Year-End Lists

John Freeman: 22 Best Fiction Books of 2017, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2016]

• Borne
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Blameless
  Claudio Magris
• The Burning Girl
  Claire Messud
• The City Always Wins
  Omar Robert Hamilton
• Cockfosters
  Helen Simpson
• The End of Eddy
  Édouard Louis
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Fever Dream
  Samanta Schweblin
• Frontier
  Can Xue
• Go, Went, Gone
  Jenny Erpenbeck
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie
• House of Names
  Colm Tóibín
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Lonely Hearts Hotel
  Heather O’Neill
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  Arundhati Roy
• My Cat Yugoslavia
  Pajtim Statovci
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• The Power
  Naomi Alderman
• Savage Theories
  Pola Oloixarac
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• Things We Lost in the Fire
  Mariana Enriquez