The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodVox by Christina DalcherThe Grace Year by Kim LiggettThe Stepford Wives by Ira LevinWhen She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Patriarchal Dystopias
125 books — 108 voters
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersThe Animators by Kayla Rae WhitakerPachinko by Min Jin LeeSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
Anticipated / Best 2017 Literary Fiction
176 books — 123 voters

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik BackmanThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood1984 by George OrwellAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
2017: What the Over-35s Are Reading
2,707 books — 203 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Power by Naomi AldermanGather the Daughters by Jennie MelamedThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperThe Scarlet Harvest by Kate Ashbrook
Feminist Science Fiction Dystopias
48 books — 52 voters

The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasA Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. MaasEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanA Conjuring of Light by V.E. SchwabCaraval by Stephanie Garber
Best Books of 2017
1,734 books — 3,084 voters
The Girls by Emma ClineThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodCult Girls by Natalie GrandThe Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie OakesThe Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Cults and Communes in Fiction
359 books — 157 voters

Provocative by Lisa Renee JonesShameless by Lisa Renee JonesSilence Fallen by Patricia BriggsAge of Swords by Michael J. SullivanKaizen Sanctuary by Sean  Kennedy
Goodreads Choice Awards 2017
880 books — 1,009 voters

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasGlass Houses by Louise PennyMagpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
2017 Librarian Recommended Books
109 books — 195 voters