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
4592 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
5983 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
8914 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
9353 Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen 2017 American English
9370 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9802 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
9824 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
10183 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10938 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
11081 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11081 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11161 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
12187 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12213 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
17119 The New Animals Pip Adam 2017 New Zealander English
17119 Hate To Want You Alisha Rai 2017 American English
17119 Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 2017 British English
17119 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17119 A Book Of American Martyrs Joyce Carol Oates 2017 American English
17119 Us Against You Fredrik Backman 2017 Swedish Swedish
17119 They Both Die At The End Adam Silvera 2017 American English
17119 The Godmother Hannelore Cayre 2017 French French
17119 A Fist Or A Heart Kristín Eiríksdóttir 2017 Icelandic Icelandic
17119 Lie With Me Philippe Besson 2017 French French
17119 Tales Of Falling And Flying Ben Loory 2017 American English
17119 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
17119 Lonely Castle In The Mirror Mizuki Tsujimura 2017 Japanese Japanese
17119 Ankomst Gøhril Gabrielsen 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17119 A Modern Family Helga Flatland 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17119 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17119 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17119 The Heirs Susan Rieger 2017 American English
17119 Fox Dubravka Ugrešić 2017 Croatian Croatian
17119 Concerning My Daughter Hye-Jin Kim 2017 South Korean Korean
17119 Райский сад первой любви Линь Ихань 2017 Chinese Chinese (traditional)
17119 Basketball Shea Serrano 2017 American English
17119 Made For Love Alissa Nutting 2017 American English
17119 Strange Practice Vivian Shaw 2017 American English
17119 History Is All You Left Me Adam Silvera 2017 American English
17119 Cold Harbor Matthew FitzSimmons 2017 American English
17119 Дорогуша C.J. Skuse 2017 British English