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

Chicago Tribune: 10 Best Books of 2017

17 December 2017

The Chicago Tribune: 10 Best Books of 2017

Fiction

  1. Stay with Me
    Ayobami Adebayo
  2. Electric Arches
    Eve L. Ewing
  3. Her Body and Other Parties
    Carmen Maria Machado
  4. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  5. Autumn
    Ali Smith

Nonfiction

  1. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
    Hanif Abdurraqib
  2. The Future Is History
    How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
    Masha Gessen
  3. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
    Samantha Irby
  4. Priestdaddy
    Patricia Lockwood
  5. Tenements, Towers & Trash
    An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
    Julia Wertz

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