LibGuides: Best Books of 2017: Fiction

A - F

The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3554 .E472 C83 2017
ISBN: 9781501101724
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
Publishers Weekly
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3619 .M5748 A6 2017
ISBN: 9781555977856
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Shortlist - National Book Award for Poetry; Publishers Weekly; Washington Post; Library Journal; Booklist - Editor's Choice
Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3558 .A42169 E95 2017
ISBN: 9780735212176
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Winner - LA Times Book Prize for Fiction; Finalist - National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Shortlist - Man Booker Prize; Longlist - Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Fiction; Amazon; Finalist - Kirkus Prize; Washington Post; New York Times Book Review; LA Times; Booklist - Editor's Choice
The Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3555 .R42 F88 2017
ISBN: 9780062694058
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Longlist - Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Fiction; Kirkus; New York Times Book Review; Booklist - Editor's Choice

G - O

Grief Cottage: A Novel by Gail Godwin
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3557 .O315 G75 2017
ISBN: 9781632867049
Publication Date: 2017-08-10
Publishers Weekly (Top 10)
Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3552 .I33 2017
ISBN: 9780374125950
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
Winner - Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Winner - National Book Award for Poetry; Washington Post
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3613 .A2725243 A6 2017
ISBN: 9781555977887
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Winner - John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle; Shortlist - National Book Award for Fiction; Finalist - Kirkus Prize; Publishers Weekly, LA Times, Washington Post
History of Wolves: A Novel by Emily Fridlund
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3606 .R536 H57 2017
ISBN: 9780802125873
Publication Date: 2017-01-03
Shortlist - Man Booker Prize; Longlist - Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Fiction; New York Times Book Review; Booklist - Editor's Choice
Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3607 .Y37 H66 2016
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Winner: Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award
House of Spies by Daniel Silva
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3619 .I5443 H68 2017
ISBN: 9780062354341
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
Kirkus
Improvement: A Novel by Joan Silber
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3569 .I414 I46 2017
ISBN: 9781619029606
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Winner - National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Winner - Pen/Faulkner Award; Washington Post, Kirkus
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi; Aaron Bady (Introduction by)
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 9402.9 .M35 K56 2017
ISBN: 9781945492013
Publication Date: 2017-05-16
Publishers Weekly
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 6062 .E33 L44 2017
ISBN: 9780735225114
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Washington Post, LA Times
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3569 .A7897 L56 2017
ISBN: 9780812995343
Publication Date: 2017-02-14
Winner - Man Booker Prize; Shortlist - Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Fiction; Kirkus, Washington Post Top 10, New York Times Book Review, Library Journal Top 10, LA Times, Booklist - Editor's Choice
Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel by Celeste Ng
Call Number: Wilm Reserves PS 3614 .G83 L58 2017
ISBN: 9780735224292
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Amazon, Kirkus, Washington Post, Booklist
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3555 .G292 M36 2017
ISBN: 9781476716732
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Winner - Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Fiction: Winner - Booklist Top of the List for Fiction; Booklist - Editor's Choice; Kirkus; Washington Post; New York Times Book Review
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel by Arundhati Roy
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 9499.3 .R59 M56 2017
ISBN: 9781524733155
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Longlist - Man Booker Prize; Longlist - Carnegie Medal of Excellence for Fiction; Kirkus; Washington Post; Booklist
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Call Number: Wilm & North Circulating Books BL 860 .G35 2017
ISBN: 9780393609097
Publication Date: 2017-02-07
Washington Post, Booklist

P -Z

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3623 .A7323 S56 2017
ISBN: 9781501126062
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Winner - National Book Award for Fiction; Winner - Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction; Shortlist - Carnegie Medal for Fiction; Finalist - Kirkus Prize; Washington Post Top 10; Publishers Weekly Top 10; Amazon; New York Times Book Review; LA Times
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3573 .H4768 U53 2016
ISBN: 9780385542364
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Longlist - Man Booker Prize - Fiction
Vicious Circle by C. J. Box
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3552 .O87658 V53 2017
ISBN: 9780399176616
Publication Date: 2017-03-21
Publishers Weekly
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3612 .O5248 A6 2017
ISBN: 9781555977672
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Winner - National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry; Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, Library Journal