Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year 2017
Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year 2017 names 36 books across 2 categories. 21 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
Fiction
- A Book of American Martyrssource (opens in a new tab)
- A Legacy of Spiessource (opens in a new tab)
- Bornesource (opens in a new tab)
- Dinner at the Center of the Earthsource (opens in a new tab)
- Exit Westsource (opens in a new tab)
- Her Body and Other Partiessource (opens in a new tab)
- Home Firesource (opens in a new tab)
- Ill Willsource (opens in a new tab)
- Kasource (opens in a new tab)
- Lincoln in the Bardosource (opens in a new tab)
- Mrs. Fletchersource (opens in a new tab)
- Shadowbahnsource (opens in a new tab)
- Sing, Unburied, Singsource (opens in a new tab)
- So Much Bluesource (opens in a new tab)
- Songy of Paradisesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Burning Girlsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Leaverssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Powersource (opens in a new tab)
- Wonder Valleysource (opens in a new tab)
Nonfiction
- Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-facts, and Fake Newssource (opens in a new tab)
- Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years, 1898-1940source (opens in a new tab)
- Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50 Year Relationship on and off the Courtsource (opens in a new tab)
- High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classicsource (opens in a new tab)
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Bodysource (opens in a new tab)
- Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebelsource (opens in a new tab)
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIsource (opens in a new tab)
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Blood of Emmett Tillsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russiasource (opens in a new tab)
- The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planetsource (opens in a new tab)
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedysource (opens in a new tab)
- What Happenedsource (opens in a new tab)
- Why Poetrysource (opens in a new tab)
- World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Techsource (opens in a new tab)
- Wrestling with His Angel: The Political Life of Lincoln, Vol. IIsource (opens in a new tab)
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoirsource (opens in a new tab)
About the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year
The Los Angeles Times' own year-end best books lists. 2006-2009: the Book Review staff's favorite books of the year, 25 fiction and poetry titles (filed as Fiction) and 25 nonfiction titles. 2010-2015: book critic David L. Ulin's top 10 books of the year, the paper's year-end list after the Book Review section closed. 2016: the 10 most important books of 2016. 2017: the holiday guide's best fiction and best nonfiction of the year. 2020: the 10 best books of 2020. 2021-2022: 20 best books, five each from four Times critics; rows cite each critic's page. 2023: the 13 best novels and 2 best story collections, chosen by three critics; no matching nonfiction list ran. 2024-2025: 15 best books chosen by three critics; picks two critics shared are counted once, and the 2024 Marguerite Young entry covers two books. No list for 2018 or 2019: 2018 ran only a critic's essay, and 2019 ran only celebrity picks. Left out: author and celebrity picks columns, holiday gift guides, genre side-lists, and other critics' columns. The 2012 and 2013 lists were photo galleries whose slides no longer load on latimes.com; titles come from Wayback Machine captures of the same galleries. No list is ranked; most run alphabetically.
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