Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2017 Books

Library Journal: 10 Best Books of 2017

18 December 2017

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexie

Library Journal: 10 Best Books of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2016 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
    Sherman Alexie
  2. Nomadland
    Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
    Jessica Bruder
  3. Hunger
    A Memoir of (My) Body
    Roxane Gay
  4. Killers of the Flower Moon
    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    David Grann
  5. Ginny Moon
    Benjamin Ludwig
  6. The Ninth Hour
    Alice McDermott
  7. Ghost of the Innocent Man
    A True Story of Trial and Redemption
    Benjamin Rachlin
  8. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  9. Lucky Boy
    Shanthi Sekaran
  10. Home Fire
    Kamila Shamsie

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