Year-End Lists

Entertainment Weekly: The 20 Best Books of 2016

1. The Nix
   Nathan Hill
2. When Breath Becomes Air
   Paul Kalanithi
3. Homegoing
   Yaa Gyasi
4. LaRose
   Louise Erdrich
5. All the Single Ladies

   Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
   Rebecca Traister
6. The Vegetarian
   Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith
7. The Girls
   Emma Cline
8. The Sun Is Also a Star
   Nicola Yoon
9. Lab Girl
   Hope Jahren
10. Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City
    Matthew Desmond
11. The Mothers
    Brit Bennett
12. The Sport of Kings
    C.E. Morgan
13. Shirley Jackson

    A Rather Haunted Life
    Ruth Franklin
14. The Gene

    An Intimate History
    Siddhartha Mukherjee
15. Barkskins
    Annie Proulx
16. Dark Money

    The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
    Jane Mayer
17. Modern Lovers
    Emma Straub
18. Sweetbitter
    Stephanie Danler
19. Today Will Be Different
    Maria Semple
20. Here Comes the Sun
    Nicole Dennis-Benn