ICPL Top Staff Picks for 2017: Fiction

The Iowa City Public Library is pleased to present our favorite reads of 2017.

Employees were asked to submit the titles they read and loved this year with all nominations divided into eight categories: fiction, young adult, children's, mystery, science fiction/fantasy, autobiography/biography/memoir, non-fiction, and graphic novel. The only rule was that the book had to be released in 2017. Any book that was nominated by more than one staff member made our 2017 Best of the Best list.

We'll share our Best of the Best list on the last day of 2017. Until then, here are the Library's top fiction books for 2017. Keep checking back to see what made the cut in our other categories.

ICPL BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2017

• The Address by Fiona Davis
• Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
• Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
• The Good People by Hannah Kent
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• Close Enough to Touch by Colleen Oakley
• The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• Lincoln at the Bardo by George Saunders
• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
• The World to Come by Jim Shepard
• Golden Hill by Francis Spufford (published in Britain in 2016; released in US in May of 2017)
• Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
• Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
• Wait Till You See Me Dance by Deb Olin Unferth

What was your favorite fiction read of 2017?