Year archive
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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Chronicle Of A Last Summer: A Novel Of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 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.
Consequence: A Memoir by Eric Fair 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.
Cook Korean! A Comic Book With Recipes by Robin Ha appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Crosstalk by Connie Willis appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, funny stuff, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dalí: Les Dîners De Gala by Salvador Dalí appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, for art lovers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, family matters, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dark Money by Jane Mayer 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.
Dark Money: The Hidden History Of The Billionaires Behind The Rise Of The Radical Right by Jane Mayer 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.
Darktown: A Novel by Thomas Mullen appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, book club ideas, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Death's End by Cixin Liu appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, tales from around the world, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Demon, Volume 1 by Jason Shiga appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Disappearance At Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, family matters, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Don't Call Me Grandma by Vaunda Nelson, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dorie's Cookies by Dorie Greenspan appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dust (Object Lessons) by Michael Marder, edited by Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped A First Lady by Susan Quinn appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, eye-opening reads, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years And After, 1939-1962 by Blanche Wiesen Cook appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Elephant Complex: Travels In Sri Lanka by John Gimlette appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, tales from around the world, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eligible: A Modern Retelling Of Pride And Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Every Anxious Wave by Mo Daviau appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, for music lovers, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Everybody's Fool: A Novel by Richard Russo appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Evicted by Matthew Desmond 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.
Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City by Matthew Desmond appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Exit, Pursued By A Bear by E.K. Johnston appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, family matters, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eyes On The Street: The Life Of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Faith Volume 1: Hollywood And Vine by Jody Houser, illustrated by Francis Portela and Marguerite Sauvage appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fear The Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh 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.
Fellside by M.R. Carey appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, the dark side, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A family story explains how a Canadian soldier's rescued bear inspired the character Winnie-the-Pooh.
Flavorwalla: Big Flavor. Bold Spices. A New Way To Cook The Foods You Love by Floyd Cardoz appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Float by Anne Carson appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, love & romance, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives And Dreams Brought To Life by Ashley Bryan appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Full Of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, historical fiction, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ghostland: An American History In Haunted Places by Colin Dickey appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for history lovers, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, family matters, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Girls On Fire: A Novel by Robin Wasserman appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers: A Novel by Max Porter appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, the dark side, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, fiction, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for art lovers, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Heat And Light: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh 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.
Here Comes The Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hero Of The Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape And The Making Of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard 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.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream And The Untold Story Of The Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 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.
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, funny stuff, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
