PW’s Best Books of 2017

Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2017 list includes 20 Macmillan titles:

Top 10 (full list)
ANTS AMONG ELEPHANTS: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
FEAR CITY: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
GRIEF COTTAGE by Gail Godwin

Fiction (full list)
BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
MARLENA by Julie Buntin
THE SEVENTH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE by Laurent Binet
GRIEF COTTAGE by Gail Godwin

Poetry (full list)
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith

SF/Fantasy/Horror (full list)
THE BEDLAM STACKS by Natasha Pulley

Comics (full list)
BOUNDLESS by Jillian Tamaki
MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS by Nagata Kabi

Nonfiction (full list)
ANTS AMONG ELEPHANTS: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
THE EXILE: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy
THE GOURMANDS’ WAY: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy by Justin Spring
I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
THE SECRET LIFE: Three True Stories of the Digital Age by Andrew O’Hagan
FEAR CITY: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein

Lifestyle (full list)
THE HUNGRY BRAIN: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephan Guyenet

Check out our Edelweiss collection of Macmillan’s Best Books of 2017 for collection development made easy. We’ll update it as more “Best of 2017” lists come in.