Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Albums of 2024
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2016 Books
Boston Globe: Kate Tuttle: 20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
02 January 2017
Kate Tuttle
:
20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
, as published by
The Boston Globe
[see also
2017
]
All the Single Ladies
Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister
At the Existentialist Café
Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Sarah Bakewell
Black Elk
The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson
Blood at the Root
A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips
Blood in the Water
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Imbeciles
The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Adam Cohen
Kill ‘Em and Leave
Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
James McBride
Mad Enchantment
Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King
Moscow Nights
The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
Nigel Cliff
On Trails
An Exploration
Robert Moor
One of These Things First
Steven Gaines
Pit Bull
The Battle over an American Icon
Bronwen Dickey
Shirley Jackson
A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
The Song Poet
A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Time Travel
A History
James Gleick
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
Writing to Save a Life
The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman
