Amazon Announces the Best Books of 2017 (So Far)
June 21 2017 - 12:30PM
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Amazon Books Editorial team selects the best
titles for every reader’s summer—from futuristic novels and
small-town stories to page-turning memoirs
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its selections for
Best Books of the Year So Far, naming Arundhati Roy’s novel, The
Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the top pick overall. The annual list
is hand-selected by the Amazon Books Editors and features the Top
20 books released between January and June 2017 – offering readers
a mid-year look at the best books.
“We love looking back on the past six months to give our
customers a list of our favorite must-reads heading into summer,”
said Sarah Harrison Smith, Editorial Director, Print and Kindle
Books. “Our top pick this year, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is
a sweeping yet intimate story, one that packs heartbreak, humor,
love and acceptance—and a memorable cast of characters—into a novel
that will stick with readers for a very long time.”
The Amazon Books Editors’ picks for the first 10 of the Top-20
Best Books of the Year So Far are:
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A
Novel by Arundhati Roy: An intricate and graceful story of
lives touched by magic, broken by tragedy, and mended with love.
It's an exceptional work of storytelling and well worth the 20 year
wait since her beloved debut, The God of Small Things.
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The
Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann: Smart,
taut and gripping, Grann’s true-if-largely-unknown tale of big oil
and serial murder on the Osage Indian Reservation in the 1920s is
sobering: at once unsurprising and unbelievable, full of the
arrogance and inhumanity that our society has yet to overcome.
- Beartown: A Novel by Fredrik
Backman: The author of A Man Called Ove sidesteps the predictable
as he forges a new path of soul-searching and truth-telling in his
gripping new novel about a small, hockey-mad town whose hopes and
loyalties are torn apart by a crime no one wants to believe
happened.
- Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin
Hamid: In this futuristic novel, young lovers flee a war-torn
Middle Eastern country to seek safety in the West, where cities
like London have become embattled refugee settlements. Hamid
(author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist) has said that in some
sense we are all refugees, and it’s easy to sympathize with his
protagonists, who find their romance tested by their travails in
exile.
- Priestdaddy: A Memoir by
Patricia Lockwood: When Patricia Lockwood temporarily moves back in
with her parents—her father, a Catholic priest who loves electric
guitars; her mother, focused on disasters and Satan worshippers—she
returns, as well, to the memories of her upbringing. Poetically
precise language and darkly hilarious observations spark zingers
that will make you rethink your own childhood indoctrinations.
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A
Memoir by Sherman Alexie: In this family memoir set on the
Spokane Indian Reservation, Alexie (author of The Lone Ranger and
Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) connects, with humor and poignancy, the
troubled life of his whip-smart and sometimes-cruel mother to the
history of oppression and violence suffered by the larger American
Indian community.
- Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by
George Saunders: Set in 1862, at a ghost-filled cemetery where
President Lincoln’s beloved son Willie has been laid to rest, this
first novel by acclaimed short-story-writer and essayist George
Saunders will upend your expectations and leave you hooting with
laughter when you aren’t wiping away your tears.
- The Impossible Fortress: A Novel
by Jason Rekulak: A coming-of-age story tucked inside a love letter
to the strange and wonderful 1980s. It's one of those rare and
special books: once you've finished it, you’ll want all your
friends to read it immediately.
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by
Roxane Gay: In this brutally honest and brave memoir, the
bestselling author of Bad Feminist recounts how a childhood sexual
assault led her to purposely gain weight in order to be unseen and
therefore feel safe; it’s a story that will inspire you to be more
considerate of the bodies of others and more accepting of your
own.
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of
Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: With Homo Deus, Yuval Noah
Harari follows up his bestselling Sapiens—which looked back at the
last 70,000 years of human evolution and history—with a look
forward. In short, where do we go from here?
To see the complete list of the Best Books of the Year So Far,
and to purchase in Kindle or Print, visit:
www.amazon.com/bestbookssofar.
For in-depth reviews and coverage of the books featured on the
Best Books of the Year So Far list, as well as insightful reviews
on new books, author interviews, and roundups in popular categories
from the Amazon Books Editorial team, visit the Amazon Book Review:
www.omnivoracious.com.
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