Half of 2017 is gone and it is time to look back at what has been good and what’s been the best this year so far. With a deluge of books being published each year and reducing hours that we get to read, it has become important to find good books that we can enjoy. Our Best NonFiction Books of 2017 list is a collection of memoirs, and book that takes you to the future, and one that takes you into the past in the restive Oklahoma plains.
5 Best NonFiction Books of 2107
Here’s list of nonfiction books picked by Amazon editors. Have you read any of these? Tell us which of these is your favorite or which one looks most enticing to you?
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books (May 2, 2017)
ISBN: 1594633738, 978-1594633737
When Patricia Lockwood temporarily moves back in with her parents—her father, a Catholic priest who loves electric guitars; her mother, focused on disasters and Satan worshippers—she returns, as well, to the memories of her upbringing. Poetically precise language and darkly hilarious observations spark zingers that will make you rethink your own childhood indoctrinations.
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (June 13, 2017)
ISBN: 031627075X, 978-0316270755
In this family memoir set on the Spokane Indian Reservation, Alexie (author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) connects, with humor and poignancy, the troubled life of his whip-smart and sometimes-cruel mother to the history of oppression and violence suffered by the larger American Indian community.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Harper; 1st Edition edition (February 21, 2017)
ISBN: 0062464310, 978-0062464316
With Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari follows up his bestselling Sapiens—which looked back at the last 70,000 years of human evolution and history—with a look forward. In short, where do we go from here?
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Harper (June 13, 2017)
ISBN: 0062362593, 978-0062362599
In this brutally honest and brave memoir, the bestselling author of Bad Feminist recounts how a childhood sexual assault led her to purposely gain weight in order to be unseen and therefore feel safe; it’s a story that will inspire you to be more considerate of the bodies of others and more accepting of your own.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (April 18, 2017)
ISBN-10: 0385534248, 978-0385534246
Smart, taut and gripping, Grann’s true-if-largely-unknown tale of big oil and serial murder on the Osage Indian Reservation in the 1920s is sobering: at once unsurprising and unbelievable, full of the arrogance and inhumanity that our society has yet to overcome.
Read these amazing stories and tell us which of these have made it to your Best NonFction books of 2017 list.