Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2017

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65 Works 62,526 Books 3,268 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Arts and Literature (89), Best of the Year Title (1), Biography (204), Biography & Memoir (8), Booklist Editor's Choice (2), Business (1), Fiction (554), Genre Fiction (19), Geography & Travel (4), Graphic Novels for Adults (1), Health & Medicine (11), Health and Medicine (2), History (139), History & Travel (10), Illus: Fred Marcellino (1), Memoir (2), Nonfiction (1), Philosophy (1), Philosophy and Psychology (1), Poetry (41), Reference Sources (2), Religion (5), Science (63), Science & Technology (15), Social Sciences (169), Technology (1), Top of the List (7), Travel (2), No Category (267)
Years:
All, 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie
Arts and Literature2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Arts and Literature2017
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
Arts and Literature2017
Grant by Ron Chernow
Biography2017
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
Biography2017
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes
Biography2017
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
Fiction2017
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Fiction2017
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
Fiction2017
Days without End by Sebastian Barry
Fiction2017
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume
Fiction2017
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Fiction2017
Some Rise by Sin by Philip Caputo
Fiction2017
Huck Out West: A Novel by Robert Coover
Fiction2017
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Fiction2017
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2017
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction2017
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Fiction2017
Human Acts by Kang Han
Fiction2017
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Fiction2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Fiction2017
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Fiction2017
The Possessions: A Novel by Sara Flannery Murphy
Fiction2017
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fiction2017
Savage Country: A Novel by Robert Olmstead
Fiction2017
The Blue Hour by Laura Pritchett
Fiction2017
A Natural by Ross Raisin
Fiction2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Fiction2017
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2017
No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
Fiction2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Fiction2017
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Fiction2017
After the Bloom by Leslie Shimotakahara
Fiction2017
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Fiction2017
The Force by Don Winslow
Fiction2017
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
Geography & Travel2017
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury
History2017
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. Davis
History2017
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
History2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
History2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
History2017
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
History2017
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
History2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
History2017
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein
History2017
Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell
Poetry2017
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Poetry2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
Religion2017
Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms by Ted Anton
Science & Technology2017
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron
Science & Technology2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Science & Technology2017
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
Science & Technology2017
Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System by Michael Summers
Science & Technology2017
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Danielle S. Allen
Social Sciences2017
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Social Sciences2017
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
Social Sciences2017
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement by Jon Else
Social Sciences2017
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
Social Sciences2017
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean
Social Sciences2017
I Was Told to Come Alone by Souad Mekhennet
Social Sciences2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Social Sciences2017
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
Social Sciences2017
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Social Sciences2017
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
Social Sciences2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
Social Sciences2017

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