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2016 Books

Harper’s Bazaar: The 13 Best Books of 2016

12 December 2016

Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer

Harper’s Bazaar: The 13 Best Books of 2016

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

  1. Here I Am
    Jonathan Safran Foer
  2. When Breath Becomes Air
    Paul Kalanithi
  3. The Girls
    Emma Cline
  4. Born To Run
    Bruce Springsteen
  5. In the Darkroom
    Susan Faludi
  6. Swing Time
    Zadie Smith
  7. The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead
  8. Sweetbitter
    Stephanie Danler
  9. In Other Words
    Jhumpa Lahiri
  10. Known and Strange Things
    Essays
    Teju Cole
  11. Homegoing
    Yaa Gyasi
  12. Eleanor and Hick
    The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
    Susan Quinn
  13. All That Man Is
    David Szalay

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