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Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2016, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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13 Ways Of Looking At A Fat Girl: Fiction by Mona Awad appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, identity & culture, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table To Working The Line by Eric Ripert, with Veronica Chambers appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, biography & memoir, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Change Of Heart by Sonali Dev appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Child Of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Collapse Of Horses: A Collection Of Stories by Brian Evenson appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, the dark side, short stories, essays & poetry, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Gentleman In Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around tales from around the world, historical fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Great Reckoning: A Novel by Louise Penny appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Promise Of Fire by Amanda Bouchet appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Rage For Order: The Middle East In Turmoil, From Tahrir Square To ISIS by Robert F. Worth appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, tales from around the world, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, love & romance, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Addlands: A Novel by Tom Bullough appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, tales from around the world, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All That Man Is: A Novel by David Szalay appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Childhood friends Patricia and Laurence grow into a witch and a technological visionary on opposite sides of a worsening planetary crisis. Their renewed relationship becomes entangled in a conflict between magic and science over how, or whether, humanity should be saved.
All The Single Ladies: Unmarried Women And The Rise Of An Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Alligator Candy: A Memoir by David Kushner appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread To Classic Layer, The Stories And Recipes Behind More Than 125 Of Our Best-Loved Cakes by Anne Byrn appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, for history lovers, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Housewife by Helen Ellis appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, funny stuff, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, love & romance, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
And I Darken by Kiersten White appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, historical fiction, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, seriously great writing, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, with Laurie Woolever appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, staff picks, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Around The Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P. Henson, with Denene Millner appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
As Good As Gone: A Novel by Larry Watson appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2016 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Barkskins: A Novel by Annie Proulx appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Before The Fall by Noah Hawley appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beginner's Guide: Love And Other Chemical Reactions by Six de los Reyes appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, it’s all geek to me, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Behold The Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A reported history of the people, prisons, wars, and policy failures that enabled ISIS to emerge.
Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search For Racial Identity by Sil Lai Abrams appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Book Uncle And Me by Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Julianna Swaney appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Borderline by Mishell Baker appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood by Trevor Noah appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Boys Among Men: How The Prep-To-Pro Generation Redefined The NBA And Sparked A Basketball Revolution by Jonathan Abrams appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, for sports lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, historical fiction, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
By Gaslight: A Novel by Steven Price appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around the dark side, mysteries & thrillers, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Carry Me: A Novel by Peter Behrens appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, for history lovers, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Garcia-Moreno appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, the dark side, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune And Random Failure In Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, mysteries & thrillers, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures Of Urban Decay by Ben Katchor appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, comics & graphic novels, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Children Of The New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstein appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
