Year-End Lists
A browsable archive of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
2020
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2010s
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2019
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2016 Books
Sarah Begley: Top 20 Books of 2016
23 December 2016
Sarah Begley
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Top 20 Books of 2016
, as published by
Time Magazine
Fiction
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
The Trespasser
Tana French
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer
Nonfiction
March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
You’ll Grow Out of It
Jessi Klein
Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju Cole
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
James McBride
The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
Akhil Reed Amar
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein