Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
The Independent: Best Fiction Books of 2024
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2024
Economist: The Best Films of 2024
more...
2017 Books
A.V. Club: 24 Favorite Books of 2017
04 December 2017
The A.V. Club
:
24 Favorite Books of 2017
[see also
2021
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2020
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2018
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2015
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What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons
The Book of Dust
La Belle Sauvage (Volume 1)
Philip Pullman
The Answers
Catherine Lacey
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Homesick for Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh
Theft by Finding
Diaries (1977-2002)
David Sedaris
A Separation
Katie Kitamura
21st-Century Yokel
Tom Cox
Idaho
Emily Ruskovich
Imaginary Cities
A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
Darran Anderson
The Unwomanly Face of War
An Oral History of Women in World War II
Svetlana Alexievich
Paperbacks from Hell
The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
Grady Hendrix
Word by Word
The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper
Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
Out in the Open
Jesús Carrasco
Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang
The Last Days of Café Leila
Donia Bijan
Vacationland
True Stories from Painful Beaches
John Hodgman
Flâneuse
Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Lauren Elkin
Why I Am Not A Feminist
A Feminist Manifesto
Jessa Crispin
300 Arguments
Sarah Manguso
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
