“What are the best Fiction books of 2017?” We aggregated 51 year-end lists and ranked the 571 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!
There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear the most. The top 49 books, all of which appeared on 5 or more best Fiction book lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase. The remaining 500+ books, as well as the top book lists, are at the bottom of the page.
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You can also take a look at our Best Fiction books from last year as well as all the other Best 2016 articles!
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“Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends—Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984—look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand-in-hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever.
A luminous meditation on the meaning of richness and harvest and worth, Autumn is the first installment of Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet, and it casts an eye over our own time: Who are we? What are we made of? Shakespearean jeu d’esprit, Keatsian melancholy, the sheer bright energy of 1960s pop art. Wide-ranging in time-scale and light-footed through histories, Autumn is an unforgettable story about aging and time and love—and stories themselves.”
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She s Sorry and Britt Marie Was Here comes a poignant charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person but it means everything to the residents of Beartown a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities A victory like this would certainly mean everything to Amat a short scrawny teenager who is treated like an outcast everywhere but on the ice to Kevin a star player just on the cusp of securing his golden future in the NHL and to Peter their dedicated general manager whose own professional hockey career ended in tragedy At first it seems like the team might have a shot at fulfilling the dreams of their entire town But one night at a drunken celebration following a key win something happens between Kevin and the general manager s daughter and the next day everything seems to have changed Accusations are made and like ripples on a pond they travel through all of Beartown leaving no resident unaffected With so much riding on the success of the team the line between loyalty and betrayal becomes difficult to discern At last it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear Fredrik Backman knows that we are forever shaped by the places we call home and in this emotionally powerful sweetly insightful story he explores what can happen when we carry the heavy weight of other people s dreams on our shoulders
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“When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders–a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman–have stirred up a hornet’s nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes–and save himself in the process–before Lark’s long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.”
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“Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth’s father’s condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief.
Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.”
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“Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author’s short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.
And for good reason. There’s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O’Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We’re in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.”
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“In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki―son of a giant―blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.
Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Once, when Thor’s hammer is stolen, Thor must disguise himself as a woman―difficult with his beard and huge appetite―to steal it back. More poignant is the tale in which the blood of Kvasir―the most sagacious of gods―is turned into a mead that infuses drinkers with poetry. The work culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and rebirth of a new time and people.”
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“Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead.
According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother’s few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.”
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“A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God.
Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again.”
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Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it’s a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.
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“Mary Parsons is broke. Dead broke, really: between an onslaught of medical bills and a mountain of credit card debt, she has been pushed to the brink. Hounded by bill collectors and still plagued by the painful and bizarre symptoms that doctors couldn’t diagnose, Mary seeks relief from a holistic treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia―PAKing, for short. Miraculously, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive. Like so many young adults trying to make ends meet in New York City, Mary scours Craigslist and bulletin boards for a second job, and eventually lands an interview for a high-paying gig that’s even stranger than her symptoms or the New Agey PAKing.
Mary’s new job title is Emotional Girlfriend in the “Girlfriend Experiment”―the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor, Kurt Sky, who has hired a team of biotech researchers to solve the problem of how to build and maintain the perfect romantic relationship, cast – ing himself as the experiment’s only constant. Around Kurt, several women orbit as his girlfriends with spe – cific functions. There’s a Maternal Girlfriend who folds his laundry, an Anger Girlfriend who fights with him, a Mundanity Girlfriend who just hangs around his loft, and a whole team of girlfriends to take care of Intimacy. With so little to lose, Mary falls headfirst into Kurt’s messy, ego-driven simulacrum of human connection.”
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“In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin.
Out of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule—galvanized by the heroic song of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn Joan into a martyr, the consequences are astonishing. And no one—not the rebels, Jean de Men, or even Joan herself—can foresee the way her story and unique gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generations.”
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Step into The Dark Dark, where an award-winning, acclaimed novelist debuts her first collection of short stories and conjures entire universes in just a few pages―conjures, splits in half, mines for humor, destroys with absurdity, and regenerates. In prose that sparkles and haunts, Samantha Hunt playfully pushes the bounds of the expected and fills every corner with vibrant life, imagining numerous ways in which the weird might poke its way through the mundane. Each of these ten haunting, inventive tales brings us to the brink―of creation, mortality and immortality, infidelity and transformation, technological innovation and historical revision, loneliness and communion, and every kind of love.
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“An exquisitely talented young British author makes her American debut with this rapturously acclaimed historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century England, about an intellectually minded young widow, a pious vicar, and a rumored mythical serpent that explores questions about science and religion, skepticism, and faith, independence and love.
When Cora Seaborne’s brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one. Wed at nineteen, this woman of exceptional intelligence and curiosity was ill-suited for the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space in the wake of the funeral, Cora leaves London for a visit to coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year old son, Francis, and the boy’s nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend.
While admiring the sites, Cora learns of an intriguing rumor that has arisen further up the estuary, of a fearsome creature said to roam the marshes claiming human lives. After nearly 300 years, the mythical Essex Serpent is said to have returned, taking the life of a young man on New Year’s Eve. A keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, Cora is immediately enthralled, and certain that what the local people think is a magical sea beast may be a previously undiscovered species. Eager to investigate, she is introduced to local vicar William Ransome. Will, too, is suspicious of the rumors. But unlike Cora, this man of faith is convinced the rumors are caused by moral panic, a flight from true belief.”
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“On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of “the Gardens,” a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent, and unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons: agoraphobic, alcoholic Petya, a brilliant recluse with a tortured mind; Apu, the flamboyant artist, sexually and spiritually omnivorous, famous on twenty blocks; and D, at twenty-two the baby of the family, harboring an explosive secret even from himself. There is no mother, no wife; at least not until Vasilisa, a sleek Russian expat, snags the septuagenarian Nero, becoming the queen to his king—a queen in want of an heir.
Our guide to the Goldens’ world is their neighbor René, an ambitious young filmmaker. Researching a movie about the Goldens, he ingratiates himself into their household. Seduced by their mystique, he is inevitably implicated in their quarrels, their infidelities, and, indeed, their crimes. Meanwhile, like a bad joke, a certain comic-book villain embarks upon a crass presidential run that turns New York upside-down.”
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“The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan’s friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin’s summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman’s fiction is unguarded against both life’s affronts and its beauty–and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.”
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With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.
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“Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.
Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.”
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“In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions―personal, moral, artistic, and practical―as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change.
In this second book of a precise, short, yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one’s life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.”
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Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on.
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Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves unsaid—she’s alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh—that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother—who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood—and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke.
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa’s world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances’s friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi.
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“Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.”
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“A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.
Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.”
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“The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.
There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe.”
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“A psychologist in suburban Cleveland, Dustin is drifting through his forties when he hears the news: His adopted brother, Rusty, is being released from prison. Thirty years ago, Rusty received a life sentence for the massacre of Dustin’s parents, aunt, and uncle. The trial came to epitomize the 1980s hysteria over Satanic cults; despite the lack of physical evidence, the jury believed the outlandish accusations Dustin and his cousin made against Rusty. Now, after DNA analysis has overturned the conviction, Dustin braces for a reckoning.
