Year-End Lists

Entropy: Best Books of 2017, divided into fiction and nonfiction (numbered but “in no particular order”)

[see also 2018]

Fiction

1. Isadora
   Amelia Gray
2. The Book of Joan
   Lidia Yuknavitch
3. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
4. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
5. Sour Heart
   Jenny Zhang
6. The Changeling
   Victor LaValle
7. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
   Leonora Carrington
8. Down Below
   Leonora Carrington
9. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
10. Motherest
    Kristen Iskandrian
11. No One Can Pronounce My Name
    Rakesh Satyal
12. The Dark Dark
    Samantha Hunt
13. The Red Barn
    Nat Baldwin
14. Silk Flowers
    Meghan Lamb
15. The Disintegrations
    Alistair McCartney
16. The Protester Has Been Released
    Janet Sarbanes
17. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
    Patty Yumi Cottrell
18. The Golden House
    Salman Rushdie
19. Made for Love
    Alissa Nutting
20. The Complete Ballet

    A Fictional Essay in Five Acts
    John Haskell
21. Her Body and Other Parties
    Carmen Maria Machado
22. Homesick for Another World
    Ottessa Moshfegh
23. Tales of Falling and Flying
    Ben Loory
24. Sonata in K
    Karen An-hwei Lee
25. Enfermario
    Gabriela Torres Olivares
26. The Secret Room
    Kazim Ali
27. The Ladies
    Sara Veglahn
28. The Idiot
    Elif Batuman
29. The Leavers
    Lisa Ko
30. Genevieves
    Henry Hoke
31. Frontier
    Can Xue
32. Assisted Living
    Gary Lutz
33. The Grip of It
    Jac Jemc
34. The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings
    Juan Rulfo
35. Not One Day
    Anne Garréta
36. An Occasional History
    Laura Davenport
37. The Truth About Me
    Louise Marburg
38. The Week
    Joanna Ruocco
39. Houses of Ravicka
    Renee Gladman
40. New People
    Danzy Senna
41. Before Everything
    Victoria Redel
42. Wait Till You See Me Dance
    Deb Olin Unferth
43. Home Fire
    Kamila Shamsie
44. The World Goes On
    László Krasznahorkai
45. Stephen Florida
    Gabe Habash
46. Empty Set
    Verónica Gerber Bicecci
47. My Heart Hemmed In
    Marie NDiaye
48. Little Fires Everywhere
    Celeste Ng
49. Buckskin Cocaine
    Erika T. Wurth
50. Man’s Wars and Wickedness

    A Book of Proposed Remedies and Extreme Formulations for Curing Hositlity, Rivalry, and Ill-Will
    Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz
51. Large Animals
    Jess Arndt
52. Is God Is
    Aleshea Harris
53. Pachinko
    Min Jin Lee
54. Modern Love
    Constance DeJong
55. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Mariana Enriquez
56. Notes of a Crocodile
    Qiu Miaojin
57. Ice

    50th Anniversary Edition
    Anna Kavan
58. Writers Who Love Too Much

    New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
    Edited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
59. The Passion of Woo & Isolde
    Jennifer Tseng
60. A Small Revolution
    Jimin Han

Nonfiction

1. Afterglow (a dog memoir)
   Eileen Myles
2. After Kathy Acker
   Chris Kraus
3. 300 Arguments
   Sarah Manguso
4. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
   Hanif Abdurraqib
5. Hunger

   A Memoir of (My) Body
   Roxane Gay
6. Sunshine State
   Sarah Gerard
7. Why Poetry
   Matthew Zapruder
8. Irradiated Cities
   Mariko Nagai
9. The Book of Disquiet

   The Complete Edition
   Fernando Pessoa
10. Of Sphere
    Karla Kelsey
11. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit
    Aisha Sabatini Sloan
12. Autumn
    Karl Ove Knausgaard
13. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
    Yiyun Li
14. Being a Beast

    Adventures Across the Species Divide
    Charles Foster
15. You, Me, and the Violence
    Catherine Taylor
16. We Were Eight Years in Power

    An American Tragedy
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
17. The Misfit’s Manifesto
    Lidia Yuknavitch
18. The Art of Death

    Writing the Final Story
    Edwidge Danticat
19. Swallow the Fish
    Gabrielle Civil
20. Blind Spot
    Teju Cole
21. like a solid to a shadow
    Janice Lobo Sapigao
22. Emergent Strategy

    Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
    adrienne maree brown
23. Cecilia Vicuña

    About to Happen
    various authors
24. Final Fantasy V
    Chris Kohler
25. Book of Mutter
    Kate Zambreno
26. Dying
    Cory Taylor
27. Caca Dolce

    Essays from a Lowbrow Life
    Chelsea Martin
28. The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

    1940-1956
    Sylvia Plath
29. Living a Feminist Life
    Sara Ahmed
30. Ideal Suggestions

    Essays in Divinatory Poetics
    Selah Saterstrom
31. Birds Art Life

    A Year of Observation
    Kyo Maclear
32. From Our Hearts to Yours

    New Narrative as Contemporary Practice
    Edited by Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw
33. The Sarah Book
    Scott McClanahan
34. Long Shot

    The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter
    Craig Hodges
35. A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother
    Anna Prushinskaya
36. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
    Samantha Irby
37. No Is Not Enough

    Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
    Naomi Klein
38. How to Keep You Alive
    Ella Longpre
39. Bunk

    The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
    Kevin Young
40. A TransPacific Poetics
    Edited by Lisa Samuels & Sawako Nakayasu