, children, middle grade, evolution, historical fiction, family & relationships
Collection
Middle Grade & Teens
Series
Calpurnia Tate (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Flavia De Luce, Book 6: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

by Alan Bradley
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
@signed, fiction, young adult, mystery and detective, cozy mystery, literary mystery, child genius
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Mystery, Detective & Crime
Series
Flavia de Luce (6)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Martian: A Novel

by Andy Weir
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, science fiction, space, mars, favourite
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Mark Watney (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Martian

by Andy Weir
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
@signed, @limited, fiction, science fiction, space, mars
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Mark Watney (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

by Leslye Walton
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, family & relationships, young adult
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Cinder Spires, Book 1: The Aeronaut's Windlass

by Jim Butcher
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, fantasy, magic, steampunk
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
The Cinder Spires (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Panic

by Lauren Oliver
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, young adult, thriller, realistic fiction
Collections
Digital Library, Middle Grade & Teens
Series
Panic (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

We Were Liars

by E. Lockhart
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, young adult
Collections
Digital Library, Middle Grade & Teens
Series
We Were Liars (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel (Vintage International)

by Haruki Murakami
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, friendship, japanese literature, magical realism
Collections
Digital Library, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
895.63

Red Rising

by Pierce Brown
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, science fiction, dystopia, mars, young adult
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Red Rising Saga (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dept. of Speculation

by Jenny Offill
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, relationships
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

The Queen Of The Tearling

by Erika Johansen
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, fantasy, magic, high fantasy, princesses
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Queen of the Tearling (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Young Elites

by Marie Lu
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, fantasy, high fantasy, young adult
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
The Young Elites (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dresden Files, Book 15: Skin Game [Signed Edition]

by Jim Butcher
Multimedia, 2014, May
Tags
@signed, fiction, fantasy, magic, wizards, urban fantasy
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
The Dresden Files (15)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Skin Game [Subterranean Press]

by Jim Butcher
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
@signed, @limited, fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, magic, subterranean press
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
The Dresden Files (15)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Escape (Survivors' Club)

by Mary Balogh
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, romance, historical fiction
Collections
Digital Library, Romance & Sundry Amusements
Series
The Survivors' Club (3)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The One Plus One

by Jojo Moyes
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, romance, road trip
Collections
Digital Library, Romance & Sundry Amusements
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

The Girl with All the Gifts

by M. R. Carey
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, science fiction, zombies
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Hungry Plague (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, historical, war, @bookclub
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, history
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
909

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, climate change, environment, science, natural history
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
576.8

Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future

by John Scalzi
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, science fiction, mystery, virtual reality
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Lock In (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dorothy Must Die

by Danielle Paige
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
@signed, fiction, fantasy, young adult, wizard of oz, fractured fairy tales, @undercovers
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Dorothy Must Die (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

City on Fire: A novel

by Garth Risk Hallberg
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, american literature, historical fiction, new york, @undercovers
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
fiction, science fiction, immortality, england, dystopia, @endpapers
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Horologists (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Bad Feminist: Essays

by Roxane Gay
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, non-fiction, essays, feminism, pop culture
Collections
Digital Library, Non-fiction & Reference
Status
Available
Call number
814.6

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook
Collections
Digital Library, Romance & Sundry Amusements
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Cormoran Strike, Book 2: The Silkworm

by Robert Galbraith
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
@signed, fiction, crime, detective, mystery, noir
Collection
Mystery, Detective & Crime
Series
Cormoran Strike (2)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
@signed, @limited, fiction, science fiction, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, shakespeare
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
non-fiction, science, essays, humour
Collections
Popular Science, Non-fiction & Reference
Series
What if? (1)
Status
Available
Call number
500

The Peripheral

by William Gibson
Ebook, 2014
Tags
@ebook, fiction, science fiction, time travel, post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, near future
Collections
Digital Library, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
The Jackpot Trilogy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

A Darker Shade of Magic

by V. E. Schwab
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, fantasy, alternate worlds, magic, young adult, thieves and rogues
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Shades of Magic (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

A Darker Shade of Magic: Collector's Edition

by V. E. Schwab
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
fiction, fantasy, alternate worlds, magic, young adult, thieves and rogues, @mapped, @undercovers
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Shades of Magic (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Us

by David Nicholls
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
@signed, fiction, realistic fiction, family, @bookclub
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

An Ember in the Ashes [Goldsboro Exclusive]

by Sabaa Tahir
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
@signed, fiction, young adult, fantasy, high fantasy
Collections
Middle Grade & Teens, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
An Ember in the Ashes (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Wrath and the Dawn

by Renee Ahdieh
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, fantasy, high fantasy, magic, romance, young adult, fairy tales retold, arabian nights, @endpapers
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Wrath and the Dawn (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Uprooted

by Naomi Novik
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, fantasy, high fantasy, dragons, fairy tales, magic, baba yaga, fairy tale retelling, myths and legends as fiction
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Sellout

by Paul Beatty
Ebook, 2016
Tags
@ebook
Collections
Digital Library, General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Church of Marvels

by Leslie Parry
Paperback, 2015
Tags
fiction, historical fiction, @bookclub
Collection
General Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
non-fiction, essays, science
Collection
Popular Science
Status
Available
Call number
530

Invisible Library, Book 1: The Invisible Library

by Genevieve Cogman
Paperback, 2015
Tags
fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, libraries, magic, steampunk, dragons, fae, alternate worlds
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Invisible Library (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Illuminae Files, Book 1: Illuminae

by Amie Kaufman
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, science fiction, young adult, future history, @undercovers, @steganography
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
The Illuminae Files (1)
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Slade House

by David Mitchell
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
fiction, fantasy, ghosts, england, horror, immortality, @undercovers
Collection
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Series
Horologists (3)
Status
Available
Call number
823.914
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