Meanwhile, one of Dustin’s patients has been plying him with stories of the drowning deaths of a string of drunk college boys. At first Dustin dismisses his patient’s suggestions that a serial killer is at work as paranoid thinking, but as the two embark on an amateur investigation, Dustin starts to believe that there’s more to the deaths than coincidence. Soon he becomes obsessed, crossing all professional boundaries—and putting his own family in harm’s way.”
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“The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades
Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts―first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill―Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back.”
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.” Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, on the Jonestown massacre. They’ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about “new people” like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her–yet she can’t stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria’s perfect new life but her very persona.
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“Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother’s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor—someone, or something, to love.
In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi’s life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. An elegiac distillation, at once intellectual and visceral, of a young woman’s understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades, What We Lose heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction.”
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Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage–after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures–Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time–until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin’s second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does–but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine. An electrifying novel of enormous emotional power, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family.
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“When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word IMPROBABILIA. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. Irritable and disconnected from their new baby boy, at first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go even deeper. Before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act—beyond any parent’s comprehension—and vanishes, seemingly into thin air.
Thus begins Apollo’s odyssey through a world he only thought he understood, to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His quest, which begins when he meets a mysterious stranger who claims to have information about Emma’s whereabouts, takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.”
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“On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove―to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife―“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
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“Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.
Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author’s celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.
Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected and cherished authors.”
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When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
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“Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.
Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero—and in the process, becomes ours as well.
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In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In “The Future Looks Good,” three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in “Light,” a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to “fix the equation of a person” – with rippling, unforeseen repercussions.
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“An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.”
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“Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed.
Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?”
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“The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope.
The tale begins with Anjum—who used to be Aftab—unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her—including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo’s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs’ Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi.”
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“In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there’s a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power–they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.
From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, THE POWER is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.”
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“In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company―a biotech firm now derelict―and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner, Wick, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech.
One day, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump―plant or animal?―but exudes a strange charisma. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth, now lost to rising seas. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet, against her instincts―and definitely against Wick’s wishes―Rachel keeps Borne. She cannot help herself. Borne, learning to speak, learning about the world, is fun to be with, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. She begins to feel a protectiveness she can ill afford.”
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Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.
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“One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.
With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind.
Told from the perspective of both Daniel—as he grows into a directionless young man—and Polly, Ko’s novel gives us one of fiction’s most singular mothers. Loving and selfish, determined and frightened, Polly is forced to make one heartwrenching choice after another.
Set in New York and China, The Leavers is a vivid examination of borders and belonging. It’s a moving story of how a boy comes into his own when everything he loves is taken away, and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of the past. “
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“In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
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“In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant–and that her lover is married–she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan’s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee’s complex and passionate characters–strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis–survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.”
