Barnes & Noble Announces the Best Books of 2017
November 20 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Curated List Features Top Picks Across
Fiction, Nonfiction, Teens, Kids, Mysteries & Thrillers and
History, Biography and Memoir as Chosen by Barnes & Noble's
Expert Booksellers
B&N List Arrives Just in Time to Help
Customers Find the Perfect Gift this Holiday Season
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world’s
largest retail bookseller, today announced the best books of 2017
as chosen by the Company's expert booksellers. The carefully
curated list is broken out by genre and comes just in time to
help customers across the country find the perfect gifts for the
holiday season. The list is online now at BN.com and features the
best of 2017 in fiction, nonfiction, teens, kids, mysteries &
thrillers, and history, biography and memoir. All titles are
available at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide and online.
“2017 was a great year in books, with some of the biggest
authors in the industry coming out with highly anticipated new
works and some new, remarkable authors coming onto the scene,” said
Liz Harwell, Senior Director of Merchandising, Trade Books at
Barnes & Noble. “This year more than ever the best books list
represents a diverse range of genres and interests, making it
another great resource for customers across the country looking to
find the perfect gift this holiday season.”
The best books of 2017 according to Barnes & Noble’s expert
booksellers, and categorized by genre, are:
Fiction
- In the Midst of Winter by Isabel
Allende
- Origin by Dan Brown
- The Late Show by Michael Connelly
- Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer
Egan
- Future Home of the Living God: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
- A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom
Hanks
- Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by
Joe Hill
- The Rules of Magic by Alice
Hoffman
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and
Owen King
- A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carré
- Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and
Future Nutcracker (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Gregory
Maguire
- The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste
Ng
- Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Gamache
Series #13) by Louise Penny
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George
Saunders
- The Women in the Castle by Jessica
Shattuck
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn
Ward
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa
Wingate
Nonfiction
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by
Sherman Alexie
- Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope,
Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson,
and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An
American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Future Is History: How
Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage
Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter
Isaacson
- Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime
of Discovery by Scott Kelly
- Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris
Matthews
- The American Spirit: Who We Are &
What We Stand For by David McCullough
- Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered
God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of
America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
- Code Girls: The Untold Story of the
American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
- Everything All at Once: How to Unleash
Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem
by Bill Nye
- Democracy: Stories from the Long Road
to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice
- Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for
Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
- Option B: Facing Adversity, Building
Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our
Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977 – 2002
by David Sedaris
- Basketball (and Other Things): A
Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated (B&N
Exclusive Edition) by Shea Serrano
- Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by
Neil deGrasse Tyson
- We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories
That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
Teens
- King’s Cage (Red Queen Series #3) by
Victoria Aveyard
- The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at
Freddy’s Series #2) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Scott
Cawthon and Kira Bree-Wrisley
- The Bone Witch (Bone Witch Series #1)
by Rin Chupeco
- Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices
Series #2) by Cassandra Clare
- Alex and Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa
de la Cruz
- Once and for All (Barnes & Noble
Exclusive Edition) by Sarah Dessen
- The Final Spark (Michael Vey Series #7)
by Richard Paul Evans
- Caraval (Caraval Series #1) by
Stephanie Garber
- Turtles All the Way Down by John
Green
- My Life as Eva: The Struggle is Real by
Eva Gutowski
- Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All
the Boys I’ve Loved Before Series #3) by Jenny Han
- The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen
Hopkins
- RoseBlood (Barnes & Noble Exclusive
Edition) by A.G. Howard
- We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
- Generation One (Lorien Legacies Reborn
Series #1) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Pittacus
Lore
- A Court of Wings and Ruin (Court of
Thorns and Roses Series #3) by Sarah J. Maas
- Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass Series
#6) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Sarah J. Maas
- The Battlemage (Summoner Trilogy Series
#3) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Taran Matharu
- One of Us Is Lying by Karen M.
