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
Kate Tuttle: 20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
02 January 2017
Kate Tuttle
:
20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
, as published by
The Boston Globe
[see also
2017
]
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Sarah Bakewell
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
Joe Jackson
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Adam Cohen
Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
James McBride
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
Nigel Cliff
On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor
One of These Things First
Steven Gaines
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
Bronwen Dickey
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
Time Travel: A History
James Gleick
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman