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“Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.
Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.”
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“In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town–and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. “
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In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . .
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“In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi’s past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power—and limitations—of family bonds.
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager.
His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances.”
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“February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.
From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.”
| # | Books | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 4 Lists Each) | |||
| 50 | A Legacy of Spies | John le Carré | Barnes & Noble |
| Indigo | |||
| LA Times | |||
| The Spinoff | |||
| 52 | A Separation | Katie Kitamura | Electric Lit |
| Huffington post | |||
| MPR News | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 53 | Five-Carat Soul | James McBride | BuzzFeed |
| Southern Living | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| The Washington Post | |||
| 54 | Forest Dark | Nicole Krauss | Financial Times |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| The Globe | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 55 | History of Wolves | Emily Fridlund | Hudson Booksellers |
| MPR News | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| theWhat | |||
| 56 | House of Names | Colm Toibin | Boston Globe |
| The Guardian | |||
| The Washington Post | |||
| Today FM | |||
| 57 | Idaho | Emily Ruskovich | BuzzFeed |
| King County Library | |||
| Noted | |||
| The Spinoff | |||
| 58 | Made for Love | Alissa Nutting | Electric Lit |
| Entropy | |||
| Huffington post | |||
| Multnomah County | |||
| 59 | Men Without Women | Haruki Murakami | Noted |
| The Washington Post | |||
| theWhat | |||
| Thrillist | |||
| 60 | Mrs Osmond | John Banville | Financial Times |
| Noted | |||
| The Guardian | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 61 | Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor | Financial Times |
| Independent | |||
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| The Guardian | |||
| 62 | So Much Blue | Percival Everett | LA Times |
| Michael Magras | |||
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| The Seattle Times | |||
| 63 | Sourdough | Robin Sloan | Amazon |
| Barnes & Noble | |||
| Fictional Flowerday | |||
| Southern Living | |||
| 64 | Standard Deviation | Katherine Heiny | Amazon |
| MPR News | |||
| The Washington Post | |||
| theWhat | |||
| 65 | The Bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden | Bookbub Blog |
| Island Books | |||
| Multnomah County | |||
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 66 | The Grip Of It | Jac Jemc | Amber Sparks |
| Chicago Review Of Books | |||
| Entropy | |||
| Vol.1 Brooklyn | |||
| 67 | The Heart’s Invisible Furies | John Boyne | Today FM |
| Amazon | |||
| Chicago Review Of Books | |||
| Fictional Flowerday | |||
| 68 | The Locals | Jonathan Dee | Publishers Weekly |
| The Seattle Times | |||
| The Washington Post | |||
| theWhat | |||
| 69 | The Sparsholt Affair | Alan Hollinghurst | Financial Times |
| Independent | |||
| Noted | |||
| The Guardian | |||
| 70 | The Stone Sky | N.K. Jemisin | Bustle |
| Multnomah County | |||
| Paste | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| (Titles Appear On 3 Lists Each) | |||
| 71 | A Horse Walks into a Bar | David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen | Shelf Awareness |
| The New York Times | |||
| The Washington Post | |||
| 72 | A Kind of Freedom | Margaret Wilkerson Sexton | Multnomah County |
| Southern Living | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 73 | Artemis | Andy Weir | Barnes & Noble |
| Bookbub Blog | |||
| Canadian Gift Guide | |||
| 74 | Broken River | J. Robert Lennon | Electric Lit |
| MPR News | |||
| Noted | |||
| 75 | Days Without End | Sebastian Barry | Multnomah County |
| theWhat | |||
| Time | |||
| 76 | Difficult Women | Roxane Gay | Amber Sparks |
| Chicago Review Of Books | |||
| King County Library | |||
| 77 | Fresh Complaint | Jeffrey Eugenides | The New York Times |
| theWhat | |||
| Today FM | |||
| 78 | Frontier | Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping | Amber Sparks |
| Boston Globe | |||
| Entropy | |||
| 79 | Human Acts | Han Kang | Huffington post |
| Noted | |||
| Vol.1 Brooklyn | |||
| 80 | Less | Andrew Sean Greer | Bookbub Blog |
| Southern Living | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 81 | Motherest | Kristen Iskandrian | Amber Sparks |
| Entropy | |||
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| 82 | Mrs. Fletcher | Tom Perrotta | King County Library |
| LA Times | |||
| theWhat | |||
| 83 | My Favorite Thing Is Monsters | Emil Ferris | King County Library |
| MPR News | |||
| Multnomah County | |||
| 84 | Smile | Roddy Doyle | The Guardian |
| The Washington Post | |||
| Today FM | |||
| 85 | Solar Bones | Mike McCormack | Island Books |
| Noted | |||
| The Spinoff | |||
| 86 | Son of a Trickster | Eden Robinson | Canadian Gift Guide |
| Indigo | |||
| The Globe | |||
| 87 | The Burning Girl | Claire Messud | Boston Globe |
| Financial Times | |||
| LA Times | |||
| 88 | The Dry | Jane Harper | Bookbub Blog |
| King County Library | |||
| Multnomah County | |||
| 89 | The End of Eddy | Édouard Louis, translated from the French by Michael Lucey | Boston Globe |
| The Globe | |||
| The Guardian | |||
| 90 | The Lonely Hearts Hotel | Heather O’Neill | Boston Globe |
| Indigo | |||
| The Globe | |||
| 91 | The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan | Amber Sparks |
| Electric Lit | |||
| Vol.1 Brooklyn | |||
| 92 | The Seventh Function of Language | Laurent Binet | Electric Lit |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| The Economist | |||
| 93 | This Is How It Always Is | Laurie Frankel | Amazon |
| Island Books | |||
| King County Library | |||
| 94 | Turtles All the Way Down | John Green | BuzzFeed |
| Fictional Flowerday | |||
| Today FM | |||
| 95 | Uncommon Type | Tom Hanks | Barnes & Noble |
| Bookbub Blog | |||
| Today FM | |||
| 96 | Universal Harvester | John Darnielle | Multnomah County |
| Paste | |||
| The Washington Post | |||
| 97 | Winter | Ali Smith | Financial Times |
| Independent | |||
| The Guardian | |||
| (Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 98 | A Book of American Martyrs | Joyce Carol Oates | LA Times |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 99 | A Column of Fire | Ken Follett | Barnes & Noble |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 100 | An Unkindness of Ghosts | Solomon Rivers | Bustle |
| Turnaround | |||
| 101 | Attrib. And Other Stories | The Guardian | |
| Turnaround | |||
| 102 | Bad Dreams and Other Stories | Tessa Hadley | Financial Times |
| The New York Times | |||
