#Good books best reads 2017 free#
Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Blaine, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Gabrielle Glaser, American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoptionįarah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understandįiona Hill, There Is Nothing For You Hereĭara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present Glenn Frankel, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic Peter Ho Davies, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country: A MemoirĪi Weiwei, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrowsĭonald Antrim, One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survivalīrian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir Wole Soyinka, Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night Paul McCartney, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present Adrian Nathan West, When We Cease to Understand the World Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous FamilyĪndrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American CityĪkwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit MemoirĮlizabeth Hinton, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960sīenjamin Labatut, tr.
Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the ForestĬhristine Smallwood, The Life of the MindĬlaire Vaye Watkins, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeĪlison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black GirlĪlexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the SunĮlizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman, The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, DependencyĪshley C. George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain