Year-End Lists

The New York Times Book Review: 10 Best Books of 2016

Fiction

• The Association of Small Bombs
  Karan Mahajan
• The North Water
  Ian McGuire
• The Underground Railroad
  Colson Whitehead
• The Vegetarian
  Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith
• War and Turpentine
  Stefan Hertmans. Translated by David McKay

Nonfiction

• At the Existentialist Café

  Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
  Sarah Bakewell
• Dark Money

  The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
  Jane Mayer
• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City
  Matthew Desmond
• In the Darkroom
  Susan Faludi
• The Return

  Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
  Hisham Matar