Year-End Lists

Sarah Begley: Top 20 Books of 2016, as published by Time Magazine

Fiction

1. The Underground Railroad
   Colson Whitehead
2. Another Brooklyn
   Jacqueline Woodson
3. Commonwealth
   Ann Patchett
4. Homegoing
   Yaa Gyasi
5. All the Birds in the Sky
   Charlie Jane Anders
6. Imagine Me Gone
   Adam Haslett
7. Swing Time
   Zadie Smith
8. The Trespasser
   Tana French
9. My Name Is Lucy Barton
   Elizabeth Strout
10. Here I Am
    Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction

1. March

   Book Three
   John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
2. Hillbilly Elegy

   A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
   J.D. Vance
3. You’ll Grow Out of It
   Jessi Klein
4. Known and Strange Things

   Essays
   Teju Cole
5. Hidden Figures

   The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
   Margot Lee Shetterly
6. Shirley Jackson

   A Rather Haunted Life
   Ruth Franklin
7. Lab Girl
   Hope Jahren
8. Kill ‘Em and Leave

   Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
   James McBride
9. The Constitution Today

   Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
   Akhil Reed Amar
10. Girls & Sex

    Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
    Peggy Orenstein