Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2017 Books

Time: Top 20 Books of 2017

10 December 2017

Time Magazine: Best Fiction and Nonfiction Books of 2017

[see also The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 • The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 • Best Books of 2018]

Fiction

  1. Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Jesmyn Ward
  2. White Tears
    Hari Kunzru
  3. Transit
    Rachel Cusk
  4. Manhattan Beach
    Jennifer Egan
  5. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  6. Exit West
    Mohsin Hamid
  7. The Changeling
    Victor LaValle
  8. The Ninth Hour
    Alice McDermott
  9. Days Without End
    Sebastian Barry
  10. New People
    Danzy Senna

Nonfiction

  1. What Happened
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
  2. We Were Eight Years in Power
    An American Tragedy
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon
    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    David Grann
  4. Homo Deus
    A Brief History of Tomorrow
    Yuval Harari
  5. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy
  6. Hunger
    A Memoir of (My) Body
    Roxane Gay
  7. Blind Spot
    Teju Cole
  8. The Meaning of Michelle
    16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
    Veronica Chambers
  9. The Evangelicals
    The Struggle to Shape America
    Frances FitzGerald
  10. The Vanity Fair Diaries
    1983 – 1992
    Tina Brown

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