Year-End Lists

Book Riot: Best Books of 2017

[see also 2024 • 2023]

• A Conjuring of Light
  V.E. Schwab
• All Grown Up
  Jami Attenberg
• An Extraordinary Union
  Alyssa Cole
• Bluebird, Bluebird
  Attica Locke
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Hate to Want You
  Alisha Rai
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Hunger

  A Memoir of (My) Body
  Roxane Gay
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Little Fires Everywhere
  Celeste Ng
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
  Emil Ferris
• One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
  Scaachi Koul
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• The Changeling
  Victor LaValle
• The Fact of a Body

  A Murder and a Memoir
  Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
• The Gauntlet
  Karuna Riazi
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
  Mackenzi Lee
• The Hate U Give
  Angie Thomas
• The Prey of Gods
  Nicky Drayden
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Wanderers
  Meg Howrey
• We Are Okay
  Nina LaCour
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
  Lesley Nneka Arimah
• When Dimple Met Rishi
  Sandhya Menon
• White Tears
  Hari Kunzru
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  Sherman Alexie