The 10 best books of 2017 so far, according to Amazon
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One of life’s greatest pleasures is opening up a good book for the first time and not setting it down until you’ve excavated everything inside of it.
Once you leave school and all mandatory English classes with well-informed syllabi, though, the sheer amount of books out there is overwhelming. Sometimes instead of picking the wrong one to devote our time to, we pick none.
If working through a list of the great literary classics doesn’t appeal to you and you’d prefer to read something that better engages with now, "best books of the year" lists are going to be the best resource out there, second (maybe) only to word-of-mouth recommendations from close friends.
Below are the 10 books Amazon's book editors think are the best to come out so far this calendar year; many of them have been featured in op-eds and other critical areas of pop culture.
The great thing about such a wide category as "best books of the year" is that you’ll get the best without narrowing your search to a genre. Here you have novels and memoirs of vastly different topics and authors, yet they all (at least based on their growing popularity) will pay you back for any cautious investment of your time.
If you have a flight coming up or a long commute to work, one of these 10 might be a great new companion.
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1. "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A novel" by Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy's new novel, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," is an intricate and graceful story of lives touched by magic, broken by tragedy, and mended with love. It's an exceptional work of storytelling well worth the 20-year wait since "The God of Small Things."
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2. "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann
Smart, taut, and gripping, Grann’s true-if-largely-unknown tale of big oil and serial murder on the Osage Indian Reservation in the 1920s is sobering for how it is at once unsurprising and unbelievable, full of the arrogance, and inhumanity that our society still has yet to overcome.
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3. "Beartown: A Novel" by Fredrik Backman
The author of "A Man Called" sidesteps the predictable as he forges a new path of soul-searching and truth-telling in his gripping new novel about a small, hockey-mad town whose hopes and loyalties are torn apart by a crime no one wants to believe happened.
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