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Chicago Public Library: Check Your Goodreads & StoryGraph TBR on Libby

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Popular Books Checked by Chicago Public Library Readers

Frequently checked Want-to-Read titles across Chicago Public Library’s Libby digital catalog. Book cover art and descriptions provided via Open Library.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

eBook · Audiobook

Spanning thirty years from Cambridge to California, two childhood friends reunite in college to build groundbreaking video games and navigate creative partnership, ambition, and loss.

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Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune

Frank Herbert

eBook · Audiobook

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides is thrust into an interstellar struggle over control of melange, the most valuable substance in the universe.

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

eBook · Audiobook

Reclusive Old Hollywood film icon Evelyn Hugo chooses an unknown magazine reporter to write her biography, recounting her career, secrets, and seven marriages.

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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

eBook · Audiobook

A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother to cancer, and reconnecting with family heritage through food and music.

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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

eBook · Audiobook

Botanist and Citizen Potawatomi Nation member Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves Indigenous ecological knowledge with plant science to explore our reciprocal relationship with the natural world.

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

eBook · Audiobook

A modern reimagining of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, following a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer.

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