Year-End Lists

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2016 Books

Entertainment Weekly: The 20 Best Books of 2016

20 December 2016

The Nix - Nathan Hill

Entertainment Weekly: The 20 Best Books of 2016

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  1. The Nix
    Nathan Hill
  2. When Breath Becomes Air
    Paul Kalanithi
  3. Homegoing
    Yaa Gyasi
  4. LaRose
    Louise Erdrich
  5. All the Single Ladies
    Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
    Rebecca Traister
  6. The Vegetarian
    Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith
  7. The Girls
    Emma Cline
  8. The Sun Is Also a Star
    Nicola Yoon
  9. Lab Girl
    Hope Jahren
  10. Evicted
    Poverty and Profit in the American City
    Matthew Desmond
  11. The Mothers
    Brit Bennett
  12. The Sport of Kings
    C.E. Morgan
  13. Shirley Jackson
    A Rather Haunted Life
    Ruth Franklin
  14. The Gene
    An Intimate History
    Siddhartha Mukherjee
  15. Barkskins
    Annie Proulx
  16. Dark Money
    The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
    Jane Mayer
  17. Modern Lovers
    Emma Straub
  18. Sweetbitter
    Stephanie Danler
  19. Today Will Be Different
    Maria Semple
  20. Here Comes the Sun
    Nicole Dennis-Benn

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