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Best books of 2017

29 December 2017

  • Book covers composite: The End We Start From, Attrib, The Gallows Pole, We That are Young, Know Your Place, Speak Gigantular

    Best books of 2017: indie publishers on their favourite books of the year

    India’s answer to Lear, a teen tale set amid the London riots and the first great book on grime. Experts pick 2017’s smartest, oddest and most overlooked reads

18 December 2017

  • Books, glorious books

    Favourite reads of 2017 - as chosen by scientists

    Guardian’s science bloggers choose the books from inside and outside science that delighted them most this year

17 December 2017

  • Cookbooks of the year

    The 20 best food books of 2017

  • New Orleans, Louisiana. 2012
© Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos A Second Line parade. A local African American tradition where brass bands — known as the first line — march in the streets and are joined by members of the public — called the second liners. The Second Line parades came about after the Civil War because insurance companies wouldn’t cover ex-slaves. So African Americans formed benevolent societies and clubs that helped mem- bers defray health costs. The dues included a band for funerals and a public parade every year. Over time, their popularity evolved, and now there are parades almost every Sun- day in New Orleans.

    Sean O’Hagan’s best photography books of 2017

15 December 2017

  • Illustration by Jackie Morris from the book The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane, Penguin Random House, by Jackie Morris, 2017

    Best books of 2017: the hits and misses of the publishers’ year

    The Man Booker winner, the diary of a junior doctor and the secret lives of cows ... Which books made their publishers proud – and which ones made them envious?

3 December 2017

  • princess margaret meets the beatles at the premiere of their film help in 1965

    Tim Adams’s best biographies of 2017

  • a painting of john franklins men dying on the ice by their stricken boat

    Robin McKie’s best science books of 2017

  • Detail from Portrait of a Moor by Jan Mostaert, 1520-30.

    Anthony Sattin’s best history books of 2017

  • The late Helen Dunmore’s collection Inside the Wave is full of ‘beautiful light’.

    Carol Rumens’s best poetry books of 2017

  • Alex Preston’s best fiction of 2017

  • Rowan Moore’s best architecture books of 2017

  • Rachel Cooke’s best graphic novels of 2017

  • Peter Conrad’s best art books of 2017

2 December 2017

1 December 2017

30 November 2017

  • High tides to come in New York 2140.

    The best science fiction and fantasy of 2017

    Adam Roberts finds floods in Manhattan, magic in Paris and a shortage of electricity across the world
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