One of the joys of the novel is its endless capacity for reinvention, and 2017 saw fiction writers trying out fresh approaches and new forms.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
8.5
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A searing and profound odyssey bringing the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century...
Home Fire
9.0
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted author...
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The Awkward Age
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In a Victorian terraced house, in north-west London, two families unite in imperfect harmony. After...
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book...
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Loudwire counts down the best hard rock albums 2017 had to offer.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves by Nothing More
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves is Nothing More’s sixth studio album. It will release September 2017...
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The team from Paste Magazine have selected some gorgeous covers that weave creativity and practicality into memorable designs:
How to Behave in a Crowd
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A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival...
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Heather, the Totality
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The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to...
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often...
Young adult social issues
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
7.6
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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as...
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
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Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting...
Essays Comedy
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What The Economist writers wrote when they weren’t in the office:
Here Comes Trouble
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'1984 crossed with ADRIAN MOLE' Daily Mail 'SCOOP meets BORAT' TLS 'Scarily prophetic about news,...
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Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India
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Today, India stands on the threshold of global dominance. And as it faces the road ahead, attention...
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Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
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Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of...
history
The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain
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In 2012 on Catalonia's National Day, the Diada, an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence...
history politics
District VIII
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Life's tough for a Gypsy cop in Budapest. The cops don't trust you because you're a Gypsy. Your...
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Kip Moore flipped off the industry, Willie Nelson taunted mortality, and Margo Price questioned the American dream:
Trinity Lane by Lilly Hiatt
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This is the 3rd record from Nashville's, Lilly Hiatt. We have previously released her records on...
alternative rock
Purgatory by Tyler Childers
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Like many great Southern storytellers, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a...
country
Good Woman by Becca Mancari
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Becca Mancari is rewriting the rules. Her highly anticipated debut album, "Good Woman," is...
alternative indie
First Cigarette by Travis Meadows
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Acclaimed hit songwriter Travis Meadows releases First Cigarette (Blaster Records). First Cigarette...
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In no particular order, here are Gamespot's picks for the best VR games of 2017:
Resident Evil 7 biohazard
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Step into a Resident Evil experience quite unlike anything you’ve ever encountered as the series...
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
8.9
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda...
Robo Recall
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Players control Agent 34, an employee of RoboReady, a leading manufacturer of service robots. As a...
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TLS contributors pick their Books of the Year 2017.
Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing
Boris Groys, Arseny Zhilyaev, Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov, Pavel Pepperstein, Anton Vidokle and Andrey Monastyrsky
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In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia,...
An Elephant and Piggie Biggie
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Mo Willems, a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, celebrates ten years of Elephant...
See this image Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry
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“Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the...
Norse Mythology
8.4
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The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and...
Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths
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An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek...
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From adventure games to puzzle games, city building games, shooters and more, PC Gamer has rounded up a varied collection of their favourite free experiences from 2017.
City Clickers
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"The Quintessential SimCity Clone But Not Really" City Clickers was initially developed for 1 Bit...
Spikes 'n' Stuff
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Avoid being stabbed by the spikes that pop up from the ground when you walk over them or being hit...
Arc Symphony
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You're going to want to join our Usenet newsgroup, alt.games.arc-symphony. It's great! There's a...
The Visible City
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A game about the politics of lighting. Manage a Parisian district where the map disappears if...
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2017 was an incredible year for the video game industry, almost across the board and Amazon has just shared its bestselling list across all platforms for the year: