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
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I'm currently getting my Master's in Library Science from the University of Iowa. I love dogs, other fluffy animals, reading, playing piano, Parks and Rec, and drinking tea.
Sunny is a young witch just coming into her power in Nigeria. This book is even better than the first book in the series, Akata Witch, because now Sunny is comfortable among the Leopard People (witches and wizards) and doesn't have to learn the basics of her new world. Now, she gets to spend more time doing serious, amazing magic. I can't wait for the 3rd book! -Amanda