Year-End Lists

Jane Ciabattari: The 10 Best Books of 2016 as published by BBC Culture

[see also 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Innocents and Others
   Dana Spiotta
2. The Sport of Kings
   C.E. Morgan
3. Commonwealth
   Ann Patchett
4. Imagine Me Gone
   Adam Haslett
5. Known and Strange Things

   Essays
   Teju Cole
6. Underground Airlines
   Ben H. Winters
7. The Unseen World
   Liz Moore
8. Shirley Jackson

   A Rather Haunted Life
   Ruth Franklin
9. At the Existentialist Café

   Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
   Sarah Bakewell
10. Homegoing
    Yaa Gyasi