When we published our list of the 10 Best Books of 2017, we asked you to name your favorite reads of the year over on our Facebook page. Hundreds of you responded. Here are just 10 of the thoughtful and enthusiastic recommendations you gave us.
These responses have been edited for length and clarity.
“My Absolute Darling,” by Gabriel Tallent. A brutal, brilliant stunner. Unforgettable. The landscape of Northern California is as much of a character in the story as the human inhabitants, and the female protagonist Turtle will break your heart and save you all the same. — Suzie Gumm
“The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas. It’s a relevant, timely portrayal of the complicated issues our country is facing in regard to race, and how we dig in our heels to defend our stance before taking the time to look at things from another point of view. — Erin Everidge
“Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders. His tale of grief, told through the voices of ghosts both real and imagined, was just a beautiful, unusual and powerful read. Saunders’s writing elicits laughs and tears in equal measure, and it has a lot to say about being human, about suffering and pleasure, history, culture, memory and time. One of the best books I’ve read. Ever. — Nancy Aravecz Shah
“Turtles All the Way Down,” by John Green. As someone with an anxiety disorder, I loved the realistic portrayal of a character with mental illness. Aza’s thought spirals were so familiar to me. His depiction of what it’s like to live with a mental illness can really help people who don’t suffer from one understand what it can be like, and hopefully remove some of the stigma from the topic. — Abbie Ford
“Norse Mythology,” by Neil Gaiman. I grew up in a Norwegian town and am over half Norwegian myself. It was a lot of fun reading a newly imagined account of Norse mythology all in one book. Given my roots, I think I would have loved this book as a kid. — Scott Inglett
“The Heart’s Invisible Furies,” by John Boyne. A powerful, eye-opening story of the different stages of life of a character who was gay in postwar Ireland. It showed the isolation and loneliness of someone who had to hide his lifestyle and the very real dangers if he didn’t. So many tears. — Shama Hussain
“The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying,” by Nina Riggs. I don’t know how a book about a woman dying of cancer managed to be so uplifting, but it was. — Brooke McDonald
“You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” by Sherman Alexie. It’s a painful, intimate account of death, mourning and loss. For me, it was just what the doctor ordered — something I could weep over, something that would hollow me out and make me reflect on grief. While much of the book discusses the hardships of living on a reservation in 21st-century America, for me, it was the awful doom of losing a loved one that sold the story. I haven’t read a book that connects to the pain of ancestors — and how the weight of that pain bears down on the living — since I read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” — Monica Lyons Heller
“My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward,” by Mark Lukach. It absolutely gutted me. It was so many things at once: an adorably devoted love story, a memoir of mental illness, an admittance of anger and guilt, a story of resilience. It offered a perspective I feel is underserved in mental health writing, and while I found it hard emotionally to continue at times, it will stay with me for a long time. — Nikki Goerz
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