The Naming (The Books of Pellinor #1)
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Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child after her family...
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...
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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...
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Mrs. Fletcher
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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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Here are 15 memoirs from some of your favourite celebrities, including Anna Kendrick, Andy Cohen...
Make Your Mind Up
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When Bethany first propped her camera on a stack of books and pressed record in 2009, she didn't...
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The Seasons of My Mother
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In this poetic and inspiring memoir, one of America’s most revered actresses uses the imagery of...
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True Roots: A Mindful Kitchen
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From New York Times bestselling author of Balancing in Heels Kristin Cavallari comes a cookbook that...
Food and Drink Health
Black Privilege
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Charlamagne Tha God—the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” co-host of Power...
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Good Grief: Heal Your Soul
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The star of TLC’s Long Island Medium and New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo provides...
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2017 has been a huge year for science fiction and fantasy literature as a whole. The Verge has compiled some great reads from debut authors, and the best names in the business closing out trilogies.
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
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In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their...
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Barbary Station
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Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are...
Science fiction
The Stone in the Skull: The Lotus Kingdoms
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This first volume of a new Eternal Sky trilogy takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of...
Fantasy
Provenance
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Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C....
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Autonomous: A Novel
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When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist...
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Some of the biggest ongoing business stories of our time are reflected in this year's list of best business books from McKinsey and the Financial Times.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
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How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history ...
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The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
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Listed as an FT book of the month. "Anyone with an interest in financial services and in what has...
The One Device
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017 The secret history of the...
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL...
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Janesville
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"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the...
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Here are The Vulture's favourite art books — a term that encompasses books about art, books by artists, and books of art — from 2016.
Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015
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Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 is the first major anthology of 21st-century artist...
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art
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In How to See, David Salle explores how art works and how it moves us, informs us and challenges us....
Dali: Les Diners de Gala
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“Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one...
Art food
Chardin and Rembrandt
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Long overlooked in Proust’s posthumously published writings, Chardin and Rembrandt, written when...
art essays
Before Pictures
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Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is...
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If you like reading books that are entertaining page-turners and also tickle your grey cells then Book Riot has recommended these 2017 books.
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Do you have strong feelings about the word “irregardless”? Have you ever tried to define the...
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
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From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally...
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Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
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In their debut, teenage tech phenoms Sophie Houser and Andrea Gonzales reveal the true story behind...
Technology
Chemistry: A Novel
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Named a “Most Anticipated Novel of 2017” by Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and Bustle A...
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