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
2228 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2647 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
3178 Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood 2017 American English
3183 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
3258 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3841 An Extraordinary Union Alyssa Cole 2017 American English
4592 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
4740 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4755 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
5276 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5330 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5388 In Memory Of Memory Maria Stepanova 2017 Russian Russian
5662 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5809 Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser 2017 American English
5987 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
6099 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne 2017 Irish English
6122 The Best We Could Do Thi Bui 2017 American English
6150 In The Distance Hernan Díaz 2017 American English
6256 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 2017 Irish English
6333 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
6379 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
6414 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
6537 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
7904 Locking Up Our Own James Forman 2017 American English
7980 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
7997 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
8063 The Future Is History Masha Gessen 2017 Russian English
8106 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8144 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8193 The Order Of Time Carlo Rovelli 2017 Italian Italian
8290 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8382 American War Omar El Akkad 2017 Canadian English
8404 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
8638 Other Russias Victoria Lomasko 2017 Russian Russian
8694 Amberlough Lara Elena Donnelly 2017 American English
8848 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
8885 Black and Blur Fred Moten 2017 American English
8917 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
8990 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9018 Improvement Joan Silber 2017 American English
9192 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9192 Hit Makers Derek Thompson 2017 American English
9192 Talking Back, Talking Black John McWhorter 2017 American English
9192 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9220 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9285 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9307 Ploaia De Trei Sute De Zile Gabriel Chifu 2017 Romanian Romanian
9357 Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen 2017 American English
9370 A Line Made By Walking Sara Baume 2017 Irish English
9374 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9525 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
9564 아픔이 길이 되려면 김승섭 2017 Korean Korean
9606 The Orphanage Serhiy Zhadan 2017 Ukrainian Ukrainian
9621 We Are Never Meeting In Real Life. Samantha Irby 2017 American English
9701 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9701 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9805 Long Way Down Jason Reynolds 2017 American English
9805 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
9827 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9834 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
9884 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
9954 The Souls Of China Ian Johnson 2017 American English
10021 Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo 2017 Chinese English
10091 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10091 We Have No Idea Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham 2017 Unknown English
10106 Unlikely Partners Julian Gewirtz 2017 Unknown English
10188 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10191 Little Soldiers Lenora Chu 2017 Unknown English
10214 Iron Moon Qin Xiaoyu 2017 Chinese English
10284 They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 American English
10762 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10762 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10817 Life In Code Ellen Ullman 2017 American English
10836 The Silent Wife Kerry Fisher 2017 British English
10837 Border Kapka Kassabova 2017 Bulgarian English
10837 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 2017 American English
10865 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10866 The Broken King Michael Thomas 2017 Unknown English
10941 The Leavers Lisa Ko 2017 American English
10942 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez 2017 American English
10942 The 57 Bus Dashka Slater 2017 American English
10942 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10942 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
10958 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
10998 Hollywood Homicide Kellye Garrett 2017 American English
11074 Hit So Hard Patty Schemel 2017 Unknown English
11085 Insomniac City Bill Hayes 2017 American English
11085 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11085 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11085 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11085 Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry 2017 Australian English
11165 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
11238 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11294 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11301 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11302 New Cemetery Simon Armitage 2017 English English
11324 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
11482 Ali Jonathan Eig 2017 American English
11482 The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 2017 British English
11482 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11482 Ninety Nine Glimpses Of Princess Margaret Craig Brown 2017 British English
11482 Why Comics? Hillary L. Chute 2017 American English
11614 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11662 The Evolution Of Beauty Richard O. Prum 2017 American English
11828 The Mother Of All Questions Rebecca Solnit 2017 American English
11843 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11846 The House Of Government Yuri Slezkine 2017 American English
11846 Ghosts Of The Tsunami Richard Lloyd Parry 2017 British English
11925 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English