These are the top books so far from Esquire's Best Books of 2017 list.
Eastman Was Here
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“Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered.” —The...
Fiction
Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgaard and Ingvild Burkey
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I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the...
New People
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From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and...
Fiction
Mrs. Fletcher
7.3
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Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved...
Things That Happened Before the Earthquake
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Welcome to LA? Nineties’ Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny...
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From crime to literary fiction, The Independent has rounded up the recently published works of fiction from some of the literary world's most exciting new talents:
Goodbye, Vitamin
8.3
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Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancé are moving house, but he's moving...
Fiction
Conversations With Friends
6.3
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A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of...
Literary Fiction
Sweet Little Lies
8.3
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What happens when the trust has gone? Cat Kinsella was always a daddy's girl. Until the summer of...
crime fiction
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
8.6
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No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She...
Romance fiction
The Idiot: A Novel
4.5
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Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself...
Literary Fiction
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Jane Austen’s bicentenary, Arundhati Roy’s first novel in 20 years, and unpublished F Scott Fitzgerald ... the literary year ahead
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
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Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing...
Anthony Powell: A Life
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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers...
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms
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Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which...
and 41 other items
This is my Everest. Read 303 books this year, and I'm still going into 2018. It's never-ending. It should get less and less as I continue to read through this list.
The Rules Do Not Apply
6.0
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'Ariel Levy is a writer of uncompromising honesty, remarkable clarity and surprising humor...I am...
Running: A Novel
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From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a dark and breathtaking novel of...
essays social issues
It Can't Happen Here
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'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with...
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
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In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947,...
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Published weekly in The New York Times Book Review, the best-seller list has been published in the Times since October 12, 1931.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century
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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame...
History Politics
The Lost City of the Monkey God
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An...
History archeology
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
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#1 New York Times Bestseller “Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale...
Biography comedy politics
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
8.2
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'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE by director Ron...
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from a celebrated and beloved...
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Here are some highly anticipated romance books Buzzfeed recommends you need to read in 2017. There's something for everyone including dark romance lovers, melt your e-reader erotica, rom-com and more.
Raw Deal: Larson Brothers Series
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Savannah's brother was killed in a cage fight with Mike "Red Reaper" Larson after a savage punch to...
Erotica Romance
Pieces of Heaven
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I didn’t want this life. But sometimes you’re forced to make the best of the crappy hand...
Romance
The Play Mate
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His best friend's little sister is all grown up … and ready to play in a whole new way. Smith...
Romance
Good Boy: WAGS Series
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A brand new stand-alone romantic comedy from the bestselling, award-winning team of Sarina Bowen &...
Romance Comedy
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Without doubt, there has been some big releases for lovers of all the main crime fiction genres.
Camino Island
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A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s...
Want You Gone
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Want You Gone is the superb new psychological thriller from million-plus award-winning bestseller...
Thriller
Say Nothing
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Judge Scott Sampson doesn’t brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A...
Thriller
The Girl Before
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH THE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB...
Jericho's War
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Jericho's War is a relentlessly powerful novel of our times from 'the best thriller writer in the...
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At the start of the month dedicated to African American history, here’s The Guardian's rundown of what to read, including Paul Beatty and Octavia Butler.
The Woman Next Door
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Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
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The definitive biography of the soul legend James Brown by National Book Award-winning novelist...
The Sellout
9.0
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'Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The longer you stare at...
The Hate u Give
8.4
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A powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century. Sixteen-year-old...
Race police shooting black lives matter prejudice witness murder
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton
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On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and...