The Greatest Contemporary 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
3569 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
4593 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
5987 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
8917 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
9357 Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen 2017 American English
9374 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9806 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
9828 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
10189 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10943 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
11086 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11086 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11166 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
12188 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12214 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
13941 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
13971 Book Of Mutter Kate Zambreno 2017 American English
14122 Turtles All The Way Down John Green 2017 American English
14168 This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel 2017 American English
14232 This Is Going To Hurt Adam Kay 2017 British English
17163 The New Animals Pip Adam 2017 New Zealander English
17163 Hate To Want You Alisha Rai 2017 American English
17163 Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 2017 British English
17163 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17163 A Book Of American Martyrs Joyce Carol Oates 2017 American English
17163 Us Against You Fredrik Backman 2017 Swedish Swedish
17163 They Both Die At The End Adam Silvera 2017 American English
17163 The Godmother Hannelore Cayre 2017 French French
17163 A Fist Or A Heart Kristín Eiríksdóttir 2017 Icelandic Icelandic
17163 Lie With Me Philippe Besson 2017 French French
17163 Tales Of Falling And Flying Ben Loory 2017 American English
17163 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
17163 Lonely Castle In The Mirror Mizuki Tsujimura 2017 Japanese Japanese
17163 Ankomst Gøhril Gabrielsen 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 A Modern Family Helga Flatland 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17163 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17163 The Heirs Susan Rieger 2017 American English
17163 Fox Dubravka Ugrešić 2017 Croatian Croatian
17163 Concerning My Daughter Hye-Jin Kim 2017 South Korean Korean
17163 Райский сад первой любви Линь Ихань 2017 Chinese Chinese (traditional)
17163 Basketball Shea Serrano 2017 American English
17163 Made For Love Alissa Nutting 2017 American English
17163 Strange Practice Vivian Shaw 2017 American English
17163 History Is All You Left Me Adam Silvera 2017 American English
17163 Cold Harbor Matthew FitzSimmons 2017 American English
17163 Дорогуша C.J. Skuse 2017 British English