McManus
- The End of Oz (Dorothy Must Die Series
#4) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Danielle Paige
- Crazy House by James Patterson and
Gabrielle Charbonnet
- Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
- The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by
Chelsea Sedoti
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Maddie Diaries: A Memoir by Maddie
Ziegler
Kids
- Minecraft: The Island by Max
Brooks
- She Persisted: 13 American Women Who
Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton and illustrator Alexandra
Boiger
- It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham
Clinton and illustrator Marla Frazee
- Worlds Collide (The Land of Stories
Series #6) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Chris
Colfer
- Rise of the Isle of the Lost
(Descendants Series #3) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by
Melissa de la Cruz
- Pete the Cat and the Cool Cat Boogie by
James Dean
- Through Your Eyes: My Child’s Gift to
Me by Ainsley Earhardt and illustrator Ji-Hyuk Kim
- Everything is Mama by Jimmy Fallon
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by
Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
- Princesses Wear Pants by Savannah
Guthrie, Allison Opphenheim and illustrator Eva Byrne
- The Elements Book (Barnes & Noble
Exclusive Poster Edition) by Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Staff
- Spy School Secret Service (Spy School
Series #5) (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Stuart Gibbs
- The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Series #12) (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) by Jeff
Kinney
- Uni the Unicorn and the Dream Come True
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrator Brigette Barrager
- The Magic Misfits (The Magic Misfits
Series #1) by Neil Patrick Harris and illustrator Lissy Marlin
- We’re All Wonders by R.J. Palacio
- Big Nate: What’s a Little Noogie
Between Friends? by Lincoln Peirce
- Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties (Captain
Underpants: Dog Man Series #3) by Dav Pilkey
- The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and
the Gods of Asgard Series #3) by Rick Riordan
- Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel by
Adam Rubin and illustrator Daniel Salmieri
- Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush
Catastrophe (Dork Diaries Series #12) by Rachel Renée Russell
- Runny Babbit Returns: Another Billy
Sook by Shel Silverstein
- Dream Big Dreams: Photographs from
Barack Obama’s Inspiring and Historic Presidency by Pete Souza
- The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine
by Mark Twain, Philip C. Stead and illustrator Erin Stead
- Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala
Yousafzai and illustrator Kerascoët
Mysteries & Thrillers
- The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
- End Game (Barnes & Noble Exclusive
Edition) by David Baldacci
- Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett Series #17)
by C.J. Box
- Origin by Dan Brown
- Watch Me Disappear by Janelle
Brown
- The Stolen Marriage: A Novel by Diane
Chamberlain
- The Midnight Line by Lee Child
- Don’t Let Go by Harlan Coben
- Two Kinds of Truth (Barnes & Noble
Exclusive Edition) by Michael Connelly
- The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
- The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
- Hardcore Twenty-Four (Stephanie Plum
Series #24) by Janet Evanovich
- Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone
Series #25) by Sue Grafton
- The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
- Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Mississippi Blood (Natchez Burning
Series #3) by Greg Iles
- The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
(Millennium Series #5) by David Lagercrantz
- A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carré
- Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
- Earthly Remains (Guido Brunetti Series
#26) by Donna Leon
- The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
- Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Gamache
Series #13) by Louise Penny
- Deep Freeze (Virgil Flowers Series #10)
by John Sandford
- Good Daughter: A Novel by Karin
Slaughter
- Heather, the Totality by Matthew
Weiner
History, Biography and Memoir
- You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by
Sherman Alexie
- Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope,
Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden
- Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the
American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson,
and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Tom Clavin
- It’s Not Yet Dark: A Memoir by Simon
Fitzmaurice
- The Future Is History: How
Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage
Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter
Isaacson
- The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular
Fall of God’s Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
- The Last Castle: The Epic Story of
Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by
Denise Kiernan
- The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by
Ariel Levy
- Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris
Matthews
- The American Spirit: Who We Are &
What We Stand For by David McCullough
- Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered
God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of
America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
- Code Girls: The Untold Story of the
American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
- Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied
Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by
Lynne Olson
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True
Story by Douglas Preston
- Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd,
Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport
- Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for
Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
- The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968
Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by
Doug Stanton
- Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
- We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories
That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
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