Verso: Best Books of 2017
Verso: Best Books of 2017 (some of which were published previously but were still “favourites of the year”)
Fiction
- Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone – James Baldwin
- The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq – Hassan Blasim
- The Gift – Barbara Browning
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- The Debutante and Other Stories – Leonora Carrington
- The Vet’s Daughter – Barbara Comyns
- Segu – Maryse Conde
- The Doll’s Alphabet – Camilla Grudova
- The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist – Emile Habiby
- Darker With the Lights On – David Hayden
- Hot Milk – Deborah Levy
- Her Body and Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado
- Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times – Kopano Matlwa
- First Love – Gwendoline Riley
- Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
- Love Story – Erich Segal
- We That Are Young – Preti Taneja
- Attrib. and other stories – Eley Williams
- The Hoke Moseley Detective Series – Charles Willeford
- The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction
- Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising – Gilbert Achcar
- After Kathy Acker – Chris Kraus
- Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them – Edited by Rhian Jones and Eli Davies
- Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe – Peter Dickens and James Ormrod
- The Greeks and the Irrational – E.R. Dodds
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? – Mark Fisher
- No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity – Sarah Haley
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself – Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Spheres of Existence: Selected Writings – C.L.R. James
- Hell’s Destruction: An Exploration of Christ’s Descent to the Dead – Catherine Ella Laufer
- Your Silence Will Not Protect You – Audre Lorde
- Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel – Carl Safina
- Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States – James C. Scott
- The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections – Robbie Shilliam
- Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital – William Clare Roberts
- Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism – Steve Wright
Memoir
- Living for Change: An Autobiography – Grace Lee Boggs
- Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration – David Wojnarowicz