Books of 2017

Favorites below. Everything else here.

• Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin
• The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young
• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chast
• Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles
• Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle
• Grieving: A Beginner's Guide by By Jerusha Hull McCormack
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros
• Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
• I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work by Julie Jansen
• I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
• The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death by David Shields
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Lean Out by Dawn Foster
• The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke
• The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks by Robin Romm
• The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression by Darian Leader
• Patience by Daniel Clowes
• Rebecca Ringquist’s Embroidery Workshops: A Bend-the-Rules Primer by Rebecca Ringquist
• Returning Home: Reconnecting with Our Childhoods by Jerry M. Burger
• Salad for President: A Cookbook Inspired by Artists by Julia Sherman
• Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin
• Stir, Sizzle, Bake: Recipes for Your Cast-Iron Skillet by Charlotte Druckman
• The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America by Mark Sundeen
• Valletta78 by Erin Fitzgerald
• Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century by Candi K. Cann
• What We Lose: A Novel by Zinzi Clemmons
• A Year of Picnics: Recipes for Dining Well in the Great Outdoors by Ashley English