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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2017

Special Feature

Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2017

Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group in 2017 and your favorite book that you read outside your group.

The results are in! Below are the top 10 selected titles in each category.

A special congratulations to our contest winner, Helen B. from Buffalo, NY, who won a collection of six fabulous book group titles releasing this year: AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones, EDUCATED: A Memoir by Tara Westover, EVERY NOTE PLAYED by Lisa Genova, THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah, THE IMMORTALISTS by Chloe Benjamin, and THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A. J. Finn.
 


 

Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult
THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng
NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles
ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger
BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan
CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff

Top 10 Books Read Outside of Your Group: 
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by Mark Sullivan
THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah
BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng
SMALL GREAT THINGS by Jodi Picoult
THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood
NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles
THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE by Lisa See
ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman