Over at Booklist, the Adult Books editors selected the following titles as representative of the year’s outstanding books for public library collections, including 13 Macmillan titles:
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2017 (full list)
Fiction
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
FRESH COMPLAINT by Jeffrey Eugenides
MARLENA by Julie Buntin
THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott
NO ONE CAN PRONOUNCE MY NAME by Rakesh Satyal
SOME RISE BY SIN by Philip Caputo
Poetry
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
Social Sciences
BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
Read Donna Seaman’s Carnegie Award shortlist interview with Ellsberg
I WAS TOLD TO COME ALONE: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
Geography & Travel
NOTES ON A FOREIGN COUNTRY: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Audio for Adults, 2017 (full list)
GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny, read by Robert Bathurst
Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2017 (full list)
A GOOD COUNTRY by Laleh Khadivi