Best non-fiction books 2017 – the list so far
Some of us are recent converts to non-fiction, and we feel rather zealous about it. Contrary to what we thought, non-fiction shouldn't remind you of school. You shouldn't struggle through it or only have it on your shelf for showing off.
No, it should be un-putdownable, life changing. You should want to press these pages into your friend's hands, into stranger's hands, rearrange your local bookshops' shelves and start Twitter-stalking the authors.
All this madness awaits: first you have to read our pick of the best non-fiction of 2017.
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The parentheses in the title are the clue here – when people comment on your body, it doesn't always feel like it is yours alone. But Roxane Gay is speaking for herself in this blunt memoir – just as she did in her hit essay collection Bad Feminist.
Just as there is more to a person than their weight, there is more to this story than size. Gay was raped at the age of twelve in a horrifying encounter. This memoir is an intellectual, passionate and brutal self-examination. One that calls out society rather than naval-gazes.
Her twitter gives you a taste: '"Fat is not an insult. It is a descriptor. And when you interpret it as an insult, you reveal yourself and what you fear most."