| 103 | Beautiful Animals | Lawrence Osborne | The New York Times |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 104 | Birdcage Walk | Helen Dunmore | Noted |
| The Guardian | |||
| 105 | Chemistry | Weike Wang | MPR News |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 106 | Dark at the Crossing | Elliot Ackerman | MPR News |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 107 | Don’t Let Go | Harlan Coben | Barnes & Noble |
| Bookbub Blog | |||
| 108 | Eat Only When You’re Hungry | Lindsay Hunter | Amber Sparks |
| Chicago Review Of Books | |||
| 109 | Elmet | Fiona Mozley | Financial Times |
| Thrillist | |||
| 110 | Fierce Kingdom | Gin Phillips | Bustle |
| Indigo | |||
| 111 | Final Girls | Riley Sager | Bookbub Blog |
| Notes In The Margin | |||
| 112 | Glass Houses | Louise Penny | Barnes & Noble |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 113 | H(a)ppy | Nicola Barker | Independent |
| The Guardian | |||
| 114 | How To Behave in a Crowd | Camille Bordas | Chicago Review Of Books |
| Electric Lit | |||
| 115 | How to Survive A Summer | Nick White | Multnomah County |
| Turnaround | |||
| 116 | Iceland | Dominic Hoey | Noted |
| The Spinoff | |||
| 117 | Isadora | Amelia Gray | Amber Sparks |
| Entropy | |||
| 118 | La Belle Sauvage: Book of Dust Trilogy | Philip Pullman | The Spinoff |
| Today FM | |||
| 119 | Large Animals | Jess Arndt | BuzzFeed |
| Entropy | |||
| 120 | Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk | Kathleen Rooney | Chicago Review Of Books |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 121 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Multnomah County |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 122 | Madame Zero | Sarah Hall | The Guardian |
| Thrillist | |||
| 123 | Midwinter Break | Bernard McLaverty | The Guardian |
| Today FM | |||
| 124 | My Not So Perfect Life | Sophie Kinsella | Goodreads |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 125 | Origin | Dan Brown | Barnes & Noble |
| Canadian Gift Guide | |||
| 126 | Rabbit Cake | Annie Hartnett | Chicago Review Of Books |
| MPR News | |||
| 127 | Salt Houses | Hala Alyan | Bustle |
| Large Hearted Boy | |||
| 128 | Since We Fell | Dennis Lehane | Barnes & Noble |
| King County Library | |||
| 129 | Sleeps Standing: Moetū | Witi Ihimaera with Hēmi Kelly | Noted |
| The Spinoff | |||
| 130 | Spoils | Brian Van Reet | Noted |
| The Guardian | |||
| 131 | Strange Weather | Joe Hill | Today FM |
| Barnes & Noble | |||
| 132 | The Alice Network | Kate Quinn | King County Library |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 133 | The Book of Dust | Philip Pullman | Multnomah County |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 134 | The Child Finder | Rene Denfeld | Barnes & Noble |
| Indigo | |||
| 135 | The City Always Wins | Omar Robert Hamilton | Boston Globe |
| Noted | |||
| 136 | The Dark Flood Rises | Margaret Drabble | The New York Times |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 137 | The Dinner Party and Other Stories | Joshua Ferris | The New York Times |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 138 | The Disintegrations | Alistair McCartney | Entropy |
| The Seattle Times | |||
| 139 | The Epiphany Machine | David Burr Gerrard | Large Hearted Boy |
| Vol.1 Brooklyn | |||
| 140 | The Floating World | C. Morgan Bapst | Dallas News |
| Large Hearted Boy | |||
| 141 | The Golden Legend | Nadeem Aslam | Paste |
| The Economist | |||
| 142 | The Good People | Hannah Kent | Bookbub Blog |
| Today FM | |||
| 143 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Multnomah County |
| Today FM | |||
| 144 | The Impossible Fortress | Jason Rekulak | Amazon |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 145 | The King Is Always Above the People | Daniel Alarcón | Michael Magras |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 146 | The Late Show | Michael Connelly | Barnes & Noble |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 147 | The Lie of the Land | Amanda Craig | Financial Times |
| The Guardian | |||
| 148 | The Marsh King’s Daughter | Karen Dionne | Multnomah County |
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 149 | The Midnight Line | Lee Child | Barnes & Noble |
| Today FM | |||
| 150 | The Mountain | Paul Yoon | Publishers Weekly |
| Southern Living | |||
| 151 | The Night Ocean | Paul La Farge | Multnomah County |
| The Seattle Times | |||
| 152 | The Red Barn | Nat Baldwin | Amber Sparks |
| Entropy | |||
| 153 | The Rules of Magic | Alice Hoffman | Barnes & Noble |
| Bookbub Blog | |||
| 154 | The Stars Are Fire | Anita Shreve | Multnomah County |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 155 | The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley | Hannah Tinti | Paste |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 156 | The Week | Joanna Ruocco | Amber Sparks |
| Entropy | |||
| 157 | The Women in the Castle | Jessica Shattuck | Barnes & Noble |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 158 | Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country | Chavisa Woods | Multnomah County |
| Turnaround | |||
| 159 | Things We Lost in the Fire | Mariana Enríquez, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell | Boston Globe |
| Entropy | |||
| 160 | Wait Till You See Me Dance | Deb Olin Unferth | Amber Sparks |
| Entropy | |||
| 161 | We That Are Young | The Guardian | |
| Turnaround | |||
| 162 | What the Hell Did I Just Read? | David Wong | Fictional Flowerday |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 163 | When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife | Meena Kandasamy | Financial Times |
| The Guardian | |||
| 164 | When the English Fall | David Williams | Chicago Review Of Books |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 165 | Who Is Rich? | Matthew Klam | The New York Times |
| The Washington Post | |||
| 166 | Woman №17 | Edan Lepucki | The Washington Post |
| theWhat | |||
| 167 | Young Jane Young | Gabrielle Zevin | MPR News |
| The Washington Post | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
| 168 | 2084: The End of the World | Turnaround | |
| 169 | 5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior | Mark Siegel, et al | Multnomah County |
| 170 | A BOY IN WINTER | Rachel Seiffert | The New York Times |
| 171 | A Boy Named Trout | Mercy Strongheart | Multnomah County |
| 172 | A Good Day for a Hat | T. Nat Fuller | Multnomah County |
| 173 | A Life of Adventure and Delight | Huffington post | |
| 174 | A Long Way From Home | Peter Carey | Readings |
| 175 | A Million Junes | Emily Henry | Fictional Flowerday |
| 176 | A Piece of the World | Christina Baker Kline | Bookbub Blog |
| 177 | A Plague of Giants | Kevin Hearne | Notes In The Margin |
| 178 | A Red Peace (Starfire #1) | Spencer Ellsworth | Multnomah County |
| 179 | A Small Revolution | Jimin Han | Entropy |
| 180 | A Working Woman | Elvira Navarro, trans. from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney | Publishers Weekly |
| 181 | Admission Requirements | Phoebe Wang | The Globe |
| 182 | Affections | Rodrigo Hasbún | Large Hearted Boy |
| 183 | After the Flare | Deji Bryce Olukotun | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 184 | Akata Warrior | Nnedi Okorafor | Multnomah County |
