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Best of the Best Adult Nonfiction - 2024

Check out our favorite books that were featured on best of 2024 lists from leading book review sources.

Glenview Public Library

27 items

  • The Small and the Mighty

    Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

    McMahon, Sharon, 1977-
    BookNew York : Thesis, [2024] — HOT PICKS HISTORY/CURRENT EVENTS
  • Nexus

    a Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

    Harari, Yuval N.,
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — 001.09 HAR
  • The Light Eaters

    How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

    Schlanger, Zoë,
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — HOT PICKS NONFICTION
  • BookNew York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024. — HOT PICKS NONFICTION
  • Burn Book

    a Tech Love Story

    Swisher, Kara,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — BIOGRAPHY SWISHER, K. SWI
  • Supercommunicators

    How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

    Duhigg, Charles,
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — 153.6 DUH
  • When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

    Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

    Satow, Julie,
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — HOT PICKS NONFICTION
  • Slow Productivity

    the Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

    Newport, Cal,
    Book[New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2024] — 331.118 NEW
  • Knife

    Meditations After An Attempted Murder

    Rushdie, Salman,
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — BIOGRAPHY RUSHDIE, S. RUS
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — BIOGRAPHY TAFFA, D. TAF
  • The Barn

    the Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

    Thompson, Wright,
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2024. — HOT PICKS NONFICTION
  • The Demon of Unrest

    a Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

    Larson, Erik, 1954-
    BookNew York : Crown, [2024] — 973.711 LAR
  • The Wide Wide Sea

    Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

    Sides, Hampton,
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — 910.92 SID