This volume is not exactly memoir and not exactly criticism publisher Semiotext(e) calls it “an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing.” Light beach reading. This is for people who love essays that haul great truths out of deep vulnerability.
Abandon Me, Melissa Febosįebos’ second book of memoirs dissects some of her most intimate relationships: with her absent birth father, with the man who raised her, and with the woman she turbulently loved. But the arguments build on each other to offer revelations about love, desire, success, and everything else that matters. Manguso’s latest book is not an essay collection-it’s a series of aphorisms, like a modern Poor Richard’s Almanack or a serious Jack Handey. When you’re done, check out Electric Lit’s favorite short story collections and favorite novels of the year. Below are the essay collections, memoirs, and histories that made the biggest impressions on us in 2017. We polled Electric Lit staff and regular contributors on their favorite books of the year, and we’re bringing you the winners, starting with nonfiction. From this wealth of options, how is a person ever supposed to choose which ones to read? Well, we can’t tell you which books from 2017 you’ll like best, but we can tell you which ones we liked best.
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