Books 2017 (List 2)

1.
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating β€” 113,824 ratings
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HHhH
HHhH 4.07 avg rating β€” 27,464 ratings
3.
Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It
Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It 3.50 avg rating β€” 271 ratings
4.
The Paris Review Interviews, IV (The Paris Review Interviews, 4)
The Paris Review Interviews, IV (The Paris Review Interviews, 4) 4.29 avg rating β€” 329 ratings
5.
Granta 114: Aliens
Granta 114: Aliens 3.72 avg rating β€” 113 ratings
6.
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis 3.26 avg rating β€” 18,388 ratings
7.
Granta 118: Exit Strategies
Granta 118: Exit Strategies 3.85 avg rating β€” 109 ratings
8.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 4.27 avg rating β€” 2,095 ratings
9.
Going Down
Going Down 3.66 avg rating β€” 129 ratings
10.
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book 4.06 avg rating β€” 2,823 ratings
11.
Light Box
Light Box
by: K.J. Orr
3.48 avg rating β€” 254 ratings
12.
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories 3.85 avg rating β€” 51,304 ratings
13.
Granta 117: Horror
Granta 117: Horror 3.56 avg rating β€” 304 ratings
14.
The Refugees
The Refugees 3.87 avg rating β€” 21,717 ratings
15.
That’s Your Lot
That’s Your Lot
by: Limmy
3.84 avg rating β€” 1,228 ratings
16.
The Islamist
The Islamist
by: Ed Husain
3.78 avg rating β€” 1,566 ratings
17.
Petit Mal
Petit Mal 3.12 avg rating β€” 83 ratings
18.
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by: Tim Wu
4.08 avg rating β€” 4,775 ratings
19.
Open City
Open City
by: Teju Cole
3.49 avg rating β€” 17,168 ratings
20.
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto 3.65 avg rating β€” 2,680 ratings
21.
All One Breath
All One Breath 4.18 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
22.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Against Interpretation and Other Essays 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,994 ratings
23.
Springer’s Progress
Springer’s Progress 3.90 avg rating β€” 241 ratings
24.
Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed
Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed 3.92 avg rating β€” 3,689 ratings
25.
The House in Smyrna
The House in Smyrna 3.72 avg rating β€” 623 ratings
26.
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,291 ratings
27.
Encounter
Encounter 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,844 ratings
28.
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial 4.12 avg rating β€” 10,806 ratings
29.
The Art of Travel
The Art of Travel 3.82 avg rating β€” 25,532 ratings
30.
The Iron Age
The Iron Age 3.83 avg rating β€” 222 ratings
31.
The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead 3.34 avg rating β€” 1,828 ratings
32.
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 4.15 avg rating β€” 850 ratings
33.
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction 3.96 avg rating β€” 16,340 ratings
34.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating β€” 89,864 ratings
35.
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing 4.04 avg rating β€” 971 ratings
36.
Men Without Women
Men Without Women 3.74 avg rating β€” 121,052 ratings
37.
Notes from No Man's Land
Notes from No Man's Land
by: Eula Biss
4.18 avg rating β€” 3,798 ratings
38.
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos 4.21 avg rating β€” 7,894 ratings
39.
The Low Voices
The Low Voices 3.60 avg rating β€” 200 ratings
40.
The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom (The Paris Review Interviews, 3)
The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom (The Paris Review Interviews, 3) 4.35 avg rating β€” 384 ratings
41.
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,086 ratings
42.
On Immunity: An Inoculation
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by: Eula Biss
3.94 avg rating β€” 11,711 ratings
43.
La Septième Fonction du langage
La Septième Fonction du langage 3.76 avg rating — 6,630 ratings
44.
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,201 ratings
45.
Home and Away
Home and Away 3.84 avg rating β€” 714 ratings
46.
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things 3.70 avg rating β€” 3,735 ratings
47.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating β€” 78,726 ratings
48.
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays 3.83 avg rating β€” 6,109 ratings
49.
