Posted by Amanda on Friday, Dec 29, 2017
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
About the Author
Amanda is a former ICPL staff member.