Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2016

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• Stamped from the Beginning

  The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  Ibram X. Kendi

Finalists

• Strangers in Their Own Land

  Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Nothing Ever Dies

  Vietnam and the Memory of War
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Other Slavery

  The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
  Andrés Reséndez
• Blood in the Water

  The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
  Heather Ann Thompson

Longlist

• America's War for the Greater Middle East

  A Military History
  Andrew J. Bacevich
• The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
  Patricia Bell-Scott
• Imbeciles

  The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
  Adam Cohen
• Weapons of Math Destruction

  How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  Cathy O’Neil
• The Slave's Cause

  A History of Abolition
  Manisha Sinha

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2016, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• In the Darkroom
  Susan Faludi

Finalists

• At the Existentialist Café

  Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
  Sarah Bakewell
• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City
  Matthew Desmond
• The Black Presidency

  Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
  Michael Eric Dyson
• Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
  Beth Macy
• Hillbilly Elegy

  A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  J.D. Vance

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2016, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• The Sport of Kings
  C.E. Morgan

Finalists

• Imagine Me Gone
  Adam Haslett
• Carousel Court
  Joe McGinniss Jr.
• Barkskins
  Annie Proulx
• A Gentleman in Moscow
  Amor Towles
• The Underground Railroad
  Colson Whitehead

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2016

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Winner

• The Sellout
  Paul Beatty

Shortlist

• Hot Milk
  Deborah Levy
• His Bloody Project

  Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
  Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Eileen
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• All That Man Is
  David Szalay
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing
  Madeleine Thien

Longlist

• My Name Is Lucy Barton
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Schooldays of Jesus
  J.M. Coetzee
• Serious Sweet
  A.L. Kennedy
• The North Water
  Ian McGuire
• The Many
  Wyl Menmuir
• Hystopia
  David Means
• Work Like Any Other
  Virginia Reeves

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2016

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Winner

• The Glorious Heresies
  Lisa McInerney

Shortlist

• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara
• The Improbability of Love
  Hannah Rothschild
• The Portable Veblen
  Elizabeth Mckenzie
• Ruby
  Cynthia Bond
• The Green Road
  Anne Enright

Longlist

• After Before
  Jemma Wayne
• Rush Oh!
  Shirley Barrett
• My Name Is Lucy Barton
  Elizabeth Strout
• The House at the Edge of the World
  Julia Rochester
• Girl at War
  Sara Novic
• Pleasantville
  Attica Locke
• At Hawthorn Time
  Melissa Harrison
• The Anatomist's Dream
  Clio Gray
• Gorsky
  Vesna Goldsworthy
• The Book of Memory
  Petina Gappah
• Whispers Through a Megaphone
  Rachel Elliott
• A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
  Jackie Copleton
• The Secret Chord
  Geraldine Brooks
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
  Becky Chambers
• A God in Ruins
  Kate Atkinson