| 185 | Alfie | Thyra Heder | Multnomah County |
| 186 | All Our Wrong Todays | Elan Mastai | Multnomah County |
| 187 | All Systems Red: The murderbot diaries | Martha Wells | Multnomah County |
| 188 | All the Way to Havana | Margarita Engle | Multnomah County |
| 189 | All’s Faire in Middle School | Victoria Jamieson | Multnomah County |
| 190 | Always Happy Hour | Mary Miller | Amber Sparks |
| 191 | Amatka | Karin Tidbeck | Multnomah County |
| 192 | An Awkward Age | Francesca Segal | Financial Times |
| 193 | An Occasional History | Laura Davenport | Entropy |
| 194 | Another Castle: Grimoire | Andrew Wheeler | Multnomah County |
| 195 | Arabella and the battle of Venus | David D. Levine. | Multnomah County |
| 196 | As a God Might Be | Turnaround | |
| 197 | Assisted Living | Gary Lutz | Entropy |
| 198 | Augustown | Kei Miller | Publishers Weekly |
| 199 | Austral | Paul McAuley | The Economist |
| 200 | Autonomous | Annalee Newitz | Bookbub Blog |
| 201 | Baby | Annaleese Jochems | Noted |
| 202 | Bad Endings | Carleigh Baker | The Globe |
| 203 | Bandette. [Volume three], In the house of the green mask | Paul Tobin and Coleen Coover | Multnomah County |
| 204 | Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance | Ruth Emmie Lang | Fictional Flowerday |
| 205 | Before Everything | Victoria Redel | Entropy |
| 206 | Before We Were Yours | Lisa Wingate | Barnes & Noble |
| 207 | Belladonna | Daša Drndic | Thrillist |
| 208 | Bellevue Square | Michael Redhill | The Globe |
| 209 | Best Worst American | Juan Martinez | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 210 | Big Cat, Little Cat | Elisha Cooper | Multnomah County |
| 211 | Big Lonesome | Joseph Scapellato | Amber Sparks |
| 212 | Black Marks on the White Page edited | Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti | The Spinoff |
| 213 | Black Moses | Alain Mabanckou | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 214 | Blameless | Claudio Magris, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel | Boston Globe |
| 215 | Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich | Norman Ohler | Notes In The Margin |
| 216 | Boo Who? | Ben Clanton | Multnomah County |
| 217 | Book of Formation | Turnaround | |
| 218 | Brother | David Chariandy | The Globe |
| 219 | Buckskin Cocaine | Erika T. Wurth | Entropy |
| 220 | By Your Side | Kasie West | Multnomah County |
| 221 | Careers for Women | Joanna Scott | The Seattle Times |
| 222 | Castle Cross the Magnet Carter | Turnaround | |
| 223 | Celine | Peter Heller | MPR News |
| 224 | Charlie & Mouse | Laurel Snyder | Multnomah County |
| 225 | Charlotte the Scientist is Squished | Camille Andros | Multnomah County |
| 226 | Chasing the King of Hearts | Hanna Krall, trans. from the Polish by Philip Boehm | Publishers Weekly |
| 227 | Chew: Sour Grapes | John Layman, Rob Guillory | Multnomah County |
| 228 | CHRISTMAS DAYS: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days | Jeanette Winterson | The New York Times |
| 229 | Class | Francesco Pacifico | Paste |
| 230 | Cockfosters | Helen Simpson | Boston Globe |
| 231 | Collected Stories | Leonora Carrington | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 232 | Compass | Mathias Enard | The Economist |
| 233 | Confessions of a Domestic Failure | Bunmi Laditan | Bookbub Blog |
| 234 | Crown: An ode to the Fresh Cut | Derrick Barnes | Multnomah County |
| 235 | Crybaby Lane | Laura Ellen Scott | Amber Sparks |
| 236 | DANCE OF THE JAKARANDA | Peter Kimani | The New York Times |
| 237 | Dear Cyborgs | Eugene Lim | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 238 | Decline & Fall on Savage Street | Fiona Farrell | Noted |
| 239 | Deep Freeze | John Sandford | Barnes & Noble |
| 240 | Demi-Gods | Eliza Robertson | The Globe |
| 241 | Dept. H Volume 1: Murder Six Miles Deep | Matt Kindt | Multnomah County |
| 242 | Descender. Book four, Orbital mechanics | Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen | Multnomah County |
| 243 | Devil’s Day | Andrew Michael Hurley | Financial Times |
| 244 | Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic | Armand Baltazar | Multnomah County |
| 245 | Dinner at the Center of the Earth | Nathan Englander | LA Times |
| 246 | Djinn City | Saad Z. Hossain | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 247 | Down Below | Leonora Carrington | Entropy |
| 248 | Dragons Love Tacos 2: the Sequel | Rubin Adam | Multnomah County |
| 249 | Dunbar | Edward St. Aubyn | Michael Magras |
| 250 | Earthly Remains | Donna Leon | Barnes & Noble |
| 251 | Eastman Was Here | Turnaround | |
| 252 | Eggshells | Caitriona Lally | Amazon |
| 253 | Eight Ghosts | Turnaround | |
| 254 | Electric Arches | Chicago Tribune | |
| 255 | Emma in the Night | Wendy Walker | Notes In The Margin |
| 256 | Empty Set | Verónica Gerber Bicecci | Entropy |
| 257 | End Game | David Baldacci | Barnes & Noble |
| 258 | Endgame | Ahmet Altan. Translated from the Turkish by Alexander Dawe | The Washington Post |
| 259 | Enfermario | Gabriela Torres Olivares | Entropy |
| 260 | Enigma Variations | André Aciman | The Seattle Times |
| 261 | Entropy In Bloom | Jeremy Robert Johnson | Multnomah County |
| 262 | Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows | Balli Kaur Jaswal | Shelf Awareness |
| 263 | Every Last Lie | Mary Kubica | Bookbub Blog |
| 264 | Everybody’s Son | Thrity Umrigar | Multnomah County |
| 265 | EXO | Fonda Lee | Multnomah County |
| 266 | FAST | Jorie Graham | The New York Times |
| 267 | First Love | The Guardian | |
| 268 | First Person | Richard Flanagan | Noted |
| 269 | First Rule of Punk | Celia C. Perez | Multnomah County |
| 270 | Fletcher of the Bounty: A Novel | Graeme Lay | Noted |
| 271 | Flights | Olga Tokarczuk | The Guardian |
| 272 | Flow: Whanganui River Poems | Airini Beautrais | The Spinoff |
| 273 | Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared | Alison Wilgus | Multnomah County |
| 274 | For Isabel: A Mandala | Antonio Tabucchi, trans. from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris | Publishers Weekly |
| 275 | Fugue States | Pasha Malla | The Globe |
| 276 | Genevieves | Henry Hoke | Entropy |
| 277 | Genuine Fraud | E. Lockhart | Multnomah County |
| 278 | Ghachar Ghochar | Vivek Shanbhag, trans. from the Kannada by Srinath Perur | Publishers Weekly |
| 279 | Gifted | John Daniel | Multnomah County |
| 280 | Ginny Moon: A Novel | Benjamin Ludwig | Amazon |
| 281 | GIVING GODHEAD | Dylan Krieger | The New York Times |
| 282 | Glory Days | Melissa Fraterrigo | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 283 | Go, Went, Gone | Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky | Boston Globe |
| 284 | Golden Hill : A Novel of Old New York | Francis Spufford | The Washington Post |
| 285 | Goldfish Ghost | Lemony Snicket | Multnomah County |
| 286 | Grace | Paul Lynch | Southern Living |
| 287 | Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story | JaNay Brown-Wood | Multnomah County |
| 288 | Gravity Well | Melanie Joosten | Readings |
| 289 | Grief Cottage | Gail Godwin | Publishers Weekly |
| 290 | Hardcore Twenty-Four | Janet Evanovich | Barnes & Noble |
