Year-End Lists

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2017 Books

Harper’s Bazaar: Best Books of 2017

26 December 2017

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Harper’s Bazaar: Best Books of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

  1. Pachinko
    Min Jin Lee
  2. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
    Gail Honeyman
  3. Saints for All Occasions
    J. Courtney Sullivan
  4. Exit West
    Mohsin Hamid
  5. Anything Is Possible
    Elizabeth Strout
  6. Little Fires Everywhere
    Celeste Ng
  7. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  8. Hunger
    A Memoir of (My) Body
    Roxane Gay
  9. What We Lose
    Zinzi Clemmons
  10. A Separation
    Katie Kitamura
  11. How to Murder Your Life
    Cat Marnell
  12. Joni
    The Anthology
    Barney Hoskyns
  13. Marlena
    Julie Buntin
  14. South and West
    From a Notebook
    Joan Didion
  15. The Golden House
    Salman Rushdie
  16. My Life with Bob
    Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
    Pamela Paul
  17. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy
  18. Theft by Finding
    Diaries (1977-2002)
    David Sedaris
  19. Debriefing
    Collected Stories
    Susan Sontag

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