# Time's top 20 books of 2017

The 20 books Time magazine named the best of 2017, ten fiction and ten non-fiction, including Lincoln in the Bardo and Killers of the Flower Moon.

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- Dec 15, 2023 · Ethan Walker
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## Top 20

1. **White Tears — Hari Kunzru** (18 · ▲18 ▼0) — Fiction.
2. **Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — Fiction; 2017 National Book Award.
3. **Manhattan Beach — Jennifer Egan** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Fiction.
4. **Exit West — Mohsin Hamid** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Fiction.
5. **Transit — Rachel Cusk** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Fiction.
6. **Days Without End — Sebastian Barry** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Fiction.
7. **Killers of the Flower Moon — David Grann** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI.
8. **New People — Danzy Senna** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Fiction.
9. **The Rules Do Not Apply — Ariel Levy** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Memoir.
10. **The Changeling — Victor LaValle** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Fiction.
11. **The Ninth Hour — Alice McDermott** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Fiction.
12. **What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Memoir of the 2016 campaign.
13. **Hunger — Roxane Gay** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Memoir.
14. **Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Fiction; 2017 Booker Prize.
15. **We Were Eight Years in Power — Ta-Nehisi Coates** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Essays.
16. **Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Non-fiction about humanity's future.
17. **The Meaning of Michelle — ed. Veronica Chambers** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Essays on Michelle Obama.
18. **The Evangelicals — Frances FitzGerald** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — History.
19. **Blind Spot — Teju Cole** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Photographs and texts.
20. **The Vanity Fair Diaries — Tina Brown** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — Diaries, 1983–1992.

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