| 291 | Harmless Like You | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Large Hearted Boy |
| 292 | Heather, the Totality | Matthew Weiner | Barnes & Noble |
| 293 | Heaven’s Crooked Finger | Hank Early | Multnomah County |
| 294 | Hell and High Water | Tanya Landman | Multnomah County |
| 295 | Heloise | Mandy Hager | Noted |
| 296 | Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker | Gregory Maguire | Barnes & Noble |
| 297 | Himself | theWhat | |
| 298 | Holiday Spice | Samantha Chase | Multnomah County |
| 299 | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Financial Times |
| 300 | House. Tree. Person. | Catriona McPherson | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 301 | Houses of Ravicka | Renee Gladman | Entropy |
| 302 | How To Be A Hero | Florence Parry Heide | Multnomah County |
| 303 | Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay | Notes In The Margin |
| 304 | I Am Bat | Morag Hood | Multnomah County |
| 305 | I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter | Erika L. Sanchez | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 306 | I Am the Brother of XX | Fleur Jaeggy, trans. from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff | Publishers Weekly |
| 307 | I Remember Nightfall | Marosa di Giorgio, collection translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas | Amber Sparks |
| 308 | I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking | Leyna Krow | Huffington post |
| 309 | Ice | Anna Kavan | Entropy |
| 310 | If My Moon Was your Sun | Andreas Steinhöfel | Multnomah County |
| 311 | Improvement | Joan Silber | The Washington Post |
| 312 | In the Cage | Kevin Hardcastle | The Globe |
| 313 | In the Distance | Hernán Díaz | Publishers Weekly |
| 314 | In the Midst of Winter | Isabel Allende | Barnes & Noble |
| 315 | In your Hands | Weatherford, Carole Boston | Multnomah County |
| 316 | Infinite Ground | MacInnes, Martin | Multnomah County |
| 317 | Inheritance From Mother | Minae Mizumura. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter | The Washington Post |
| 318 | Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus | Dusti Bowling | Multnomah County |
| 319 | IQ | Joe Ide | theWhat |
| 320 | Is God Is | Aleshea Harris | Entropy |
| 321 | Jabari Jumps | Gaia Cornwall | Multnomah County |
| 322 | Jane, Unlimited | Kristin Cashore | Multnomah County |
| 323 | Jean Harley was Here | Heather Taylor Johnson | Readings |
| 324 | Johnson | Dean Parker | Noted |
| 325 | Ka | John Crowley | LA Times |
| 326 | Kaijumax Season Two, The Seamy Underbelly | Cannon, Zander | Multnomah County |
| 327 | Kintu | Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | Publishers Weekly |
| 328 | Last Gentleman Standing | Jane Ashford | Multnomah County |
| 329 | Leap of Faith | Jenny Pattrick | Noted |
| 330 | Lifting | Damien Wilkins | Noted |
| 331 | Lightswitches Are My Kryptonite | Turnaround | |
| 332 | Little Red Cat Who Ran Away and Learned His ABCS (the hard way) | Patrick McDonnell | Multnomah County |
| 333 | Little Sister | Barbara Gowdy | The Globe |
| 334 | Long Black Veil | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Multnomah County |
| 335 | Lost in September | Kathleen Winter | The Globe |
| 336 | Love & Fame | Susie Boyt | Financial Times |
| 337 | Lucia the Luchadora | Cynthia Leonor Garza, | Multnomah County |
| 338 | Lucky Boy | Turnaround | |
| 339 | Lucky Supreme | Jeff Johnson | theWhat |
| 340 | Man Overboard | J.A. Jance | Multnomah County |
| 341 | Man’s Wars & Wickedness | Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz | Entropy |
| 342 | Mask of Shadows | Linsey Miller | Multnomah County |
| 343 | Me Tall, You Small | Lilli L’Arronge | Multnomah County |
| 344 | Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore | Matthew Sullivan | King County Library |
| 345 | Midnight at the Electric | Anderson, Jodi Lynn | Multnomah County |
| 346 | Midnight Line | Lee Child | The Spinoff |
| 347 | Milk Island | Rhydian Thomas | The Spinoff |
| 348 | Minds of Winter | Ed O’Loughlin | The Globe |
| 349 | Minecraft: The Island | Max Brooks | Barnes & Noble |
| 350 | Mischling | Affinity Konar | Independent |
| 351 | Mississippi Blood | Greg Iles | Barnes & Noble |
| 352 | Moby Dick | Chaboute | Multnomah County |
| 353 | Modern Gods | Nick Laird | Financial Times |
| 354 | Modern Love | Constance DeJong | Entropy |
| 355 | Moonrise | Sarah Crossan | Today FM |
| 356 | Mother of All Pigs | Malu Halasa | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 357 | My Ariel | Sina Queyras | The Globe |
| 358 | My Cat Yugoslavia | Pajtim Statovci, translated from the Finnish by David Hackston | Boston Globe |
| 359 | My Heart Hemmed In | Marie NDiaye | Entropy |
| 360 | My Pictures After the Storm | Veillé, Éric | Multnomah County |
| 361 | My Sister’s Bones | Nuala Ellwood | Multnomah County |
| 362 | New American Best Friend | Turnaround | |
| 363 | Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson | The Globe | |
| 364 | Niko Draws a Feeling | Bob Raczka | Multnomah County |
| 365 | Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan | Ruth Gilligan | Shelf Awareness |
| 366 | No One Can Pronounce My Name | Rakesh Satyal | Entropy |
| 367 | No One Is Coming to Save Us | Stephanie Powell Watts | The Washington Post |
| 368 | Noisy Night | Mac Barnett | Multnomah County |
| 369 | Not One Day | Anne Garréta | Entropy |
| 370 | Notes of A Crocodile | Qiu Miaojin | Entropy |
| 371 | Now | Antoinette Portis | Multnomah County |
| 372 | Oathbringer | Brandon Sanderson | Paste |
| 373 | Odd and True | Cat Winters | Multnomah County |
| 374 | Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling | Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen | Today FM |
| 375 | On a Magical Do Nothing Day | Beatrice Alemagna | Multnomah County |
| 376 | One Mixed-up Night | Catherine Newman | Multnomah County |
| 377 | One of the Boys: A Novel | Daniel Magariel | Amazon |
| 378 | Our Little Secret | Roz Nay | Canadian Gift Guide |
| 379 | Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery | Plum Sykes | Multnomah County |
| 380 | Pashmina | Nidhi Chanani | Multnomah County |
| 381 | Piecing Me Together | Renée Watson | Multnomah County |
| 382 | Princess Cora and the Crocodile | Laura Amy Schlitz | Multnomah County |
| 383 | Professional Crocodile | Giovanna Zoboli | Multnomah County |
| 384 | Provenance | Ann Leckie | Multnomah County |
| 385 | Rat queens. Volume four, High fantasies | Kurtis J. Wiebe and Owen Gieni | Multnomah County |
| 386 | Real Friends | Shannon Hale | Multnomah County |
| 387 | Record of a Night Too Brief | Hiromi Kawakami | Thrillist |
| 388 | Release | Patrick Ness | Multnomah County |
| 389 | Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3) | Kevin Kwan | Goodreads |
| 390 | Room Little Darker | The Guardian | |
| 391 | Rotten Row | Petina Gappah | Noted |
| 392 | Running With Raven | Laura Lee Huttenbach | Notes In The Margin |
| 393 | Saga, vol. 7 | Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples | Multnomah County |
| 394 | Saints and Misfits | S.K. Ali | Multnomah County |
| 395 | Saints for All Occasions | theWhat | |
| 396 | Savage Theories | Pola Oloixarac, translated from the Spanish by Roy Kesey | Boston Globe |
