Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2017 Books

Week: Best Books of 2017

02 January 2018

The Week: Best Books of 2017, divided into novels and nonfiction

Novels

  1. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  2. Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Jesmyn Ward
  3. Exit West
    Mohsin Hamid
  4. White Tears
    Hari Kunzru
  5. Manhattan Beach
    Jennifer Egan

Nonfiction

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    David Grann
  2. The Future Is History
    How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
    Masha Gessen
  3. We Were Eight Years in Power
    An American Tragedy
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
  4. Grant
    Ron Chernow
  5. Hunger
    A Memoir of (My) Body
    Roxane Gay

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