{"id":18646,"date":"2017-12-15T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=18646"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:26:54","slug":"best-of-the-best-books-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/best-of-the-best-books-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Best Books of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quartzy.qz.com\/1143800\/the-best-books-of-2017-if-you-combine-21-best-books-of-2017-lists\/\" target=\"_new\">Someone<\/a> has taken a several Best Books of 2017 lists and coallated the information into a single list that weights the books based on how many times they appeared on the best of lists.<\/p>\n<p>You know me; any list of books, and I make it a quiz. <\/p>\n<p>So here we go: Which of best books of 2017 have I read?  I have put in <strong>bold<\/strong> the books I have read; I have put in <font color=\"red\">red<\/font> the books I own and have yet to read, and in <u>underline<\/u> books that I want to get someday.<\/p>\n<p>For the fiction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/em> by Jesmyn Ward<\/li>\n<li><em>Lincoln in the Bardo<\/em> by George Saunders<\/li>\n<li><em>Exit West<\/em> by Mohsin Hamid<\/li>\n<li><em>Manhattan Beach<\/em> by Jennifer Egan<\/li>\n<li><em>Little Fires Everywhere<\/em> by Celeste Ng<\/li>\n<li><em>White Tears<\/em> by Hari Kunzru<\/li>\n<li><em>The Power<\/em> by Naomi Alderman<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ninth Hour<\/em> by Alice McDermott<\/li>\n<li><em>The Answers<\/em> by Catherine Lacey<\/li>\n<li><em>What We Lose<\/em> by Zinzi Clemmons<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness<\/em> by Arundhati Roy<\/li>\n<li><em>Pachinko<\/em> by Min Jin Lee<\/li>\n<li><em>Mrs. Fletcher<\/em> by Tom Perrotta<\/li>\n<li><em>Ill Will<\/em> by Dan Chaon<\/li>\n<li><em>Her Body and Other Parties<\/em> by Carmen Maria Machado<\/li>\n<li><em>Goodbye, Vitamin<\/em> by Rachel Khong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the nonfiction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em> by David Grann<\/li>\n<li><em>We Were Eight Years in Power<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n<li><em>The Rules Do Not Apply<\/em> by Ariel Levy<\/li>\n<li><em>The Future Is History<\/em> by Masha Gessen<\/li>\n<li><em>You Don\u2019t Have to Say You Love Me<\/em> by Sherman Alexie<\/li>\n<li><em>Priestdaddy<\/em> by Patricia Lockwood<\/li>\n<li><em>Hunger<\/em> by Roxane Gay<\/li>\n<li><em>Homo Deus<\/em> by Yuval Noah Harari<\/li>\n<li><em>What Happened<\/em> by Hillary Clinton<\/li>\n<li><em>The Evolution of Beauty<\/em> by Richard O. Prum<\/li>\n<li><em>Sticky Fingers<\/em> by Joe Hagan<\/li>\n<li><em>Locking Up Our Own<\/em> by James Forman Jr.<\/li>\n<li><em>Leonardo da Vinci<\/em> by Walter Isaacson<\/li>\n<li><em>Grant<\/em> by Ron Chernow<\/li>\n<li><em>Behave<\/em> by Robert M. Sapolsky<\/li>\n<li><em>Ants Among Elephants<\/em> by Sujatha Gidla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>Not a damned one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you, gentle reader, be the judge of whether that more indicts books published in 2017 or the taste of people who publish Best Books Of lists.  To be honest, more likely the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has taken a several Best Books of 2017 lists and coallated the information into a single list that weights the books based on how many times they appeared on the best of lists. You know me; any list of books, and I make it a quiz. So here we go: Which of best books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18648,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions\/18648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}