Best Books of 2017 / The Portable Infinite 20

BEST 20 BOOKS 2017

1. The Invention of Angela Carter: Biography by Edmund Gordon

2. Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis

3. After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus

4. Everything Is Combustible by Richard Lloyd

5. Lonely Boy by Steve Jones

6. Somebody With A Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill

7. Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rudiger Safranski

8. Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook

9. Vinyl, album, cover, art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue by Aubrey Powell

10. Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel

11. So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by Roger Steffans

12. Conversation With Edwidge Danticat by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (editor)

13. Acker by Douglas A. Martin

14. Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

15. I Am The Wolf: Lyrics and Writings by Mark Lanegan

16. Farewell To The Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick

17. The New Analog by Damon Krukowski

18. Being Elvis: A Lonely Life by Ray Connolly

19. Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

20. MUTE: A Visual Document by Terry Burrows

FICTION

4321 by Paul Auster

The Future Won’t Be Long by Jarett Kobek

The Answers by Catherine Lacey

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid