Best Fiction of 2017 To Get Your Book Club Talking

by Jami Attenberg

Wry, sharp, and profoundly kind; a necessary pleasure. Full review >

by Paul Auster

With this novel, Auster reminds us that not just life, but also narrative is always conditional, that it only appears... Full review >

by Sylvia Brownrigg

A valentine that perfectly captures love's power to isolate the lovers from the rest of the world—and, in the end, from each... Full review >

by Dan Chaon

A shadowy narrative that’s carried well by the author’s command and insight. Full review >

by Jonathan Dee

An absorbing panorama of small-town life and a study of democracy in miniature, with both the people and their polity facing... Full review >

by Bernard MacLaverty

A closely observed, deeply sympathetic rendering of a relationship and the fissures that threaten to wreck it. Full review >

by Jon McGregor

A stunningly good, understated novel told in a mesmerizing voice. Full review >

by Claire Messud

Emotionally intense and quietly haunting. Full review >

by Kei Miller

Despite the novel’s relative brevity, Miller captures the ways community, faith, and class create a variety of cultural... Full review >

by Arundhati Roy

An assured novel borne along by a swiftly moving storyline that addresses the most profound issues with elegant humor. Let’s... Full review >

by Danzy Senna

A great book about race and a great book all around. Full review >

by Ali Smith

Smith's book is a kaleidoscope whose suggestive fragments and insights don’t easily render a pleasing pattern, yet it’s... Full review >