The best books of 2017

From the New York Times, Goodreads, Brain Pickings and more. Browse the lists.

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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
Alexander Betts
Paul Collier
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The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
David Goodhart
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Grant
Ron Chernow
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
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Ali: A Life
Jonathan Eig
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff
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Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Erica Wagner
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Toscanini
Harvey Sachs
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Hilary Spurling
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The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
Naoki Higashida
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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona Hathaway
Scott Shapiro
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Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
Nicholas Shakespeare
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Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Ian Black
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Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900
Simon Schama
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Against the Grain
James Scott
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The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Walter Scheidel
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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Jonathan Haskel
Stian Westlake
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Astrophysics for the People in a Hurry
Neil de Grasse Tyson
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