Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2016 Books

National Book Award: Fiction 2016

16 November 2016

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

National Book Award: Fiction 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 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.