The Greatest Books of 2017

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1022 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
1650 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017 American English
2227 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2646 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
3177 Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood 2017 American English
3182 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
3257 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3280 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3542 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3569 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3843 An Extraordinary Union Alyssa Cole 2017 American English
4591 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
4739 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4754 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
5274 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5328 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5385 In Memory Of Memory Maria Stepanova 2017 Russian Russian
5659 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5806 Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser 2017 American English
5983 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
6096 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne 2017 Irish English
6119 The Best We Could Do Thi Bui 2017 American English
6147 In The Distance Hernan Díaz 2017 American English
6253 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 2017 Irish English
6330 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
6376 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
6411 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
6535 Hunger Roxane Gay 2017 American English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
7007 Tyll Daniel Kehlmann 2017 German German
7050 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7094 The Color Of Law Richard Rothstein 2017 American English
7141 Jade City Fonda Lee 2017 Chinese English
7903 Locking Up Our Own James Forman 2017 American English
7979 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
7996 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
8062 The Future Is History Masha Gessen 2017 Russian English
8104 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8142 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8191 The Order Of Time Carlo Rovelli 2017 Italian Italian
8288 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8379 American War Omar El Akkad 2017 Canadian English
8401 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
8634 Other Russias Victoria Lomasko 2017 Russian Russian
8690 Amberlough Lara Elena Donnelly 2017 American English
8844 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
8881 Black and Blur Fred Moten 2017 American English
8913 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
8986 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9014 Improvement Joan Silber 2017 American English
9188 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9188 Hit Makers Derek Thompson 2017 American English
9188 Talking Back, Talking Black John McWhorter 2017 American English
9188 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9216 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9280 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9302 Ploaia De Trei Sute De Zile Gabriel Chifu 2017 Romanian Romanian
9352 Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen 2017 American English
9365 A Line Made By Walking Sara Baume 2017 Irish English
9369 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9520 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
9559 아픔이 길이 되려면 김승섭 2017 Korean Korean
9601 The Orphanage Serhiy Zhadan 2017 Ukrainian Ukrainian
9617 We Are Never Meeting In Real Life. Samantha Irby 2017 American English
9698 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9698 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9802 Long Way Down Jason Reynolds 2017 American English
9802 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
9824 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9831 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
9881 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
9950 The Souls Of China Ian Johnson 2017 American English
10017 Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo 2017 Chinese English
10086 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10086 We Have No Idea Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham 2017 Unknown English
10101 Unlikely Partners Julian Gewirtz 2017 Unknown English
10183 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10186 Little Soldiers Lenora Chu 2017 Unknown English
10209 Iron Moon Qin Xiaoyu 2017 Chinese English
10279 They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 American English
10756 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10756 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10811 Life In Code Ellen Ullman 2017 American English
10830 The Silent Wife Kerry Fisher 2017 British English
10831 Border Kapka Kassabova 2017 Bulgarian English
10831 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 2017 American English
10859 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10860 The Broken King Michael Thomas 2017 Unknown English
10935 The Leavers Lisa Ko 2017 American English
10936 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez 2017 American English
10936 The 57 Bus Dashka Slater 2017 American English
10936 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10936 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
10952 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
10992 Hollywood Homicide Kellye Garrett 2017 American English
11068 Hit So Hard Patty Schemel 2017 Unknown English
11079 Insomniac City Bill Hayes 2017 American English
11079 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11079 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11079 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11079 Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry 2017 Australian English
11159 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
11232 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11288 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11295 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11296 New Cemetery Simon Armitage 2017 English English
11318 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
11479 Ali Jonathan Eig 2017 American English
11479 The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 2017 British English
11479 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11479 Ninety Nine Glimpses Of Princess Margaret Craig Brown 2017 British English
11479 Why Comics? Hillary L. Chute 2017 American English
11612 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11660 The Evolution Of Beauty Richard O. Prum 2017 American English
11827 The Mother Of All Questions Rebecca Solnit 2017 American English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11845 The House Of Government Yuri Slezkine 2017 American English
11845 Ghosts Of The Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry 2017 British English
11924 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English