The Top 20 books of 2017 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Top 20 Best Books of 2017

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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers rate their favorite books of the year to choose our Top 20 Best of Year titles. More about how the books are selected.

La Belle Sauvage

The Book of Dust #1

by Philip Pullman

Hardcover: Oct 2017 | Paperback: Jun 2019

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2017 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel

Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of his groundbreaking novel The Golden Compass to expand on the story of Lyra

Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

Hardcover: Sep 2017 | Paperback: May 2019

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2017 BookBrowse Fiction Award

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their ...

Happiness

The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

by Heather Harpham

Hardcover: Aug 2017 | Paperback: Nov 2018

Critics' Consensus:

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.

Code Girls

The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy

Hardcover: Oct 2017 | Paperback: Oct 2018

Critics' Consensus:

"Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece of forgotten history, and given these American heroes the recognition they deserve." - Nathalia Holt, ...

Five-Carat Soul

by James McBride

Hardcover: Sep 2017 | Paperback: Sep 2018

Critics' Consensus:

Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird.

Savage Country

A Novel

by Robert Olmstead

Hardcover: Sep 2017 | Paperback: Sep 2018

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction--the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency. And the intimate ...

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

A Novel

by Jamie Ford

Hardcover: Sep 2017 | Paperback: Jun 2018

Critics' Consensus:

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair.

Hunger

A Memoir of (My) Body

by Roxane Gay

Hardcover: Jun 2017 | Paperback: Jun 2018

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

Hardcover: May 2017 | Paperback: Jun 2018

Critics' Consensus:

Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey.

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann

Hardcover: Apr 2017 | Paperback: Apr 2018

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2017 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award

A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.

The Heart's Invisible Furies

A Novel

by John Boyne

Hardcover: Aug 2017 | Paperback: Mar 2018

Critics' Consensus:

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland

The Radium Girls

The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore

Hardcover: May 2017 | Paperback: Mar 2018

Critics' Consensus:

The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger.

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