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!
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
Read along: Sharp Objects + further reading
Read along: Russian Roulette + further reading
Read along: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Read along: The Inkblots + further reading
Art and Data | Saturday, April 28 | 3:00p - 4:00p | Venue SIX10
Read along: Dear Data
Read along: Bachelor Nation
Read along: How Democracies Die + further reading
Read along: Remote Control + further reading
Molly Crabapple: Drawing Blood | Saturday, April 28 | 5:00p - 6:00p | Venue SIX10
Read along: Drawing Blood
Read along: Design is Storytelling + further reading
Read along: Humanity + further reading
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
Read along: The Girl Who Smiled Beads
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
Read along: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kills Us + further reading
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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...
Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks...
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"RUSSIAN ROULETTE is...the most thorough and riveting account." --The New York Times
The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of...
2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist
ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection
Barnes...
A New York Post Best Book of the Year
A Times Thought Book of the Year
An Irish Independent Best Book of the Year The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917,...
--New York Times Book Review "Cool and persuasive... How Democracies Die comes at exactly the right moment."
--The Washington Post...
NATIONAL BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
One of the Best Business Books of...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
8 starred reviews ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller!
"Absolutely riveting!" --Jason Reynolds
"Stunning." --John Green...
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...
