Best Fiction Books of 2017 by Buzz Feed News

Title: All Grown Up

Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's ...

Author(s): Jami Attenberg

ISBN 13: 9780544824249
Pages: 208

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: Large Animals

Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debut.

Author(s): Jess Arndt

ISBN 13: 9781936787487
Pages: 144

Title: What it Means when a Man Falls from the Sky

The Future Looks Good -- War Stories -- Wild -- Second Chances -- Windfalls -- Who Will Greet You at Home -- Buchi's Girls -- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky -- Glory -- What Is a Volcano? -- Redemption

Author(s): Lesley Nneka Arimah

ISBN 13: 9780735211025
Pages: 230

Title: Turtles All the Way Down

Aza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire.

Author(s): John Green

ISBN 13: 9780525555360
Pages: 286

Title: Her Body and Other Parties

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay'A wild thing ... ...

Author(s): Carmen Maria Machado

ISBN 13: 9781781259528
Pages: 256

Title: New People

Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves.

Author(s): Danzy Senna

ISBN 13: 9781594487095
Pages: 229

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: Future Home of the Living God

An unexpected dystopian thriller from a writer of startling originality, Future Home of the Living God is also a moving meditation on female agency, love, self-determination, biology, and natural rights.

Author(s): Louise Erdrich

ISBN 13: 9780062694058
Pages: 352

Title: Goodbye, Vitamin

Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice.

Author(s): Rachel Khong

ISBN 13: 9781250109163
Pages: 208

Title: Five-carat Soul

An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives."--

Author(s): James McBride

ISBN 13: 9780735216693
Pages: 308

Title: The Idiot

The year is 1995, and email is new.

Author(s): Elif Batuman

ISBN 13: 9781594205613
Pages: 432

Title: Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

A bleakly comic tour de force that's by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles--and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.

Author(s): Patty Yumi Cottrell

ISBN 13: 9781944211301
Pages: 288

Title: The Refugees

A collection of stories written over a twenty-year period that examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.

Author(s): Viet Thanh Nguyen

ISBN 13: 9780802126399
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: 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: Idaho

A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.

Author(s): Emily Ruskovich

ISBN 13: 9780812994049
Pages: 308