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Mint Best Books of the Year 2017

Mint (HT Media)'s Mint Best Books of the Year 2017 names 25 books. 21 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.

  1. A Life Of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharmasource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevensonsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Exit West by Mohsin Hamidsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowellsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machadosource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsiesource (opens in a new tab)
  7. Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfeghsource (opens in a new tab)
  8. Leila by Prayaag Akbarsource (opens in a new tab)
  9. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunderssource (opens in a new tab)
  10. Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofskysource (opens in a new tab)
  11. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstrasource (opens in a new tab)
  12. Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous by Manu Josephsource (opens in a new tab)
  13. My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallentsource (opens in a new tab)
  14. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Wardsource (opens in a new tab)
  15. Sour Heart by Jenny Zhangsource (opens in a new tab)
  16. Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyòsource (opens in a new tab)
  17. The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnitsource (opens in a new tab)
  18. The Power by Naomi Aldermansource (opens in a new tab)
  19. The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smithsource (opens in a new tab)
  20. We That Are Young by Preti Tanejasource (opens in a new tab)
  21. We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coatessource (opens in a new tab)
  22. What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimahsource (opens in a new tab)
  23. When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamysource (opens in a new tab)
  24. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodgesource (opens in a new tab)
  25. Winter by Ali Smithsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Mint Best Books of the Year

Mint Lounge's year-end editorial picks of the year's books. 2017: Lounge's 25 books from 2017 that stayed with us (Sana Goyal). 2020: Lounge picks, 10 books from India we loved in 2020 (Somak Ghoshal). 2025: Team Lounge's favourite reads of 2025, 20 books, plus the same page's sidebar of 5 books for young readers we loved (listed under Books for Young Readers). No list found for 2006-2016, 2018 or 2022. Left out: 2019's The books of 2019 you should not miss, a business-books column by Vivek Kaul in Lounge's Business of Life section, not Lounge's main books list; 2023's year-end essay by Somak Ghoshal, which names books in prose sections, so any list drawn from it would be our selection, not Mint's; 2021's Our year in reading (staff reading notes, mostly on older books); 2024's The year in books: hits and misses of 2024 (an essay on Indian publishing, not a list); and a 2016 Opinion column on four books. livemint.com blocks AI crawlers, so every page was read through Wayback Machine copies of the livemint.com and lifestyle.livemint.com URLs. Author and translator names follow the page spelling. Picture-book illustrators are listed as co-authors. No list is ranked.

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