# The New York Times' 10 best books of 2017

The ten books picked by the New York Times Book Review as the best of 2017: five novels and five non-fiction titles.

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- Apr 19, 2021 · leitora_mineiro
- https://even.best/en/l/1595/the-new-york-times-10-best-books-of-2017

## Top 10

1. **Exit West — Mohsin Hamid** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Novel of refugees and magic doors.
2. **Autumn — Ali Smith** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
3. **Pachinko — Min Jin Lee** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel of a Korean family in Japan.
4. **The Power — Naomi Alderman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dystopian novel.
5. **Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
6. **The Evolution of Beauty — Richard O. Prum** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on sexual selection.
7. **Grant — Ron Chernow** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
8. **Locking Up Our Own — James Forman Jr.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on crime and punishment.
9. **Prairie Fires — Caroline Fraser** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
10. **Priestdaddy — Patricia Lockwood** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoir.

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