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Library Journal: 10 Best Books of 2016

31 December 2016

Library Journal: 10 Best Books of 2016

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Also from Library Journal in 2016: Poetry
  1. Evicted
    Poverty and Profit in the American City
    Matthew Desmond
  2. In the Darkroom
    Susan Faludi
  3. The Nix
    Nathan Hill
  4. To the Bright Edge of the World
    A Novel
    Eowyn Ivey
  5. The Gene
    An Intimate History
    Siddhartha Mukherjee
  6. Blood at the Root
    A Racial Cleansing in America
    Patrick Phillips
  7. While the City Slept
    A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness
    Eli Sanders
  8. American Heiress
    The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
    Jeffrey Toobin
  9. All the Single Ladies
    Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
    Rebecca Traister
  10. The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead

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