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2016 Books

Time: Sarah Begley: Top 20 Books of 2016

23 December 2016

Sarah Begley: Top 20 Books of 2016, as published by Time Magazine

Fiction

  1. The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead
  2. Another Brooklyn
    Jacqueline Woodson
  3. Commonwealth
    Ann Patchett
  4. Homegoing
    Yaa Gyasi
  5. All the Birds in the Sky
    Charlie Jane Anders
  6. Imagine Me Gone
    Adam Haslett
  7. Swing Time
    Zadie Smith
  8. The Trespasser
    Tana French
  9. My Name Is Lucy Barton
    Elizabeth Strout
  10. Here I Am
    Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction

  1. March
    Book Three
    John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
  2. Hillbilly Elegy
    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    J.D. Vance
  3. You’ll Grow Out of It
    Jessi Klein
  4. Known and Strange Things
    Essays
    Teju Cole
  5. Hidden Figures
    The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    Margot Lee Shetterly
  6. Shirley Jackson
    A Rather Haunted Life
    Ruth Franklin
  7. Lab Girl
    Hope Jahren
  8. Kill ‘Em and Leave
    Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
    James McBride
  9. The Constitution Today
    Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
    Akhil Reed Amar
  10. Girls & Sex
    Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
    Peggy Orenstein

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