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Fiction
1. Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders (Penguin Random House Audio)
2. The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck (HarperCollins)
3. A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles (Penguin Random House Audio)
4. Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
5. Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
6. The Underground Railroad (Oprah’s Book Club)
by Colson Whitehead (Penguin Random House Audio)
7. Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult (Penguin Random House Audio)
8. Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid (Penguin Random House Audio)
9. The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware (Simon & Schuster Audio)
10. The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas (HarperCollins)
Extended List
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Simon & Schuster Audio)
- American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman (Penguin Random House Audio)
- The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (HarperCollins)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Hachette Audio)
Nonfiction
1. Hillbilly Elegy
by J. D. Vance (HarperCollins)
2. The Book of Joy
by Douglas Carlton Abrams, Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu (Penguin Random House Audio)
3. Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow (Penguin Random House Audio)
4. Evicted
by Matthew Desmond (Penguin Random House Audio)
5. The Little Book of Hygge
by Meik Wiking (HarperCollins)
6. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson (HarperCollins)
7. The Stranger in the Woods
by Michael Finkel (Penguin Random House Audio)
8. Nevertheless
by Alec Baldwin (HarperCollins)
9. You Are a Badass at Making Money
by Jen Sincero (Penguin Random House Audio)
10. Feminist Fight Club
by Jessica Bennett (HarperCollins)
Extended List
- When Breath Becomes Air by Abraham Verghese and Paul Kalanithi (Penguin Random House Audio)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Penguin Random House Audio)
- Hourglass by Dani Shapiro (Penguin Random House Audio)
- Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott (Penguin Random House Audio
The May 2017 audiobook bestseller list is based on sales through more than 300 independent bookstore locations during the month of April 2017.
You know, I was disappointed in the new Anne Lamott book. Repetitive. And her voice has finally become grating to me. I personally have bottomed out on her work.