We interviewed Gay about the book earlier this year.” -Amy Brady It’s a panoramic view of transgressive womanhood in a world with too many conflicting demands for what a woman should be. “The women in these stories are ‘difficult’ because they’re untameable. It’s the best afrofuturist “hard sci-fi” I’ve ever read.” -Adam Morgan Set in the same continuity as Olukotun’s first novel, Nigerians in Space, this books stands on its own. “When a solar storm destroys most of the world’s electric grid, Nigeria’s space program is the only remaining institution capable of rescuing astronauts stranded on the ISS. We interviewed her in February.” -Rachel León Set amid the social and political background of Japan in the early twentieth century, it’s a fascinating meditation on identity, shame, and struggle.
This thick historical multigenerational saga is heartbreaking and beautiful. “Min Jin Lee’s new novel isn’t exactly light reading, but don’t let that stop you from picking it up. We interviewed her about Eat Only earlier this year.” -Adam Morgan Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, it’s a remarkable novel about parenthood and addiction. To find him, Greg travels from West Virginia to Florida, revealing his past along the way. “Lindsay Hunter’s fourth book is the story of Greg, an obese, 58-year-old retiree whose son, a drug addict, goes missing.
“I discovered Hossain a few years ago because of his first novel, Escape From Baghdad!, a ‘cross between Zero Dark Thirty and Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ His second, Djinn City, is a really clever, really fun Gothic horror/fantasy/comedy set in the sprawling city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, based on figures from Arabian mythology.” -Adam Morgan
#BEST READS 2017 FICTION HOW TO#
Surprisingly funny, it’s a heartbreaking novel with a shocking denouement. We interviewed her about How To Behave earlier this year, and it won the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction.” -Adam Morgan When a tragedy strikes his family, Isidore Mazal takes it upon himself to heal them. “Set in small-town France, Camille Bordas’s debut novel in her second language is told through the voice of an eleven-year-old boy. Check back later for our favorite nonfiction, poetry, comics, and book covers. Here are the best fiction books of 2017 according the editors and contributors at the Chicago Review of Books. It’s the most wonderful time of the year: best-of lists! Unlike those tacky goblins at Publishers Weekly, who published their lists in OCTOBER, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, we have the common decency to wait until December.
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