Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: AdultsSelectionNonfiction2014

Given by Chicago Public Library

Other Names: Chicago Public Library Adults Best of the Best Books
31 Works 46,226 Books 1,877 Reviews 4.1

"Each year, a team of CPL librarians evaluates the year’s new books and selects the best books for Chicago's adults."

Stages:
All, Selection (1,179), Top Ten (90), Top 20 (20)
Categories:
All, Nonfiction (31)
Years:
All, 2015 (16), 2014 (31)

Selection 31

WorkYear
Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz2014
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird2014
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow2014
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham2014
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande2014
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald2014
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris2014
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs2014
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson2014
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison2014
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson2014
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson2014
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein2014
I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway by Greg Kot2014
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans by Gary Krist2014
Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby2014
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis2014
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau2014
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre2014
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe2014
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein2014
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides2014
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark2014
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson2014
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar2014

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