Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 31 Best Fiction Books of 2017

[see also 2021 • 2020]

• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Reservoir 13
  Jon McGregor
• H(A)PPY
  Nicola Barker
• House of Names
  Colm Tóibín
• Mrs. Osmond
  John Banville
• The Golden House
  Salman Rushdie
• The Sparsholt Affair
  Alan Hollinghurst
• Manhattan Beach
  Jennifer Egan
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  Arundhati Roy
• Birdcage Walk
  Helen Dunmore
• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie
• Dunbar
  Edward St. Aubyn
• We That Are Young
  Preti Taneja
• When I Hit You or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
  Meena Kandasamy
• The End of Eddy
  Édouard Louis
• First Love
  Gwendoline Riley
• Fever Dream
  Samanta Schweblin
• Such Small Hands
  Andrés Barba
• Flights
  Olga Tokarczuk
• The Lie of the Land
  Amanda Craig
• Homegoing
  Yaa Gyasi
• My Absolute Darling
  Gabriel Tallent
• Conversations with Friends
  Sally Rooney
• Spoils
  Brian Van Reet
• The President’s Gardens
  Muhsin Al-Ramli
• Madame Zero

  9 Stories
  Sarah Hall
• Room Little Darker
  June Caldwell
• Attrib. and other stories
  Eley Williams
• Midwinter Break
  Bernard MacLaverty
• Winter
  Ali Smith