The 10 Best Books of the Year So Far
Graphic novels, gripping true stories, and standout literary fiction from newcomers and Pulitzer Prize winners alike: our picks for the books that have already made 2017 great.
Exit Westby Mohsin Hamid
Hamid’s magic-tinged tale of two young refugees in love is both timeless and topical, brutal and tenderand at a brisk, luminous 231 pages, a quiet marvel of narrative economy and insight.Buy it here!
Killers of the Flower Moonby David Grann
Grann makes meticulously researched history read like a Western: a blazing campfire tale of greed, murder, and manifest destiny on the Oklahoma plains.Buy it here!
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Lincoln in the Bardoby George Saunders
A wildly inventive ghost story inspired by the paternal grief of one of America’s most beloved presidents, and born from the dazzling puzzle-box brain of one of its finest living writers.Buy it here!
Chemistryby Weike Wang
A spiky, sparkling slip of a novel narrated by a nameless Harvard grad student with a singular take on love, lab science, and existential crises.Buy it here!
The Hate U Giveby Angie Thomas
Traversing the greased balance beam of young black womanhood with frank wit and hard-earned wisdom, first-time novelist Thomas delivers a more-than-YA winner.Buy it here!
Penguin Random House
Anything Is Possibleby Elizabeth Strout
There are no small lives, only undiscovered ones, in theOlive Kitteridgeauthor’s deeply resonant latest.Buy it here!
The Rules Do Not Applyby Ariel Levy
TheNew Yorkerstaff writer turns the nadir of her lifea brutal stillbirth, a shipwrecked marriageinto a galvanizing portrait of self-discovery.Buy it here!
The Animatorsby Kayla Rae Whitaker
Two art-school misfits become stars of the cartoon underground in a rough-cut tragi-comic gem that reads like the literary godchild of alt-icons R. Crumb and Lynda Barry.Buy it here!
Doubleday Publishing
The Fact of a Bodyby Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
A notorious 1992 child murder leads a lawyer-turned-writer to her own long-buried family secrets in a high-wire fusion of autobiography and true crime.Buy it here!
My Favorite Thing is Monstersby Emil Ferris
Ferris' gorgeous comic opus is a beast: a wild riot of color and character as richly imagined as any “serious” fiction.Buy it here!
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Harper Collins
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Random House
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Flatiron Books
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