Best Books of 2017

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The A.V. Club’s Favorite Books of 2017

BBC Culture The 10 Best Books of 2017

Bloomberg The Best Books of 2017

Booklist Top 10 Cookbooks: 2017

Booklist Top 10 First Novels: 2017

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BookPage 10 Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017

BookPage 10 Best Romance Novels of 2017

Bustle The 9 Best True Crime Books of 2017

Bustle The 17 Best Fiction Books of 2017

BuzzFeed The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2017

Chicago Review of Books The Best Fiction Books of 2017

CNBC 13 of the Best Business Books of 2017

The Economist Books of the Year 2017

Elle Magazine Best Books of 2017

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Books of 2017

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Debut Novels of 2017

Esquire The 50 Best Books of 2017

GQ These Are the Best Books of 2017

Harper’s Bazaar The 19 Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)

Huffington Post The Best Fiction Books Of 2017

Kirkus Best Fiction of 2017

Kirkus Most Page-Turning Nonfiction of 2017

Library Journal Best Books 2017

LibraryReads Favorite of Favorites 2017

LitHub The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2017: Fiction

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National Geographic 12 Books We Loved in 2017

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NPR’s Guide To 2017’s Great Reads

NY Times 10 Best Books of 2017

NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2017

NY Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017

O Magazine Our Favorite Books of 2017

Paste Magazine The 20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017

Paste Magazine The 25 Best Novels of 2017

People Magazine The Top 10 Books of 2017

Publishers Weekly Best Books 2017

Rolling Stone 10 Best Music Books of 2017

Shelf Awareness Our Best Adult Books of 2017

Time Magazine Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017

Time Magazine Top 10 Novels of 2017

USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2017

Vogue Magazine The 10 Best Books of 2017

Washington Post Best Books 2017

Fall Booklists

FIND SOMETHING NEW TO READ THIS FALL!

AARP 12 New Books for Fall

BookPage First Fiction: What’s Next in 2017?

BookPage Fall 2017: Most Anticipated Fall Nonfiction

BookPage 2017 Preview: Most Anticipated Fall Fiction

BookPage Fall’s Most Anticipated Mysteries

FIND SOMETHING NEW TO READ THIS FALL!

AARP 12 New Books for Fall

BookPage First Fiction: What’s Next in 2017?

BookPage Fall 2017: Most Anticipated Fall Nonfiction

BookPage 2017 Preview: Most Anticipated Fall Fiction

BookPage Fall’s Most Anticipated Mysteries

Buzzfeed 28 Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Fall

Chicago Review of Books 18 Books You Need to Read This Fall

Elle Magazine 27 of the Best Books to Read This Fall

Entertainment Weekly 20 Books to Read This Fall

Esquire Magazine The Best Books of 2017 (So Far)

Goodreads 21 Big Books of Fall

Harper’s Bazaar Magazine 9 New Books You Need to Read in October

Huffington Post 28 New Fiction Books to Add to Your Must-Read List This Fall

Kirkus Popular Fiction Writers’ Latest Books You Must Read

Kirkus This Fall’s Can’t-Miss, Most Noteworthy Memoirs

The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2017 Book Preview

New York Magazine 44 New Books to Read This Fall

Newsday Best Fall Books

NY Daily News 9 of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall

PBS 13 Fall Books That Will Make You Think

POPSUGAR The 25 Must-Read Books Hitting Bookshelves This Fall

Publishers Weekly The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2017

Refinery29 These Are Our Favorite Books Of 2017 — So Far

Southern Living Magazine Books Coming Out in the Fall That We Can’t Wait to Read

USA Today 10 Cool Books for Fall

Washington Post 9 Short-Story Collections We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall

Summer Booklists

LOOKING FOR A GREAT SUMMER READ? CHECK OUT THESE BOOKLISTS!

AARP Best Beach Reading 2017

BookPage 2017 Summer Reading Preview

Boston Globe Summer Reading

BuzzFeed 22 Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Summer

CNN Travel Best Beach Reads for Summer 2017

LOOKING FOR A GREAT SUMMER READ? CHECK OUT THESE BOOKLISTS!

