Sparkling new voices, curious genre-hybrids, future classics,and a stirring portrait of our time—2017’s standout books gave us everything. Arundhati Roy’s much awaited The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness didn’t disappoint, as Roy harnessed the dizzying plot with provocative prose and political erudition. Man Booker international prize winner David Grossman’s novel, A Horse Walks Into A Bar, focuses on a stand-up comic who begins to unspool on stage before an enthralled audience. But don’t go looking for loud laughs, this one is hard-hitting and unpredictable.
Of course, for a year filled with big wins for feminism, you can’t bypass South And West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion. Notes from the great American essayist’s arduous road trip through the American South in 1970, and her life in liberal, geologically-precarious California, make up this unsparing, eerily prescient portrait of a fractured America.
And there’s plenty more.
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