| 397 | Scarborough | Catherine Hernandez | The Globe |
| 398 | Second Chance Girl | Susan Mallery | Bookbub Blog |
| 399 | See What I Have Done | Sarah Schmidt | Publishers Weekly |
| 400 | See You in September | Charity Norman | Noted |
| 401 | See You in the Cosmos | Jack Cheng | Multnomah County |
| 402 | Selection Day | Aravind Adiga | The New York Times |
| 403 | Selection Day | Aravind Adiga | The Washington Post |
| 404 | Shadowbahn | Steve Erickson | LA Times |
| 405 | Shadowbahn | Steve Erickson | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 406 | shifting bodies | Surreal epidemics | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 407 | Short Century | David Burr Gerrard’s debut | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 408 | Silk Flowers | Meghan Lamb | Entropy |
| 409 | Since I Laid My Burden Down | Brontez Purnell | Shelf Awareness |
| 410 | SIX FOUR | Hideo Yokoyama. Translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies | The New York Times |
| 411 | Sleeping Beauties | Stephen King | Barnes & Noble |
| 412 | Smells Like Finn Spirit | Randy Henderson | Multnomah County |
| 413 | So Much Love | Rebecca Rosenblum | The Globe |
| 414 | Sodden Downstream | Brannavan Gnanalingam | The Spinoff |
| 415 | Sonata In K | Karen An-Hwei Lee | Entropy |
| 416 | Songy Of Paradise | Gary Panter | LA Times |
| 417 | South Pole Station | Ashley Shelby | Shelf Awareness |
| 418 | Spaceman of Bohemia | theWhat | |
| 419 | Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth | Cottrell Boyce, Frank | Multnomah County |
| 420 | Startup | Doree Shafrir | Multnomah County |
| 421 | Strange Heart Beating | Eli Goldstone | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 422 | Strange the Dreamer | Laini Taylor | Multnomah County |
| 423 | Such Small Hands | The Guardian | |
| 424 | Sudden Death | Alvaro Enrigue | Independent |
| 425 | Swimmer Among The Stars | Hudson Booksellers | |
| 426 | Sympathy | Olivia Sudjic | Large Hearted Boy |
| 427 | Tales of Falling and Flying | Ben Loory | Entropy |
| 428 | Temporary People | Deepak Unnukrisksn | Amber Sparks |
| 429 | Tess | Kirsten McDougall | The Spinoff |
| 430 | The Accomplished Guest | Ann Beattie | The Washington Post |
| 431 | The Australian | Emma Smith-Stevens | Large Hearted Boy |
| 432 | The Bad Luck Bride | Janna MacGregor | King County Library |
| 433 | The Barrowfields | Phillip Lewis | Multnomah County |
| 434 | The Blood Miracles | Lisa McInerney | Financial Times |
| 435 | The Bone Witch | Rin Chupeco | Multnomah County |
| 436 | The Book of Polly | Kathy Hepinstall | Multnomah County |
| 437 | The Break | Marian Keyes | Today FM |
| 438 | The Breakdown | B. A. Paris | Barnes & Noble |
| 439 | The Carpenter | Bruna Barros | Multnomah County |
| 440 | The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir | Jennifer Ryan | theWhat |
| 441 | The Child | Fiona Barton | Bookbub Blog |
| 442 | The Complete Ballet | John Haskell | Entropy |
| 443 | The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington | Leonora Carrington | Entropy |
| 444 | The Corpses of the Future | Lynn Crosbie | The Globe |
| 445 | The Cuban Affair | Nelson DeMille | Barnes & Noble |
| 446 | The Dark and Other Love Stories | Deborah Willis | The Globe |
| 447 | The Dark Lake | Sarah Bailey | Barnes & Noble |
| 448 | The Destroyers | Christopher Bollen | Paste |
| 449 | The Doll’s Alphabet | Camilla Grudova | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 450 | The Dying Detective | Leif G.W.Persson | Multnomah County |
| 451 | The End We Start From | Megan Hunter | MPR News |
| 452 | The Epic Crush of Genie Lo | F.C. Lee | Multnomah County |
| 453 | The Evening Road | Laird Hunt | Financial Times |
| 454 | The Fall Guy | James Lasdun | Financial Times |
| 455 | The Fire | Night | Multnomah County |
| 456 | The Force | Don Winslow | Dallas News |
| 457 | The Future Won’t Be Long | Jarett Kobek | The Portable Infinite |
| 458 | The Futures | theWhat | |
| 459 | The Gauntlet | Karuna Riazi | Multnomah County |
| 460 | The Girl in Green | Derek B. Miller | Shelf Awareness |
| 461 | The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye | David Lagercrantz | Barnes & Noble |
| 462 | The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes | David Handler | Multnomah County |
| 463 | The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings | Juan Rulfo | Entropy |
| 464 | The Golden Hour | T. Greenwood | Multnomah County |
| 465 | The Good Daughter: A Novel | Karin Slaughter | Barnes & Noble |
| 466 | The Gospel According to Blindboy Boatclub | Blindboy Boatclub | Today FM |
| 467 | The Graybar Hotel | Curtis Dawkins | Thrillist |
| 468 | The Gurugu Pledge | Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 469 | The Heirs | theWhat | |
| 470 | The Hope Fault | Tracy Farr | Noted |
| 471 | The Identicals | Elin Hilderbrand | Goodreads |
| 472 | The Imposter | Javier Cercas | Independent |
| 473 | The Jane Austen Project | Kathleen Flynn | Multnomah County |
| 474 | The Keeper of Lost Things | Ruth Hogan | Goodreads |
| 475 | The Ladies | Sara Veglahn | Entropy |
| 476 | The Last Ballad | Wiley Cash | Multnomah County |
| 477 | The Last Days of Magic | Turnaround | |
| 478 | The Last Hours | Minette Walters | Noted |
| 479 | The Last Mrs. Parrish | Liv Constantine | Multnomah County |
| 480 | The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors | Drew Daywalt | Multnomah County |
| 481 | The Life to Come | Michelle de Kretser | The Spinoff |
| 482 | The Little Big Things | Henry Fraser | Bookbub Blog |
| 483 | The Lockpicker | Leonard Chang | Multnomah County |
| 484 | The Long Dry | Cynan Jones | Multnomah County |
| 485 | The Luckiest Scar on Earth | Ana Maria Spagna | Multnomah County |
| 486 | The Lucky Ones | Julianne Pachico | Paste |
| 487 | The Misfortune of Marion Palm | Emily Culliton | Canadian Gift Guide |
| 488 | The Necessary Angel | CK Stead | Noted |
| 489 | The New Animals | Pip Adam | The Spinoff |
| 490 | The North Water | Ian McGuire | theWhat |
| 491 | The Original Face | Guillaume Morissette | The Globe |
| 492 | The Passion of Woo & Isolde | Jennifer Tseng | Entropy |
| 493 | The Possessions | Sara Flannery Murphy | Multnomah County |
| 494 | The President’s Glasses | Peter Donnelly | Today FM |
| 495 | The President’s Gardens | The Guardian | |
| 496 | The Prey of Gods | Nicky Drayden | Multnomah County |
| 497 | The Protester Has Been Released | Janet Sarbanes | Entropy |
| 498 | The Rat Catcher’s Olympics | Colin Cotterill | Multnomah County |
| 499 | The Readymade Thief | Augustus Rose | Chicago Review Of Books |
| 500 | The Reason You’re Alive | Matthew Quick | Multnomah County |
| 501 | The Redemption of Galen Pike | Carys Davies | The Globe |
| 502 | The River Bank | Kij Johnson. Illustrated by Kathleen Jennings | The Washington Post |
| 503 | The River of Kings | Taylor Brown | Paste |
| 504 | The Road Home | Katie Cotton | Multnomah County |
| 505 | The Rooster Bar | John Grisham | Barnes & Noble |
| 506 | The Scariest Book Ever | Bob Shea | Multnomah County |
| 507 | The Secret Room | Kazim Ali | Entropy |
| 508 | The Shades of Magic series | V.E. Schwab | Fictional Flowerday |
| 509 | The Shoe on the Roof | Will Ferguson | The Globe |
