The 20 Best New Books of 2017 by BAZAAR

Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing

"A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--

Author(s): Jesmyn Ward

ISBN 13: 9781501126062
Pages: 304

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Title: The Rules Do Not Apply

"A ... memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on [the] ... writer's New Yorker ...

Author(s): Ariel Levy

ISBN 13: 9780812996937
Pages: 224

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Title: Little Fires Everywhere

"Traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives"--

Author(s): Celeste Ng

ISBN 13: 9780735224292
Pages: 338

Title: Exit West

Exit West is an epic compressed into a slender page-turner--both completely of our time and for all time, Mohsin Hamid's most ambitious and electrifying novel yet"--

Author(s): Mohsin Hamid

ISBN 13: 9780735212176
Pages: 240

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Title: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking.

Author(s): Gail Honeyman

ISBN 13: 9780735220683
Pages: 336

Title: Saints for All Occasions

"A sweeping novel about two sisters--one the matriarch of a boisterous Irish Catholic family, the other a cloistered nun, hidden from the world--and the secret that drove them apart"--

Author(s): J. Courtney Sullivan

ISBN 13: 9780307959577
Pages: 352

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Title: What We Lose

" --Buzzfeed "Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We Lose. . . . The book is a remarkable journey.

Author(s): Zinzi Clemmons

ISBN 13: 9780735221710
Pages: 224

Title: Lincoln in the Bardo

"--Harper's Magazine "The novel beats with a present-day urgency--a nation at war with itself, the unbearable grief of a father who has lost a child, and a howling congregation of ghosts, as divided in death as in life, unwilling to move on ...

Author(s): George Saunders

ISBN 13: 9780812995343
Pages: 368

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Title: A Separation

" --The New Yorker This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is what happened.

Author(s): Katie Kitamura

ISBN 13: 9780399576102
Pages: 240

Title: Anything Is Possible

Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life.

Author(s): Elizabeth Strout

ISBN 13: 9780812989403
Pages: 272

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Title: Hunger

Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and it tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be.

Author(s): Roxane Gay

ISBN 13: 9780062362599
Pages: 320

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Title: Marlena

Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water .

Author(s): Julie Buntin

ISBN 13: 9781627797641
Pages: 288

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Title: The Golden House

"When the aristocratic Golden family moves into a self contained pocket of New York City, a park in Greenwich Village called 'The Gardens,' their past is an absolute mystery.

Author(s): Salman Rushdie

ISBN 13: 9780399592805
Pages: 380

Title: Joni

"From album reviews, incisive commentary, and candid conversations, Joni: The Anthology includes, among other things, a review of Mitchell's first-ever show at LA's Troubadour in June of 1968, a 1978 interview by musician Ben Sidran on jazz ...

Author(s): Barney Hoskyns

ISBN 13: 9781250148629
Pages: 320

Title: My Life with Bob

"For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life she leads.

Author(s): Pamela Paul

ISBN 13: 9781627796316
Pages: 256

Title: Debriefing

A Summary: A collection of short fiction from the groundbreaking essayist, novelist, and political activist includes allegories and parables as she wrestles with topics that made up her private sorrows and fears

Author(s): Susan Sontag

ISBN 13: 9780374100759
Pages: 336

Title: Theft by Finding

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of 2017An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A Goodreads ...

Author(s): David Sedaris

ISBN 13: 9780316154727
Pages: 560