The Inescapable Self: An Introduction To Western Philosophy Since Descartes
The Inescapable Self: An Introduction To Western Philosophy Since Descartes 4.12 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
50.
Suicide
Suicide 3.74 avg rating β€” 1,422 ratings
51.
Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating β€” 117,712 ratings
52.
The Apartment
The Apartment 3.03 avg rating β€” 2,190 ratings
53.
Reservoir 13
Reservoir 13 3.55 avg rating β€” 13,675 ratings
54.
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 3.47 avg rating β€” 246 ratings
55.
The End of Eddy
The End of Eddy 3.94 avg rating β€” 35,564 ratings
56.
All We Shall Know
All We Shall Know 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,587 ratings
57.
The Death of the Liberal Class
The Death of the Liberal Class 4.06 avg rating β€” 3,601 ratings
58.
Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) 3.33 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
59.
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto
Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto 3.32 avg rating β€” 388 ratings
60.
Bluets
Bluets 4.06 avg rating β€” 54,795 ratings
61.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet 4.40 avg rating β€” 35,762 ratings
62.
Nocilla Dream
Nocilla Dream 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,453 ratings
63.
My Documents
My Documents really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,435 ratings
64.
How Literature Saved My Life
How Literature Saved My Life 3.35 avg rating β€” 878 ratings
65.
The Hatred of Poetry
The Hatred of Poetry 3.80 avg rating β€” 3,478 ratings
66.
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America 3.83 avg rating β€” 871 ratings
67.
Time Travel: A History
Time Travel: A History 3.58 avg rating β€” 4,630 ratings
68.
Football
Football 3.22 avg rating β€” 161 ratings
69.
A Preparation for Death
A Preparation for Death 3.59 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
70.
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher 3.74 avg rating β€” 4,765 ratings
71.
Memory Theatre
Memory Theatre 3.54 avg rating β€” 648 ratings
72.
Down Below
Down Below 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,973 ratings
73.
Street of Thieves
Street of Thieves 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,548 ratings
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Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love
Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love 3.70 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
75.
Between Them: Remembering My Parents
Between Them: Remembering My Parents 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,149 ratings
76.
You Should Have Left
You Should Have Left 3.42 avg rating β€” 13,923 ratings
77.
Dying: A Memoir
Dying: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating β€” 4,609 ratings
78.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating β€” 36,094 ratings
79.
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward 4.09 avg rating β€” 16,683 ratings
80.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.10 avg rating β€” 21,775 ratings
81.
In the Dark Room: a Journey in Memory
In the Dark Room: a Journey in Memory 3.93 avg rating β€” 210 ratings
82.
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife 4.08 avg rating β€” 6,477 ratings
83.
Speedboat
Speedboat 3.76 avg rating β€” 7,256 ratings
84.
The Architecture of Happiness
The Architecture of Happiness 3.86 avg rating β€” 14,209 ratings
85.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating β€” 19,295 ratings
86.
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression 4.06 avg rating β€” 668 ratings
87.
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,299 ratings
88.
Violence: Terrorism, Genocide, War
Violence: Terrorism, Genocide, War 3.91 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
89.
Pitch Dark
Pitch Dark 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,622 ratings
90.
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously 3.81 avg rating β€” 780 ratings
91.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating β€” 29,309 ratings
92.
From A to X: A Story in Letters
From A to X: A Story in Letters 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,710 ratings
93.
Beat: The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart
Beat: The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart 4.21 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
94.
I Remember
I Remember 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,793 ratings
95.
The Up-Down
The Up-Down 3.60 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
96.
Unforbidden Pleasures: Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality
Unforbidden Pleasures: Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality 3.82 avg rating β€” 704 ratings
97.
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City 3.34 avg rating β€” 1,170 ratings
98.
Room Temperature
Room Temperature 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,139 ratings
99.
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating β€” 42,037 ratings
100.
The Things We Don't Do
The Things We Don't Do 3.80 avg rating β€” 522 ratings