| 510 | The Sinner | Turnaround | |
| 511 | The Stars Beneath Our Feet | Moore, David Barclay | Multnomah County |
| 512 | The Stolen Bicycle | Turnaround | |
| 513 | The Stolen Marriage: A Novel | Diane Chamberlain | Barnes & Noble |
| 514 | The Story of Arthur Truluv | Elizabeth Berg | Bookbub Blog |
| 515 | The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter | Theodora Goss | King County Library |
| 516 | The Sun and Her Flowers | Rupi Kaur | The Globe |
| 517 | The Sun Is Also A Star | Nicola Yoon | Multnomah County |
| 518 | The Talented Ribkins | Ladee Hubbard | Multnomah County |
| 519 | The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories | Osama Alomar | Amber Sparks |
| 520 | The Thing About Love | Julie James | Multnomah County |
| 521 | The Thirst | Jo Nesbø | Paste |
| 522 | The Town | Shaun Prescott | Readings |
| 523 | The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx | Tara Bergin | The Spinoff |
| 524 | The Truth About Me | Louise Marburg | Entropy |
| 525 | The Twenty Days of Turin | Giorgio de Maria | Vol.1 Brooklyn |
| 526 | The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl beats up the Marvel Universe! | Ryan North and Erica Henderson | Multnomah County |
| 527 | The Vanishing Princess | Jenny Diski | Amber Sparks |
| 528 | The Wanderers | theWhat | |
| 529 | The Way Home in the Night | Akiko Miyakoshi | Multnomah County |
| 530 | The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish | Amazon |
| 531 | The Wish Granter | C. J. Redwine | Multnomah County |
| 532 | THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 | Ruth Ware | Indigo |
| 533 | The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals | Robert Kloss | Amber Sparks |
| 534 | The Wonderous Science, Book 1 of the mysteries of the Laurel Society | Brian & Josie Parker | Multnomah County |
| 535 | The Word is Murder | Anthony Horowitz | Today FM |
| 536 | The World Goes On | László Krasznahorkai | Entropy |
| 537 | The Wrong Train | Jeremy de Quidt | Multnomah County |
| 538 | The Year of the Comet | Sergel Levedev | Shelf Awareness |
| 539 | They Both Die at the End | Adam Silvera | Fictional Flowerday |
| 540 | This Accident of Being Lost | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | The Globe |
| 541 | This is Memorial Device | David Keenan | The Spinoff |
| 542 | Thornhill | Pam Smy | Multnomah County |
| 543 | TIES | Domenico Starnone. Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri | The New York Times |
| 544 | Tin Man | Sarah Winman | Today FM |
| 545 | Tornado Weather | Deborah E. Kennedy | Multnomah County |
| 546 | Touch | Courtney Maum | Electric Lit |
| 547 | Town is | the Sea | Multnomah County |
| 548 | Traitor to the Throne | Alwyn Hamilton | Notes In The Margin |
| 549 | Turn Loose our Death Rays and Kill them All!: The complete works of Fletcher Hanks | Fletcher Hanks | Multnomah County |
| 550 | Twenty Days of Turin | Giorgio DeMaria | Multnomah County |
| 551 | Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier | Mark Frost | Thrillist |
| 552 | Two Kinds of Truth | Michael Connelly | Barnes & Noble |
| 553 | Vicious Circle | C. J. Box | Barnes & Noble |
| 554 | Waking Gods | Sylvain Neuvel | Paste |
| 555 | WAKING LIONS | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Translated by Sondra Silverston | The New York Times |
| 556 | Watch Me Disappear | Janelle Brown | Barnes & Noble |
| 557 | We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter | Bookbub Blog |
| 558 | We Were Witches | Turnaround | |
| 559 | We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night | Joel Thomas Hynes | The Globe |
| 560 | Well, That Was Awkward | Rachel Vail | Multnomah County |
| 561 | When Dimple Met Rishi | Sandhya Menon | Multnomah County |
| 562 | When Light is Like Water | Molly McCloskey | Today FM |
| 563 | Where’s Halmoni? | Julie Kim | Multnomah County |
| 564 | WHEREAS | Layli Long Soldier | The New York Times |
| 565 | Wilde in Love: The Wildes of Lindow Castle | Eloisa James | Multnomah County |
| 566 | Within the Sanctuary of Wings | Marie Brennan | Multnomah County |
| 567 | Wolf in the Snow | Matthew Cordell | Multnomah County |
| 568 | Wonder Valley | Ivy Pochoda | LA Times |
| 569 | Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997 Edited | Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian | Entropy |
| 570 | You Bring the Distant Near | Perkins, Mitali | Multnomah County |
| 571 | You Should Have Left | Daniel Kehlmann | Multnomah County |
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| Amazon | Best literature and fiction of 2017 |
| Amber Sparks | Best (Subjective) Books of 2017 |
| Barnes & Noble | The Best Books of 2017 |
| Book Riot | THEFOLLOWINGAREBOOKRIOT’SBESTBOOKSOF2017. |
| Bookbub Blog | 25 Books to Read Before Year’s End, According to Bestselling Authors |
| Boston Globe | The best books of 2017 |
| Bustle | The 17 Best Fiction Books Of 2017 |
| BuzzFeed | The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2017 |
| Canadian Gift Guide | HOLIDAY READS: BEST FICTION BOOKS 2017 |
| Chicago Review Of Books | The Best Fiction Books of 2017 |
| Chicago Tribune | Best books of 2017: Fiction and nonfiction that moved literature forward |
| Dallas News | From East Texas to Jonestown and beyond: Our culture critic names his 10 favorite books of 2017 |
| Electric Lit | Electric Literature’s 25 Best Novels of 2017 |
| Entropy | BEST OF 2017: BEST FICTION BOOKS |
| Fictional Flowerday | Best books of 2017… according to me! |
| Financial Times | Best books of 2017: Fiction |
| Goodreads | Best Fiction |
| Hudson Booksellers | Best Books of 2017 |
| Huffington post | The Best Fiction Books Of 2017 |
| Independent | 9 best fiction books of 2017 |
| Indigo | TOP 10 FICTION OF 2017 |
| Island Books | Our Best of the Year 2017: Fiction |
| King County Library | Best Fiction 2017 |
| Kirkus | Best Literary Fiction of 2017 |
| LA Times | Best books of 2017: The best fiction |
| Large Hearted Boy | Favorite Novels of 2017 |
| Michael Magras | My Favorite Books from 2017 |
| MPR News | The best books to give and get: Fiction picks of 2017 |
| Multnomah County | The Best Books of 2017 |
| Noted | The 100 Best Books of 2017 |
| Notes In The Margin | Our Favorite Books of 2017 |
| Paste | The 25 Best Novels of 2017 |
| Publishers Weekly | Best Fiction |
| Readings | The best fiction books of 2017 |
| Shelf Awareness | Our Best Adult Books of 2017 |
| Sit Tableside | Favorite Books of 2017 |
| Southern Living | The Best Books of 2017 |
| The Economist | Books of the Year 2017 |
| The Globe | The Globe 100 |
| The Guardian | The best fiction of 2017 |
| The New York Times | 100 Notable Books of 2017 |
| The Portable Infinite | Best Books of 2017 |
| The Seattle Times | Noteworthy books of 2017: general fiction |
| The Spinoff | The best books of 2017: the 20 best novels |
| The Washington Post | 50 notable works of fiction in 2017 |
| theWhat | 25 Best Fiction Books 2017 |
| Thrillist | THE BEST BOOKS OF 2017 TO GIVE TO ANYONE ON YOUR LIST |
| Time | The Top 10 Novels of 2017 |
| Today FM | The Best Fiction Books Of The Year |
| Turnaround | Favourite Fiction 2017 |
| Vol.1 Brooklyn | Vol.1 Brooklyn’s 2017 Favorites: Fiction |
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