It's time to start looking back at our favorite reads of the year, and it's quite an impressive batch of page-turners. Our picks run the gamut, from scandalous historical fiction to riveting memoirs and epic YA fantasy. It's a wonder we've been able to get anything done with all the reading to be had. Ahead, check out more than 100 new books you'll want to devour as we close out the year. Happy reading!
— Additional reporting by Brenda Janowitz, Hilary White, and Ebony LaDelle
The Bookshop at Water’s End by Patti Callahan Henry
New York Times bestselling novelist Patti Callahan Henry says "[b]ookshops are sanctuaries," and it is this idea that has inspired her latest novel, The Bookshop at Water's End. When a doctor makes a tragic mistake in the emergency room, she seeks solace at Water's End, the seaside town where she spent childhood Summers camped out at the local bookshop. Her best friend soon joins her, and they reunite with the bookstore owner. A great read about finding yourself and returning home. Buy the Book
Other Top Books
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
The Futures by Anna Pitoniak
The Wicked City by Beatriz Williams
Pretty Little World by Melissa DePino and Elizabeth LaBan
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty
Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson
I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi
The Odds of You and Me by Cecilia Galante
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
Always by Sarah Jio
My (Not So) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot
Windy City Blues by Renee Rosen
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
Dangerous Games by Danielle Steel
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser
It Happens All the Time by Amy Hatvany
Conviction by Julia Dahl
And Then There Was Me by Sadeqa Johnson
The Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan Meyers
White Sand, Blue Sea by Anita Hughes
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
How to Be Married by Jo Piazza
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Startup by Doree Shafrir
The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner
Crimes Against a Book Club by Kathy Cooperman
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith
The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
Saints For All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes
Every Wild Heart by Meg Donohue
According to a Source by Abby Stern
Allie and Bea by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Reminders by Val Emmich
Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
The Good Widow by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
The Sunshine Sisters by Jane Green
The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro
The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor
The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand
The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
The Chalk Artist by Allegra Goodman
Our Little Racket by Angelica Baker
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown
Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani
Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica
Who Is Rich? by Matthew Klam
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
The Bookshop at Water’s End by Patti Callahan Henry
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Fitness Junkie by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
The Library of Light and Shadow by M.J. Rose
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
The Address by Fiona Davis
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
The Fifth Trimester by Lauren Smith Brody
Hourglass by Dani Shapiro
Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
My Life With Bob by Pamela Paul
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
A New Model by Ashley Graham
The Currency of Love by Jill Dodd
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen
The Stars in Our Eyes by Julie Klam
Beautiful Bodies by Kimberly Rae Miller
The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Always and Forever by Jenny Han
Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Once and For All by Sarah Dessen
Rabbit by Patricia Williams With Jeannine Amber
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The One that Got Away by Melissa Pimentel
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda
Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller
The Blackbird Season by Kate Moretti
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner
The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
December 30, 2017
by TARA BLOCK