UNFLINCHING LOOK AT DYING from an Australian writer is also a nuanced, touching life story. Brave, lovely. A MINUS

DYING: A MEMOIR (HARDCOVER)
Tin House Books
2017

BRILLIANT SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER! Ingenious plot revolves around teleportation and its discontents. A MINUS

THE PUNCH ESCROW
Inkshares
2017

EYE-OPENING, METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED account of the CIA’s Cold War meddling in the literary world. A MINUS

FINKS: HOW THE C.I.A. TRICKED THE WORLD’S BEST WRITERS
OR Books
2017

WONDERFULLY PLOTTED, WITTY English mystery bridges 20th and 21st century styles. Glorious page-turner! A MINUS

MAGPIE MURDERS (HARDCOVER)
Harper
2017

AN ARTIST HAUNTED BY his past unlocks some of the memories that torment him. Brilliant character study. A MINUS

SO MUCH BLUE A NOVEL
GRAYWOLF PRESS
2017

A WEARY-WISE NOIR QUEST with a supernatural twist has deep things to say about love, family, race in the US. A MINUS

THE TALENTED RIBKINS
Melville House Publishing
2017

A POET’S SACRED AND PROFANE, scathing yet sweet-natured, memoir of her eccentric, religion-addled family. A MINUS

PRIESTDADDY: A MEMOIR (HARDCOVER)
Riverhead Books
2017

MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF SCIENCE, and how they connect to our childhood intuitions, brilliantly explained. A MINUS

SCIENCEBLIND: WHY OUR INTUITIVE THEORIES ABOUT THE WORLD ARE SO OFTEN WRONG (HARDCOVER)
Basic Books
2017

RAW, BRUTALLY FRANK memoir from Sherman Alexis combines prose and poetry to tell his mother’s story. A MINUS

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME : A MEMOIR
Little Brown and Company
2017

BRILLIANT, ELECTRIFYING HYBRID memoir/cultural critique: Roxane Gay’s meditation on her (fat, Black) body. A MINUS

HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY (HARDCOVER)
Harper
2017