AARP Best Beach Reading 2017

BookPage 2017 Summer Reading Preview

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BuzzFeed 22 Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Summer

CNN Travel Best Beach Reads for Summer 2017

Coastal Living 50 Best Books for the Beach This Summer

Elle The 24 Best Books to Read This Summer

Entertainment Weekly 20 Books to Read This Summer

Harper’s Bazaar The Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)

Marie Claire 8 New Page-Turners to Pack in Your Beach Bag This Summer

New York Magazine The Best Books of 2017 (So Far)

New York Times Books to Breeze Through This Summer

Newsday Best Summer Books 2017

PBS 19 Summer Books That Will Keep You Up All Night Reading

Publishers Weekly Best Summer Books, 2017

Refinery29 The Best Beach Reads of 2017

Southern Living The Best New Summer Books of 2017

TED Ideas 101 Books to Dive Into This Summer: A Massive Reading List

Time Out The Best Summer Beach Reads for 2017

Town & Country 13 Books to Read This Summer

Travel & Leisure The Best Books to Read on Vacation This Summer

USA Today 10 Hot Books You Won’t Want to Miss This Summer

Vogue The 27 Best Books to Pack for Your Summer Vacation

The Washington Post 37 Books We’ve Loved So Far in 2017

Wired 9 Essential Summer Reads

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Fiction & Nonfiction of 2016 So Far…

FICTION

The Girls by Emma Cline
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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FICTION

The Girls by Emma Cline
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LaRose by Louise Erdrich
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The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Also available: eBook, audio download

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Also available: eBook, audio download

Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
Also available: eBook

This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
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Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Smoke by Dan Vyleta
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The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

NONFICTION

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Also available: eBook, audio download

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
Also available: eBook

Grunt by Mary Roach
Also available: eBook, CD book

Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
Also available: eBook

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Also available: eBook

A Mother’s Reckoning by Susan Klebold
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Time Magazine Best Books of 2016 So Far

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
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Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
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The Past by Tessa Hadley
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Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Also available: eBook

The Fireman by Joe Hill
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Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Also available: eBook

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Also available: eBook

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

The Past by Tessa Hadley
Also available: eBook, audio download

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Also available: eBook

The Fireman by Joe Hill
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Also available: eBook

The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Also available: eBook, audio download

Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide by Michael Kinsley

My Struggle: Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Gone With the Mind by Mark Leyner

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
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Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
Also available: eBook

Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran by Barry Meier
Also available: audio download

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
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Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
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My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
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Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
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New York Magazine: The Best Books of 2016 (So Far)

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
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Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
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What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
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Hystopia by David Means
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Zero K by Don DeLillo
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The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
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The Girls by Emma Cline
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
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Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich
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Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
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Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Also available: eBook

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Also available: eBook

Hystopia by David Means
Also available: eBook

Zero K by Don DeLillo
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Also available: eBook, audio download

The Girls by Emma Cline
Also available: eBook, audio download, CD book, large print book

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Also available: eBook

Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich
Also available: eBook, audio download

Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams

Man Booker Prize 2015 – Longlist

The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize are:

The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize are:

 

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

The Green Road by Anne Enright  (CD book)

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James  (eBook)

The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan

Lila by Marilynne Robinson  (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook)

Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota

The Chimes by Anna Smaill

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook, large print book)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)man booker

 

The shortlist will be announced on September 15, and the winner will be announced on October 13.

2015 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees

Vote for your favorites, starting August 15th, here!  The Teens’ Top Ten books will be announced the last week of October. Clicking on the cover will bring you to the title in the catalog – books are available in a variety of format, including Playaways, eBooks, and more!

Alsaid, Adi. Let’s Get Lost. 2014. 338p.
As Leila struggles to come to terms with her new life, she grasps for the only thing she knows is real, the northern lights. On her cross-country trip to see them, she meets four people that not only change her, but change because of her.

Armentrout, Jennifer L. Don’t Look Back. 2014. 369p.
Samantha’s mind is a blank slate after she disappeared with her best frenemy, Cassie. However, when Cassie’s dead body turns up, Samantha’s memories are the only clue to what happened that night. Unfortunately, Sam not having any memories may be the only thing keeping her alive.

Blackburne, Livia. Midnight Thief. 2014. 376p.
Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city.

Blake, Kendare. Mortal Gods. 2014. 348p.
For the first time ever, Cassandra and Athena have a mutual goal: to kill the remaining gods and goddesses that have taken refuge on Mount Olympus. If they could just figure out how to work together, they might be able to accomplish it.

Clare, Cassandra. The Bane Chronicles. 2014. 507p.
Magnus Bane, the mysterious High Warlock of New York, has been alive for a long time and has a mysterious past unknown to most of his companions. In this thrilling novel, secrets and stories are revealed, of lovers, of adventures, and of friendships.

Cremer, Andrea. The Inventor’s Secret. 2014. 373p.
In a steampunk world, after the British Empire won the Revolutionary War, a young Patriot named Charlotte finds a boy in the woods, running from British war machines. When he claims he cannot remember anything, she and the other rebels decide to find his true origin by going to the heart of the Empire: New York.

Dellaira, Ava.Love Letters to the Dead. 2014. 327p.
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister’s mysterious death, her mother’s departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.

