CHF Books

Browse the list of spring presenters' featured books at the bottom of this page, find further information on book-related events below, and discover expanded reading lists for select events. Find tickets and more information here. Please note that, for most of the events below, you may purchase the featured book at a 20% discount along with your ticket on the CHF website. All book sales through the CHF website are fulfilled by the Co-op, and you can find us providing on-site book sales at all of these events, too!

SOLD OUT: James Comey: Higher Loyalty | Friday, April 20 | 7 - 8 PM | Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Read along: A Higher Loyalty

An Evening with Errol Morris | Tuesday, April 24 | 7:00p - 8:00p | Music Box Theatre

Read along: The Ashtray + further reading

Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects | Saturday, April 28 | 10:30a - 11:30a | Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theatre

Read along: Sharp Objects + further reading

Russian Roulette: Inside Putin's War on America | Saturday, April 28 | 11:00a - 12:00p | First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple

Read along: Russian Roulette + further reading

Graphic Novels and Identity | Saturday, April 28 | 1:00p - 2:00p | Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theatre

Read along: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

What's In an Inkblot? | Saturday, April 28 | 1:00p - 2:00p | Columbia College Chicago, The Dance Center

Read along: The Inkblots + further reading

Art and Data | Saturday, April 28 | 3:00p - 4:00p | Venue SIX10

Read along: Dear Data

Bachelor Nation: Our Obession with Reality TV | Saturday, April 28 | 3:00p - 4:00p | Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theatre

Read along: Bachelor Nation

How Democracies Die | Saturday, April 28 | 3:00p - 4:00p | First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple

Read along: How Democracies Die + further reading

Where's the Remote? | Saturday, April 28 | 5:00p - 6:00p | First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple

Read along: Remote Control + further reading

Molly Crabapple: Drawing Blood | Saturday, April 28 | 5:00p - 6:00p | Venue SIX10

Read along: Drawing Blood

How Does Storytelling Shape Design? | Saturday, April 28 | 5:00p - 6:00p | Columbia College Chicago, The Dance Center

Read along: Design is Storytelling + further reading

Ai Weiwei on Humanity In Conversation with Ian Buruma | Sunday, April 29 | 12:00p - 1:00p | Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Read along: Humanity + further reading

Unflattening: Thinking Through Images | Sunday, April 29 | 2:00p - 3:00p | School of the Art Institute, Ballroom

Read along: Unflattening

Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give | Sunday, April 29 | 2:00p - 3:00p, Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theater / The Hate U Give

Questlove: Creative Quest | Sunday, April 29 | 4:00p - 5:00p | Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Read along: Creative Quest + further reading

War and What Comes After: A Conversation with Clemantine Wamariya | Sunday, April 29 | 4:00p - 5:00p |Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theatre

Read along: The Girl Who Smiled Beads

Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel | Sunday, April 29 | 4:00p - 5:00p | School of the Art Institute, Ballroom

Reading along: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel + further reading

The Places of American Memory | Sunday, April 29 | 4:00p - 5:00p | Chicago Athletic Association

Read along: Marked, Unmarked, Remembered + further reading

Covering #MeToo | Sunday, April 29 | 6:00p - 7:00p | Fine Arts Building, Studebaker Theatre

Read along: Eloquent Rage

Hanif Abdurraqib: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us | Sunday, April 29 | 6:00p - 7:00p | Chicago Athletic Association

Read along: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kills Us + further reading

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Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership

Custom text: Hardcover | $29.99 | 9781250192455

The Ashtray

By: Morris, Errol

Custom text: Hardcover | $30.00 | 9780226922683

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result.

At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary...

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

By: Bergen, Benjamin K

Custom text: Hardcover | $27.99 | 9780465060917

It may be starred, beeped, and censored--yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.
Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks...

Sharp Objects

By: Flynn, Gillian

Custom text: Paperback | $16.00 | 9780307341556

NOW AN HBO(R) LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter...

Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump

By: Corn, David

Custom text: Hardcover | $30.00 | 9781538728758

The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency.

"Russian Roulette is...the most thorough and riveting account." -- The New York Times...

The Best We Could Do : An Illustrated Memoir

By: Bui, Thi

Custom text: Paperback | $18.99 | 9781419718786

National bestseller
2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist
ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection
Barnes...

The Inkblots

By: Searls, Damion

Custom text: Paperback | $17.00 | 9780804136563

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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - New York Post - Sunday Times (UK) - Irish Independent
In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann...

How Democracies Die

By: Ziblatt, Daniel

Custom text: Hardcover | $26.00 | 9781524762933

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A brilliant book, wise and nuanced."
--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
"Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely."
--New York Times Book Review
"Cool and persuasive... How...

Bachelor Nation : Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

By: Kaufman, Amy

Custom text: Hardcover | $25.00 | 9781101985908

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*A New York Times Bestseller*
The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America's favorite guilty pleasure
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For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV...

Dear Data

By: Posavec, Stefanie

Custom text: Paperback | $35.00 | 9781616895327

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Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For...

The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

By: Merchant, Brian

Custom text: Hardcover | $28.00 | 9780316546164

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The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
One of the Best Business Books of...

Remote Control

By: Benson-Allott, Caetlin

Custom text: Paperback | $14.95 | 9781623563110

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and...

Drawing Blood

By: Crabapple, Molly

Custom text: Hardcover | $17.99 | 9780062797223

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Design Is Storytelling

By: Lupton, Ellen

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Ellen Lupton, award-winning author of Thinking with Type and How Posters Work, demonstrates how storytelling shapes great design
Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest book from award-winning writer Ellen Lupton is a playbook...

Humanity.

By: Ai, Weiwei

Custom text: Hardcover | $12.95 | 9780691181523

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Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-...

Unflattening

By: Sousanis, Nick

Custom text: Paperback | $22.95 | 9780674744431

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The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly...

The Hate U Give

By: Thomas, Angie

Custom text: Hardcover | $18.99 | 9780062498533

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8 starred reviews ∙ Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller!
"Absolutely...

Creative Quest

By: Questlove

Custom text: Hardcover | $27.99 | 9780062670557

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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire - PopSugar - The Huffington Post - Buzzfeed - Publishers Weekly
A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove--inspirations, stories, and lessons on how...

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

By: Weil, Elizabeth

Custom text: Hardcover | $26.00 | 9780451495327

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale."

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to...

Marked, Unmarked, Remembered : A Geography of American Memory

By: Lichtenstein, Alex

Custom text: Paperback | $34.99 | 9781943665891

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From Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the...