Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2017

Fiction & Poetry

• American War
  Omar El Akkad
• Anything Is Possible
  Elizabeth Strout
• Autumn
  Ali Smith
• Bad Dreams and Other Stories
  Tessa Hadley
• Beautiful Animals
  Lawrence Osborne
• The Book of Joan
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• A Boy in Winter
  Rachel Seiffert
• The Changeling
  Victor LaValle
• Christmas Days

  12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
  Jeanette Winterson
• Dance of the Jakaranda
  Peter Kimani
• The Dark Flood Rises
  Margaret Drabble
• The Dinner Party

  Stories
  Joshua Ferris
• The Essex Serpent
  Sarah Perry
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Fast
  Jorie Graham
• Five-Carat Soul
  James McBride
• Forest Dark
  Nicole Krauss
• 4 3 2 1
  Paul Auster
• Fresh Complaint
  Jeffrey Eugenides
• Future Home of the Living God
  Louise Erdrich
• Giving Godhead
  Dylan Krieger
• History of Wolves
  Emily Fridlund
• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie
• Homesick for Another World
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• A Horse Walks into a Bar
  David Grossman
• The Idiot
  Elif Batuman
• Ill Will
  Dan Chaon
• A Kind of Freedom
  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Less
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Manhattan Beach
  Jennifer Egan
• Mrs. Osmond
  John Banville
• My Absolute Darling
  Gabriel Tallent
• New People
  Danzy Senna
• The Ninth Hour
  Alice McDermott
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• The Power
  Naomi Alderman
• The Refugees
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Selection Day
  Aravind Adiga
• A Separation
  Katie Kitamura
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• Six Four
  Hideo Yokoyama
• Stay with Me
  Ayobami Adebayo
• The Stone Sky
  N.K. Jemisin
• Ties
  Domenico Starnone
• Transit
  Rachel Cusk
• Waking Lions
  Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier
• White Tears
  Hari Kunzru
• Who Is Rich?
  Matthew Klam

Nonfiction

• Age of Anger

  A History of the Present
  Pankaj Mishra
• American Fire

  Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
  Monica Hesse
• Animals Strike Curious Poses
  Elena Passarello
• The Blood of Emmett Till
  Timothy B. Tyson
• Born a Crime

  Stories from a South African Childhood
  Trevor Noah
• Bunk

  The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
  Kevin Young
• Churchill and Orwell

  The Fight for Freedom
  Thomas E. Ricks
• The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
  Elizabeth Hardwick
• A Colony in a Nation
  Chris Hayes
• The Color of Law

  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  Richard Rothstein
• The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution

  Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
  Ganesh Sitaraman
• The Dawn Watch

  Joseph Conrad in a Global World
  Maya Jasanoff
• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
  Dan Egan
• Destined for War

  Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
  Graham Allison
• Devil’s Bargain

  Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
  Joshua Green
• The Evangelicals

  The Struggle to Shape America
  Frances FitzGerald
• The Evolution of Beauty

  How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us
  Richard O. Prum
• Fasting and Feasting

  The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray
  Adam Federman
• Flâneuse

  Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
  Lauren Elkin
• Friends Divided

  John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
  Gordon S. Wood
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Generation Revolution

  On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East
  Rachel Aspden
• The Glass Universe

  How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
  Dava Sobel
• Grant
  Ron Chernow
• Greater Gotham

  A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
  Mike Wallace
• The Gulf

  The Making of An American Sea
  Jack E. Davis
• Hamlet Globe to Globe

  Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play
  Dominic Dromgoole
• Henry David Thoreau

  A Life
  Laura Dassow Walls
• The House of Government

  A Saga of the Russian Revolution
  Yuri Slezkine
• The Invention of Angela Carter

  A Biography
  Edmund Gordon
• Janesville

  An American Story
  Amy Goldstein
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Krazy

  George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
  Michael Tisserand
• Lenin

  The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
  Victor Sebestyen
• Letterman

  The Last Giant of Late Night
  Jason Zinoman
• Locking Up Our Own

  Crime and Punishment in Black America
  James Forman Jr.
• Looking for The Stranger

  Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
  Alice Kaplan
• The Lost City of the Monkey God

  A True Story
  Douglas Preston
• Nomadland

  Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
  Jessica Bruder
• Notes on a Foreign Country

  An American Abroad in a Post-American World
  Suzy Hansen
• Prairie Fires

  The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Caroline Fraser
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• The Songs We Know Best

  John Ashbery’s Early Life
  Karin Roffman
• Tenements, Towers & Trash

  An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
  Julia Wertz
• To Siri with Love

  A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
  Judith Newman
• The Undoing Project

  A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
  Michael Lewis
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What Happened
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
• World Without Mind

  The Existential Threat of Big Tech
  Franklin Foer
• You Say to Brick

  The Life of Louis Kahn
  Wendy Lesser