Despain, Bree. Into the Dark: The Shadow Prince. 2014. 481p.
Haden, the disgraced son of Ren Hades, King of the Underworld, has been chosen to go to the surface and bring back Daphne Vince, his boon. Daphne’s alcoholic rock star father is giving her the chance she has dreamed of to further her music career, but in California, further away from home than she’s ever been. Their fates are entwined, and they’re about to meet for the first time.

Han, Jenny. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. 2014. 355p.
Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

Howard, A.G. Unhinged. 2014. 387p.
Finally back in the “real world” all Alyssa has left is to ignore her darker side and enjoy the normality of high school and her life with Jeb. But does Wonderland leave her alone? Can the Red Queen let Alyssa get away with what she has done? Everything would be easier if Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest.

Lu, Marie. The Young Elites. 2014. 355p.
Scarred and cast out after surviving the blood plague, Adelina finds a place for herself among the Young Elites who use their magic to advocate on behalf of young innocents and who are targeted by the soldiers of the Inquisition Axis.

Maas, Sarah J. Heir of Fire. 2014. 565p.
Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.

Matson, Morgan. Since You’ve Been Gone. 2014. 449p.
Emily and Sloane are the bestest friends having an amazing summer, until one day Sloane disappears. Sloane leaves behind a to-do list of 13 tasks Emily would normally never try without Sloane by her side. With the help of Frank Porter, and a few other friends, will Emily finish the list?

Nielson, Jennifer A. The Shadow Throne. 2014. 317p.
War is on the horizon in Carthya, and Jaron needs to protect his country. However, the ruler of Avenia has also captured Jaron’s best friend and love, Imogen. Jaron needs to save both his friend and his country, but everything that possibly could go wrong, does go wrong.

Novak, Ali. My Life with the Walter Boys. 2014. 358p.
As the perfect girl who had everything scheduled, always looked nice and studied hard, Jackie couldn’t predict her parents’ accident. She also didn’t see her future consisting of moving from New York to Colorado and living with twelve boys. How can she cope with her parents’ death and a dramatic change in lifestyle while still being the perfect girl she was?

Pearson, Mary E. The Kiss of Deception. 2014. 489p.
As Lia tries to run from her bounty hunters, she begins uncovering one of her kingdom’s deceptive secrets, hidden by the years passed. Meanwhile, she begins falling in love with two men who are not what they seem to be…

Rutkoski, Marie. The Winner’s Curse. 2014. 355p.
When Kestral, aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, its an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.

Scott, Victoria. Fire & Flood. 2014. 305p.
Relocating with her family to the middle of nowhere to alleviate the symptoms of her brother’s baffling, life-threatening illness, Tella receives a mysterious invitation to compete in a brutal survivalist competition for the cure to her brother’s disease.

Shine, Joe. I Become Shadow. 2014. 296p.
Abducted at age fourteen and trained by the F.A.T.E. Center to become a Shadow, guardian of a future leader, Ren Sharpe, now eighteen, is assigned to protect college science student Gareth Young, but with help from her secret love and fellow Shadow, Junie, she learns that F.A.T.E. itself is behind an attack on Gareth.

Smith, Andrew. Grasshopper Jungle. 2014. 388p.
In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.

Smith, Jennifer E. The Geography of You and Me. 2014. 337p.
Stuck in an elevator during a blackout in New York City, Lucy and Owen manage to escape and spend the rest of the blackout bonding on the darkened streets, a night they remember with longing when their respective lives separate them.

Stone, Juliana. Boys Like You. 2014. 274.
When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother’s Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.

Sundquist, Josh. We Should Hang Out Sometime. 2014. 326p.

When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend. At the time, I was actually under the impression that I was in a relationship, so this bit of news came as something of a shock. Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down each of the girls he had tried to date since middle school and asked them straight up: What went wrong?

Talley, Robin. Lies We Tell Ourselves. 2014. 368p.
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent’s daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.

 

 

Publishers Weekly Best Books 2014

Publishers Weekly’s top ten books of 2014:

Publishers Weekly’s top ten books of 2014:

NONFICTION

On Immunity by Eula Biss

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright

The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison

Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia by Emmanuel Carrère

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar

FICTION

The Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (eBook)

Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore

The Dog by Joseph O’Neill

 

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2014

The 10 Best Books of 2014, chosen by the New York Times from their annual list of 100 Notable Books.

The 10 Best Books of 2014, chosen by the New York Times from their annual list of 100 Notable Books.

FICTION

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (CD book)

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (audio download, eBook)

Euphoria by Lily King

Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Redeployment by Phil Klay (eBook)

NONFICTION

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (CD book)

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright