Year-End Lists
Notable, browsable lists. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2020
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2019
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2017 Books
Shelf Awareness: Best Books of 2017
04 January 2018
Shelf Awareness
:
Best Books of 2017
[see also
2018
]
Fiction
A Horse Walks into a Bar
David Grossman
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
Ruth Gilligan
Since I Laid My Burden Down
Brontez Purnell
So Much Blue
Percival Everett
Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang
South Pole Station
Ashley Shelby
Stay with Me
Ayobami Adebayo
The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden
The Girl in Green
Derek B. Miller
The Marsh King’s Daughter
Karen Dionne
The Year of the Comet
Sergei Lebedev
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah
White Tears
Hari Kunzru
Nonfiction
A Really Big Lunch: Meditations on Food and Life from the Roving Gourmand
Jim Harrison
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
Danielle S. Allen
Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption
Benjamin Rachlin
Give a Girl a Knife
Amy Thielen
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me
Bill Hayes
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Ron Powers
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
Sherman Alexie
