So many books, so little time—part 11.
My son started keeping a reading list in third grade, so I did too. This is the 11th year we’ve done this.
My favorite books of 2017 were probably The Mothers, by Britt Bennett; Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Commonwealth by Ann Patchett; Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman; The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Anyway, I’d love to hear about other people’s favorite books this year.
| Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Jesse | Andrews |
| Home Again | Kristin | Hannah |
| The Bookseller | Cynthia | Swanson |
| Leave Me | Gayle | Forman |
| Suite 606 | J.D. | Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas |
| The Mothers | Britt | Bennett |
| Big Girl Panties | Stephanie | Evanovich |
| The Wangs Vs. the World | Jade | Chang |
| The Nest | Cynthia | D’Aprix Sweeney |
| The Housewife Assassin’s Deadly Dossier | Josie | Brown |
| I Was Here | Gayle | Forman |
| Scrappy Little Nobody | Anna | Kendrick |
| There Goes the Bride | Holly | McQueen |
| Ship of Brides | Jojo | Moyes |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson | Whitehead |
| Swift as Desire | Laura | Esquivel |
| Confetti Confidential | Holly | McQueen |
| The Weekenders | Mary Kay | Andrews |
| When I’m Gone | Emily | Bleeker |
| First Comes Love | Emily | Giffin |
| Three Wishes | Liane | Moriarty |
| Truly Madly Guilty | Liane | Moriarty |
| Save the Date | Jen | Doll |
| The Year of Voting Dangerously | Maureen | Dowd |
| Everybody’s Fool | Richard | Russo |
| Where She Went | Gayle | Forman |
| Two by Two | Nicolas | Sparks |
| Talking as Fast as I Can | Lauren | Graham |
| Unrivaled | Alyson | Noel |
| Nothing That is Ours | DJ | Palladino |
| Fangirl | Rainbow | Rowell |
| We are all Completely Beside Ourselves | Karen Joy | Fowler |
| What Light | Jay | Asher |
| If Not For You | Debbie | Macomber |
| Americanah | Chimamanda | Ngozi Adichie |
| Who Asked You? | Terry | McMillan |
| Connect the Stars | Marisa | de Los santos & David Teague |
| The Knockoff | Lucy | Sykes & Jo Piazza |
| 44 Cranberry Point | Debbie | Macomber |
| From Notting Hill to Love Actually | Ali | McNamara |
| The Postmistress | Sarah | Blake |
| You’ll Grow Out Of It | Jesi | Klein |
| The Awkward Age | Francesca | Segal |
| Queen Takes King | Gigi | Levangie Grazer |
| Into the Woods | Tana | French |
| Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine | Gail | Honeyman |
| Bright Precious Days | Jay | McInerney |
| Being Mortal | Atul | Gawande |
| The Hynotist’s Love Story | Liane | Moriarty |
| Boys in the Trees | Carly | Simon |
| The Sun is Also a Star | Nicola | Yoon |
| American Housewife | Helen | Ellis |
| Prejudice & Pride | Rachel | Anderson |
| The Bookshop on the Corner | Rebecca | Raisin |
| All the Bright Places | Jennifer | Niven |
| A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend | Felicity | Huffman & Patricia Wolff |
| The Girlfriend Curse | Valerie | Frankel |
| The Divorce Papers | Susan | Rieger |
| The After Party | Anton | DiSclafani |
| The Worst Day of My Life So Far | M.A. | Harper |
| It’s Always the Husband | Michele | Campbell |
| The Girl in the Spider’s Web | David | Lagercrantz |
| Commonwealth | Ann | Patchett |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George | Saunders |
| To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before | Jenny | Han |
| The Jane Austen Project | Kathleen A. | Flynn |
| The Great Escape | Susan Elizabeth | Phillips |
| The Grown Up | Gillian | Flynn |
| The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen | Syrie | James |
| We’ll Always Have Summer | Jenny | Han |
| The Sunshine Sisters | Jane | Green |
| The Time of My Life: A Novel | Cecilia | Ahern |
| The View From the Cheap Seats | Neil | Gaiman |
| What Happened | Hillary Rodham | Clinton |
| My Brilliant Friend | Elena | Ferrante |
| Winter Storms | Elin | Hilderbrand |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa | Lahiri |
| What She Knew | Gilly | MacMillan |
| Irish Eyes | Mary Kay | Andrews |
| Carry On | Rainbow | Rowell |