Books of 2017 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Night: Memorial Edition Elie Wiesel The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement David Brooks Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson Life of Pi Yann Martel No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Joshua Hammer History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 Edward Gibbon Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War Mary Roach Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright