Seventeen (Tarkington novel)
 Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love in the person of a callow 17-year-old William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly before World War I. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914 and collected in a single volume in 1916 when it was the bestselling novel in the United States.