Amazon’s Best of 2017
Online bookseller Amazon.com published its yearly array of lists to promote the best books of 2017, with editors’ selections in various categories.
The Editors’ Picks: Top 100 Print Books includes the following works of genre interest:
- #6 Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House)
- #8 You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir, Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown)
- #9 Sourdough, Robin Sloane (MCD)
- #16 Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
- #23 Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
- #25 The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
- #30 Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
- #36 The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf)
- #58 Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton)
- #62 Human Acts, Han Kang (Hogarth)
- #71 The Golden House, Salman Rushdie (Random House)
- #79 The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
- #98 In the Midst of Winter, Isabel Allende (Atria)
- #99 Void Star, Zachary Mason (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The top editors’ pick in SF/F was The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey). The other top 20 picks are:
- The Power, Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown)
- City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway)
- The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
- The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace)
- American War, Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
- Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton)
- The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- The Hundredth Queen, Emily R. King (Skyscape)
- The Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
- Void Star, Zachary Mason (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Blackwing, Ed McDonald (Ace)
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf)
- Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
- A Conjuring of Light, V.E. Schwab (Tor)
- Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- The Genius Plague, David Walton (Pyr)
- Artemis, Andy Weir (Crown)
- All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
- When the English Fall, David Williams (Algonquin)
The editors’ picks in YA included:
- Landscape with Invisible Hand, M.T. Anderson (Candlewick)
- Lord of Shadows, Cassandra Clare (McElderry)
- Caraval, Stephanie Garber (Flatiron)
- Warcross, Marie Lu (Putnam)
- Tower of Dawn, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Children’s)
- The Last Magician, Lisa Maxwell (Simon Pulse)
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf)
- They Both Die At the End, Adam Silvera (HarperTeen)
- Strange the Dreamer, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Best Literature and Fiction editors’ picks includes:
- Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf)
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House)
- Sourdough, Robin Sloane (MCD)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
Best Biographies and Memoirs has You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir, Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown), and Romance has Silver Silence, Nalini Singh (Berkeley).
For more information, including full lists, see the Amazon Best Books announcement.
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