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Best Books of 2016

Chicago Public Library recommends these titles as the best books published in 2016.

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  • All the Single Ladies

    Unmarried Women and the Rise of An Independent Nation

    Traister, Rebecca,
    Book, 2016New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. — HQ880.4.U6T73 2016
  • American Heiress

    the Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

    Toobin, Jeffrey,
    Book, 2016New York : Doubleday, [2016] — F866.4.H42T66 2016
  • Book, 2016New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — FICTION
  • The Arm

    Inside the Billion-dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

    Passan, Jeff,
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
  • At the Existentialist Café

    Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails With Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

    Bakewell, Sarah, 1963-
    Book, 2016New York : Other Press, [2016] — B819.B313 2016
  • Book, 2016New York : Scribner, 2016. — FICTION
  • Book, 2016New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. — FICTION
  • Book, 2016New York : Random House, [2016] — FICTION
  • Bellevue

    Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

    Oshinsky, David M., 1944-
    Book, 2016New York : Doubleday, [2016] — RA982.N5B54 2016
  • Blood at the Root

    a Racial Cleansing in America

    Phillips, Patrick, 1970-
    Book, 2016New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] — F292.F67P47 2016
  • Book, 2016New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. — ML420.S77A3 2016
  • Book, 2016New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — FICTION
  • Paperback, 2016New York : Harper, [2016] — FIC PATCHETT
  • Paperback, 2016New York : Crown Publishing, [2016] — FIC CROUCH
  • Dark Money

    the Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

    Mayer, Jane
    Book, 2016New York : Doubleday, [2016] — JC599.U5M373 2016
  • Book, 2016New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2016.