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Best Books of 2017

Chicago Public Library recommends these titles as the best books published in 2017.

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  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — GV1132.A44E427 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — FIC QUINN
  • Alone

    Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat Into Victory

    Korda, Michael, 1933-
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] — D756.5.D8K67 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. — FICTION
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] — QB461.T97 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2017] — FICTION
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Del Rey, [2017] — FICTION
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackNew York : Atria Books, 2017. — FICTION
  • Becoming Ms. Burton

    From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

    Burton, Susan,
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackNew York : The New Press, [2017] — HV9468.B87B87 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. — HV6465.M7T97 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — FICTION
  • Body Horror

    Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

    Moore, Anne Elizabeth,
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackChicago, Illinois : Curbside Splendor, [2017] — RA564.85.M65 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — FICTION
  • The Bright Hour

    a Memoir of Living and Dying

    Riggs, Nina,
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. — RC280.B8R5355 2017
  • Bunk

    the Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-facts, and Fake News

    Young, Kevin, 1970-
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017] — HV6691.Y674 2017
  • Cannibalism

    a Perfectly Natural History

    Schutt, Bill,
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017. — GN409.S38 2017
  • Caroline

    Little House, Revisited

    Miller, Sarah, 1979-
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — FICTION
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    PaperbackNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2017] — PS3515.I713Z635 2017
  • Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — FICTION
  • Code Girls

    the Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

    Mundy, Liza, 1960-
    Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the best books published in 2017.
    BookNew York : Hachette Books, 2017. — D810.C88M86 2017