Top 10 NYPL Best Books for Adults 2017

评语：A candid, sardonic, moving memoir about a complicated relationship told in a mix of poems, prose, and essays.

评语：A menacing work of contemporary fantasy. Apollo Kagwa, who suffers from bizarre dreams, is shocked when his wife commits an act of astounding violence before disappearing.

评语：A spare and reflective graphic memoir about one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam to America and what is passed down from that experience.

评语：A story of a contemporary marriage set in Nigeria, told from the perspective of both the husband and wife, and revolving around a series of secrets they keep form one another.

评语：A sweeping family saga and historical fiction that tells the story of on Korean family who moves to Japan in the early 1900s.

评语：Part historical fiction, part ghost story, three characters stuck in an ambiguous limbo after their deaths, narrate the story of Abraham Lincoln’s visits to the graveyard following the tragic loss of his eleven-year-old son Willie.

评语：Two young people fall in love as their city falls into civil unrest and their relationship takes on the velocity of their surroundings. Political fiction meets love story with a beautiful touch of magical realism.

评语：A free-form novel, the first in a seasonally themed series, that centers around two characters, Elisabeth and the neighbor from her childhood. Leisurely-paced, reflective, psychological character-driven fiction at it's most artful.

评语：Filled with B-horror movie and pulp monster iconography, the diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes records her investigation into the murder of her upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor.