Time's top 20 books of 2017
The top 3 according to 153 votes from people: White Tears — Hari Kunzru · Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward · Manhattan Beach — Jennifer Egan. (Updated Dec 15, 2023.)
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.
Top 20
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1
White Tears — Hari Kunzru
Fiction.
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2
Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
Fiction; 2017 National Book Award.
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3
Manhattan Beach — Jennifer Egan
Fiction.
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4
Exit West — Mohsin Hamid
Fiction.
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5
Transit — Rachel Cusk
Fiction.
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6
Days Without End — Sebastian Barry
Fiction.
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7
Killers of the Flower Moon — David Grann
The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI.
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8
New People — Danzy Senna
Fiction.
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9
The Rules Do Not Apply — Ariel Levy
Memoir.
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10
The Changeling — Victor LaValle
Fiction.
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11
The Ninth Hour — Alice McDermott
Fiction.
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12
What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton
Memoir of the 2016 campaign.
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13
Hunger — Roxane Gay
Memoir.
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14
Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
Fiction; 2017 Booker Prize.
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15
We Were Eight Years in Power — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Essays.
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16
Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari
Non-fiction about humanity's future.
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17
The Meaning of Michelle — ed. Veronica Chambers
Essays on Michelle Obama.
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18
The Evangelicals — Frances FitzGerald
History.
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19
Blind Spot — Teju Cole
Photographs and texts.
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20
The Vanity Fair Diaries — Tina Brown
Diaries, 1983–1992.
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Comments (3)
Exit West, short and devastating.
Lincoln in the Bardo is such a strange and moving book.
Lincoln in the Bardo is one of the strangest, most beautiful novels.