Best of the Best 2017: Non-Fiction

ICPL BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2017

Our favorite non-fiction books this year are very eclectic! Whether you’re interested in American politics, understanding your mind better, feminism, or world history, we’ve got you covered. A lot of these books deal with overcoming extreme adversity, and would make great winter reads!

• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg
• Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
• Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
• Women and the Land by Barbara Hall
• Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves by Kate T. Parker
• Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 by Helen Rappaport
• The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) by Gretchen Rubin