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CPL 150: Books We Love

Celebrate Chicago Public Library's 150th anniversary in 2023 with some of our favorite books for adults.

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  • Angels in America

    a Gay Fantasia on National Themes

    Kushner, Tony
    PaperbackNew York : Theatre Communications Group, 2013. — PS3561.U778A85 2013
  • The Boys in the Boat

    Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
    PaperbackNew York : Penguin Books, 2014. — GV796.B76 2014
  • PaperbackNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — FICTION
  • The Devil in the White City

    Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

    Larson, Erik
    PaperbackNew York : Vintage Books, 2004, c2003. — HV6248.M8L37 2004
  • BookNew York : Random House, [2018] — CT3262.I2W47 2018
  • Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

    Desmond, Matthew,
    PaperbackNew York : Crown Publishers, [2016] — HD7287.96.U6D47 2016
  • PaperbackBoston : A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2007] — PN6727.B3757Z46 2006
  • Hamnet

    a Novel of the Plague

    O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
    PaperbackNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — FIC OFARRELL
  • Heavy

    An American Memoir

    Laymon, Kiese,
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2018. — E185.97.L394A3 2018
  • PaperbackNew York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books : Random House, Inc., 2009. — FIC CISNEROS