Best Books Read in 2017

Top Five in Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Biography

Best Fiction:

1. The Arrangement: A Novel by Sarah Dunn
2. The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper
3. Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
4. Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
5. Bluebird Bluebird by Atica Locke

 

Best Non-Fiction

1. The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
3. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
4. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Best Biography/Autobiography

1. In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
2. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
3. Delbert McClinton One of the Fortunate Few by Diana Finlay Hendricks
4. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah     
5. Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of John Rivers by Leslie Bennetts

What I’m Reading:

Among Heroes by Brandon Tyler Webb and John David Mann

Artemis by Andy Weir     

     

Esther’s Follies: The Laughs, The Gossip and the Story Behind Texas’ Most Celebrated Comedy Troupe by Jesse Sublett

Best American Food Writing 2017

Leonardo da vinci by Walter Isaacson

Magpie Murders: A Novel by Anthony Horowitz    

 

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

The Moleskin Mystery by Anonymous (Turk Pipkin)

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

Best American Sports Writing 2017 

The Tao of Willie by Willie Nelson with Turk Pipkin

Train to Crystal City, The: FCR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell

Best American Travel Writing 2017 

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead