Year-End Lists

The Stranger: Top 20 Books of 2017, plus a list of “besties”

• Difficult Women
  Roxane Gay
• The Mother of All Questions
  Rebecca Solnit
• This Is How It Always Is
  Laurie Frankel
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
  Kurt Andersen
• In the Long Run We Are All Dead

  Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
  Geoff Mann
• The Rules Do Not Apply
  Ariel Levy
• Nomadland

  Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
  Jessica Bruder
• Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie

  Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary
  Pat Thomas
• Love and Trouble

  A Midlife Reckoning
  Claire Dederer
• Afterglow (a dog memoir)
  Eileen Myles
• World Without Mind

  The Existential Threat of Big Tech
  Franklin Foer
• Vinyl Freak

  Love Letters to a Dying Medium
  John Corbett
• (v.)
  Anastacia Renee
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Ranger Games

  A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
  Ben Blum
• Conflict Is Not Abuse

  Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
  Sarah Schulman
• The Best We Could Do

  An Illustrated Memoir
  Thi Bui
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
  Morgan Parker
• All Grown Up
  Jami Attenberg
• What Happened
  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Besties

• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• The Raincoats
  Jenn Pelly
• Good Booty

  Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
  Ann Powers
• The Trouble with Reality

  A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
  Brooke Gladstone
• Bunk

  The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
  Kevin Young
• Ugly Time
  Sarah Galvin
• Catcall
  Holly Melgard
• Other Russias
  Victoria Lomasko
• Boyfriends
  Tara Atkinson
• Nature Poem
  Tommy Pico
• While Standing in Line for Death
  CAConrad
• Unreal City
  D.J. Bryant
• Why Poetry
  Matthew Zapruder
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
  Emil Ferris
• Sour Heart
  Jenny Zhang
• Dreaming the Beatles

  The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
  Rob Sheffield
• The State of Affairs

  Rethinking Infidelity
  Esther Perel
• Why We Sleep

  Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
  Matthew Walker
• Homo Deus

  A Brief History of Tomorrow
  Yuval Harari