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And there you have it, folks! The best – and worst – books of 2017, neatly laid out and pontificated about as we’ve been doing for over a decade!
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Our Year in Reading 2017
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Open Letters closes its run with our regular year-end feature, as our editors and contributors look back at some of the books that made memorable impressions in 2017.
Read MoreOLM Favorites: Not A Boating Accident
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It wouldn’t be summer without a giant killer shark novel, so Steve Donoghue goes for a fun swim with the, er, mother of them all, Meg: Hell’s Aquarium.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fate of Rome
/To the long list of potential explanations for the fall of Rome, a gripping new book adds one more: climate change.
Read MoreBook Review: Giannozzo Manetti
/New in the I Tatti series: a tract in praise of Christianity (at the expense of Jews and ancient pagans) by a towering figure of the early Renaissance.
Read MoreBook Review: The First Domestication
/The ancient partnership between humans and canines is the subject of a thorough new volume of research
Read MoreBook Review: Spineless
/A fascinating new book looks at the unendingly odd jellyfish - and some of the unexpected roles it plays in the 21st century world.
Read MoreBook Review: The Friendly Orange Glow
/A tremendously involving narrative history of a forgotten chapter in Internet history
Read MoreBook Review: The Dawn Watch
/A fantastic new biography of Joseph Conrad follows him around in his travels and delves into the heart of his many books.
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op
/All of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.
Read MoreBook Review: Cartoon County
/In "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.
Read MoreBook Review: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
/The life stories of twelve incredible medieval manuscripts.
Read MoreBook Review: The Water Will Come
/A powerful new book covers in terrifying detail what happens to the modern world if Earth's ice caps dissolve.
Read MoreMan's Pest Friend
/Only one dog out of every five on Earth is somebody's pet; the rest are roamers in streets and city dumps. A fascinating new book looks at the lives of the canine majority.
Read MoreBook Review: The Second World Wars
/Veteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.
Read MoreBook Review: The Collector of Lives
/Giorgio Vasari, the author of a fundamental and beloved collection of the lives of Renaissance artists, here gets a lively and readable biography of his own.
Read MoreBook Review: Grant
/Bestselling biographer Ron Chernow tells the story of famous general and infamous president Ulysses S. Grant.
Read MoreBook Review: Trump is F*cking Crazy
/Former newscaster and sports commentator Keith Olbermann is a new star of YouTube for his strident opposition to President Trump; his new book provides the transcript.
Read MoreBook Review: Iran: A Modern History
/A sprawling new history of Iran from the 16th century to the present brings the multi-faceted story of Persia alive.
Read MoreBook Review: Istanbul
/Orhan Pamuk's bestselling love letter to Istanbul receives a gorgeous new illustrated edition.
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