Year-End Lists

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2016
All Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry

100 Recommended Books of 2016 San Francisco Chronicle

Top 10 Books of 2016 San Francisco Chronicle

20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 Boston Globe: Kate Tuttle

Barkskins - Annie Proulx

15 Best Fiction Books of 2016 Boston Globe: John Freeman

52 Favorite Books of 2016 Dennis Cooper

Barkskins - Annie Proulx

10 Best Books of 2016 Publishers Weekly

10 Best Books of 2016 Library Journal

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Top 20 Books of 2016 Time: Sarah Begley

The Lonely City - Olivia Laing

16 Favorite Books of 2016 Maria Popova

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

10 Best Books of 2016 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Innocents and Others - Dana Spiotta

The 10 Best Books of 2016 BBC Culture: Jane Ciabattari

The Nix - Nathan Hill

The 20 Best Books of 2016 Entertainment Weekly

10 Best Books of 2016 New York Times

Innocents and Others - Dana Spiotta

Best Fiction of 2016 Powell's Books

Evicted - Matthew Desmond

Best Nonfiction of 2016 Powell's Books

Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer

The 13 Best Books of 2016 Harper’s Bazaar

The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter - Kia Corthron

2016 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction

Swing Time - Zadie Smith

Top Ten Books of 2016 Chicago Public Library

Swing Time - Zadie Smith

The 10 Best Books of 2016 Washington Post

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Fiction 2016 National Book Award

Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction 2016 National Book Award

Solar Bones - Mike McCormack

Best Fiction of 2016 Goldsmiths Prize

In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi

Nonfiction 2016 Kirkus Prize

The Sport of Kings - C.E. Morgan

Fiction 2016 Kirkus Prize

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