
The Guardian: Best Books of 2017 - Part One
‘Funny, outrageous, touching, intimate, gorgeous’ … writers from George Saunders to Ali Smith pick their favourite reads of the past year:

The Lost Words
Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
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From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane -- an enchanting illustrated spell-book, to...

Still Life with Feeding Snake
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From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a...
poetry

Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
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WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What the judges said: 'Every...
gender studies science

Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands...
social sciences

Home Fire
Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author...
Fiction social issues

East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 'A monumental achievement:...

The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second...

The Story of a Brief Marriage
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Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers....
Fiction social issues

How to Behave in a Crowd
Book
A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival...
fiction

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
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Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle...
social sciences culture