Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2017

It's January 2018 and we will be getting together to talk about The Stars Are Legion very soon. If I had read this book in 2017, then it would have been in my top 5 sci-fi reads of the year. I didn't, so it wasn't.

Mine was:

The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

The Changeling by Victor LaValle

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yukanvitch

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders *very light on the speculative aspects

It got me thinking that there are probably a whole slew of books I missed out on. Here are some lists I found fascinating:

SyfyWire:

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jeminsin

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty *February Book Club selection

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

Jade City by Fonda Lee

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng

After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun

Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy Kress

Want by Cindy Pon

theguardian:

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Austral by Paul McAuley

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer *July Book Club selection

Djinn City by Saad Z Hossain

Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed

After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon *Thinking of this one for fall 2018

The Rift by Nina Allan

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng

Son of the Night by Mark Alder

The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear

The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jeminsin

The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway (my favorite book for 2018 so far)

list provided by Adam Roberts

I had to provide this list too, because it is really good and it's from Popular Mechanics!

New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer *July Book Club selection

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty  *February Book Club selection

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai *May Book Club selection
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

The Moon and the Other by John Kessel

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jeminsin
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

Do you have any personal favorites from 2017--I would love to hear it!