Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: 24 Favorite Books of 2017

• What We Lose
  Zinzi Clemmons
• The Book of Dust

  La Belle Sauvage (Volume 1)
  Philip Pullman
• The Answers
  Catherine Lacey
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Mother of All Questions
  Rebecca Solnit
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Homesick for Another World
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Theft by Finding

  Diaries (1977-2002)
  David Sedaris
• A Separation
  Katie Kitamura
• 21st-Century Yokel
  Tom Cox
• Idaho
  Emily Ruskovich
• Imaginary Cities

  A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
  Darran Anderson
• The Unwomanly Face of War

  An Oral History of Women in World War II
  Svetlana Alexievich
• Paperbacks from Hell

  The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
  Grady Hendrix
• Word by Word

  The Secret Life of Dictionaries
  Kory Stamper
• Strange the Dreamer
  Laini Taylor
• Out in the Open
  Jesús Carrasco
• Sour Heart
  Jenny Zhang
• The Last Days of Café Leila
  Donia Bijan
• Vacationland

  True Stories from Painful Beaches
  John Hodgman
• Flâneuse

  Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
  Lauren Elkin
• Why I Am Not A Feminist

  A Feminist Manifesto
  Jessa Crispin
• 300 Arguments
  Sarah Manguso
• Turtles All the Way Down
  John Green