Best Books of 2017

BEST 20 BOOKS 2017
1. The Invention of Angela Carter: Biography by Edmund Gordon
2. Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
3. After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
4. Everything Is Combustible by Richard Lloyd
5. Lonely Boy by Steve Jones
6. Somebody With A Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill
7. Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rudiger Safranski
8. Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook
9. Vinyl, album, cover, art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue by Aubrey Powell
10. Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel






11. So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by Roger Steffans
12. Conversation With Edwidge Danticat by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (editor)
13. Acker by Douglas A. Martin
14. Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
15. I Am The Wolf: Lyrics and Writings by Mark Lanegan
16. Farewell To The Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick
17. The New Analog by Damon Krukowski
18. Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly
19. Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
20. MUTE: A Visual Document by Terry Burrows

 

FICTION
4321 by Paul Auster
The Future Won’t Be Long by Jarett Kobek
The Answers by Catherine Lacey
Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid