Year-End Lists

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Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Best Books of 2017 Harper’s Bazaar

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Five Best Books of 2017 by Women of Color gal-dem

10 Favorite Books of 2017 Slate: Laura Miller

Best Books of 2017 Verso Books

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexie

10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal

Best Books of 2017 Entropy

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

10 Best Books of 2017 Entertainment Weekly

10 Best Books of 2017 Chicago Tribune

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

22 Best Fiction Books of 2017 Boston Globe: John Freeman

19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017 Boston Globe: Kate Tuttle

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

45 Best Books of 2017 Paste

10 Favorite Books of 2017 Slate: Katy Waldman

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

10 Best Books of 2017 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

10 Best Books of 2017 Publishers Weekly

Top 20 Books of 2017 Time

So Much Blue - Percival Everett

10 Best Books of 2017 Vulture: Christian Lorentzen

30 Best Books of 2017 Christian Science Monitor

100 Notable Books of 2017 New York Times

31 Best Fiction Books of 2017 Guardian

The Future Is History - Masha Gessen

11 Favorite Books of 2017 O Magazine

10 Best Books of 2017 Vogue: Megan O’Grady

Hourglass - Dani Shapiro

Best Nonfiction of 2017 Powell's Books

24 Favorite Books of 2017 A.V. Club

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

Best Fiction of 2017 Powell's Books

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