More than 50 California librarians voted on their choice for a top One City, One Book / Citywide read. The Top 5 selections were revealed at the Top 5×5 for Adults presentation at #CLA2017. The complete list is included below with the Top 5 shown in bold. Thank you to everyone who participated in both the conference session and the voting.
| A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention | Matt Richtel |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic | Sam Quinones |
| Emergence: Labeled Autistic | Temple Grandin |
| Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm | David Mas Masumoto |
| Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng |
| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Flygirl | Sherri L. Smith |
| Gabi, A Girl in Pieces | Isabel Quintero |
| Hamilton: The Revolution | Lin Manuel |
| Her Right Foot | Dave Eggers |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford |
| Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| Into the Beautiful North | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
| Lucky Boy | Shanthi Sekaran |
| March | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell |
| Marcus in the Real World | Francisco Stork |
| Monstress | Lysley Tenorio |
| News of the World | Paulette Jiles |
| The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music | Steve Lopez |
| Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| Sylvia & Aki | Winifred Conkling |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein |
| The Book of Joy | Dalai Lama |
| The Devil’s Highway: A True Story | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
| The Imitation of Christ | Kempis, Thomas |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Nguyen |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| What It Is Like To Go To War | Karl Marlantes |
| Wonder | R. J. Palacio |
| Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption In An American Prison | Shaka Senghor |
