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2017 Books

Hello Giggles: Gina Vaynshteyn: 27 Best Books of 2017

20 January 2018

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Gina Vaynshteyn: 27 Best Books of 2017, as published by Hello Giggles

  1. Little Fires Everywhere
    Celeste Ng
  2. The Hate U Give
    Angie Thomas
  3. The Idiot
    Elif Batuman
  4. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy
  5. Forest Dark
    Nicole Krauss
  6. Exit West
    Mohsin Hamid
  7. Difficult Women
    Roxane Gay
  8. Sour Heart
    Jenny Zhang
  9. Like a Beast
    Carly Joy Miller
  10. Stay with Me
    Ayobami Adebayo
  11. Rabbit Cake
    Annie Hartnett
  12. How to Murder Your Life
    Cat Marnell
  13. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
    Samantha Irby
  14. Priestdaddy
    Patricia Lockwood
  15. Weird in a World That’s Not
    A Career Guide for Misfits
    Jennifer Romolini
  16. Startup
    Doree Shafrir
  17. Woman No. 17
    Edan Lepucki
  18. All the Lives I Want
    Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
    Alana Massey
  19. A Separation
    Katie Kitamura
  20. Things That Happened Before the Earthquake
    Chiara Barzini
  21. Eat Only When You’re Hungry
    Lindsay Hunter
  22. Spineless
    The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
    Juli Berwald
  23. New People
    Danzy Senna
  24. The Bright Hour
    A Memoir of Living and Dying
    Nina Riggs
  25. Touch
    Courtney Maum
  26. Pachinko
    Min Jin Lee
  27. Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Jesmyn Ward

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