The Greatest Fiction 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
3182 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
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
4592 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
4755 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5659 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5984 The Idiot Elif Batuman 2017 American English
6096 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne 2017 Irish English
6147 In The Distance Hernan Díaz 2017 American English
6253 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty 2017 Irish English
6411 All Systems Red Martha Wells 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
7141 Jade City Fonda Lee 2017 Chinese English
7979 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
7996 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
8104 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8288 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8380 American War Omar El Akkad 2017 Canadian English
8402 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
8692 Amberlough Lara Elena Donnelly 2017 American English
8915 All Grown Up Jami Attenberg 2017 American English
8988 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9016 Improvement Joan Silber 2017 American English
9305 Ploaia De Trei Sute De Zile Gabriel Chifu 2017 Romanian Romanian
9355 Hard Hitter Sarina Bowen 2017 American English
9368 A Line Made By Walking Sara Baume 2017 Irish English
9372 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9523 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
9604 The Orphanage Serhiy Zhadan 2017 Ukrainian Ukrainian
9699 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9699 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9803 Long Way Down Jason Reynolds 2017 American English
9803 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
9825 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9832 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
9882 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
10184 Immigrant, Montana Amitava Kumar 2017 American English
10210 Iron Moon Qin Xiaoyu 2017 Chinese English
10832 The Silent Wife Kerry Fisher 2017 British English
10861 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10937 The Leavers Lisa Ko 2017 American English
10938 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez 2017 American English
10938 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10938 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
10954 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
10994 Hollywood Homicide Kellye Garrett 2017 American English
11081 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11161 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
11234 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11290 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11297 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11480 The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 2017 British English
11612 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11924 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
12187 Allegedly Tiffany D. Jackson 2017 American English
12187 American Street Ibi Zoboi 2017 American English
12187 When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon 2017 American English
12213 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
12225 The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 2017 American English
12225 Persepolis Rising James S. A. Corey 2017 American English
12225 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
12751 Border Districts Gerald Murnane 2017 Australian English
12777 Tender Is The Flesh Agustina Bazterrica 2017 Argentine Spanish
13276 Idaho Emily Ruskovich 2017 American English
13349 New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 2017 American English
13710 The Fruit Thief Peter Handke 2017 Austrian German
13817 The Girl With The Leica Helena Janeczek 2017 Italian Italian
13885 City Of Miracles Robert Jackson Bennett 2017 American English
13885 Down Among The Sticks And Bones Seanan McGuire 2017 American English
13885 Raven Stratagem Yoon Ha Lee 2017 American English
13885 An Unkindness Of Ghosts Rivers Solomon 2017 American English
13941 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
13967 Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny 2017 American English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
13971 Book Of Mutter Kate Zambreno 2017 American English
14092 The Idea Of You Robinne Lee 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 Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan 2017 American English
14588 Primera Persona Margarita García Robayo 2017 Colombian Spanish
14588 The Bitch Pilar Quintana 2017 Colombian Spanish
14984 Ka John Crowley 2017 American English
14984 Frogkisser Garth Nix 2017 Australian English
14984 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 Emil Ferris 2017 American English
14984 The Bear And The Nightingale Katherine Arden 2017 American English
14984 The Ninth Rain Jen Williams 2017 British English
14984 Artemis Andy Weir 2017 American English
14984 Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson 2017 American English
14984 The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar 2017 Iranian Persian
14984 Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan 2017 American English
15680 The Hainish Novels And Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 2017 American English
17120 Dreams Before The Start Of Time Anne Charnock 2017 British English
17120 The New Animals Pip Adam 2017 New Zealander English
17120 The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion Margaret Killjoy 2017 American English
17120 Hate To Want You Alisha Rai 2017 American English
17120 The Stars Are Legion Kameron Hurley 2017 American English
17120 Attrib. And Other Stories Eley Williams 2017 British English
17120 Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 2017 British English
17120 Autonomous Annalee Newitz 2017 American English
17120 Love Her Wild Atticus 2017 Canadian English
17120 A Doll's House, Part 2 Lucas Hnath 2017 American English
17120 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17120 Blackwing Ed McDonald 2017 British English
17120 The White Tower Michael Wisehart 2017 American English
17120 Empire's End Chuck Wendig 2017 American English
17120 The Art Of Starving Sam J. Miller 2017 American English
17120 The Rift Nina Allan 2017 British English
17120 Sleeping Beauties Stephen King, Owen King 2017 American English
17120 Hello, Universe Erin Entrada Kelly 2017 American English
17120 Honor Sonallah Ibrahim 2017 Egyptian Arabic