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The Nix - Nathan Hill

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

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Top Ten Books of 2016 Chicago Public Library

Evicted - Matthew Desmond

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

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Best Fiction of 2016 The Booker Prize

The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney

Best Fiction of 2016 Women's Prize

50 Best Books of 2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Top 10 Books of 2015 San Francisco Chronicle

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

15 Best Books of 2015 Harper’s Bazaar

15 Best Books of 2015 Maria Popova

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Top 10 Books of 2015 Los Angeles Times: David L. Ulin

11 Best Books of 2015 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly

10 Best Books of 2015 Washington Post

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

The 10 Best Books of 2015 Vogue

Gold Fame Citrus - Claire Vaye Watkins

The 10 Best Books of 2015 BBC Culture: Jane Ciabattari

20 Favorite Books of 2015 A.V. Club

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