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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The Ultimate Ambition In The Arts Of Erudition: A Compendium Of Knowledge From The Classical Islamic World by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna 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.
Cora escapes a Georgia plantation through a literal underground railway and crosses states embodying different racial terrors. A slave catcher follows as each refuge proves conditional.
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession With A Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for history lovers, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
After disturbing dreams, Yeong-hye stops eating meat, a private decision her husband and family treat as an intolerable rebellion. Three linked perspectives trace the coercion, desire, and estrangement that follow as she seeks a radically different relationship with her body.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2016 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The White Donkey: Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, comics & graphic novels, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Widow: A Novel by Fiona Barton appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar 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.
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Year Of The Runaways: A Novel by Sunjeev Sahota appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Yid by Paul Goldberg appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, tales from around the world, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, staff picks, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
They May Not Mean To, But They Do: A Novel by Cathleen Schine appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Things From The Flood by Simon Stålenhag appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
This Census-Taker by China Miéville appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Thomas Jefferson Dreams Of Sally Hemings: A Novel by Stephen O'Connor appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Yuyi Morales appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, kids’ books, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple 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.
Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements by Bob Mehr appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for music lovers, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Umami by Laia Jufresa, translated by Sophie Hughes appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Urban Forests: A Natural History Of Trees And People In The American Cityscape by Jill Jonnes 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.
Utopia For Realists: The Case For A Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, And A 15-hour Workweek by Rutger Bregman, translated by Elizabeth Manton appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Version Control: A Novel by Dexter Palmer appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Vision Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, family matters, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans. Translated by David McKay was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2016 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Ways To Disappear by Idra Novey appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, tales from around the world, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
What Belongs To You: A Novel by Garth Greenwell appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around identity & culture, let’s talk about sex, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 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.
When The Sea Turned To Silver by Grace Lin appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, identity & culture, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Where Am I Now?: True Stories Of Girlhood And Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson 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.
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman 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.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History Of Class In America by Nancy Isenberg 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.
Why We Came To The City by Kristopher Jansma 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.
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, historical fiction, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Yashim Cooks Istanbul by Jason Goodwin appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, mysteries & thrillers, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, family matters, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
You'll Grow Out Of It by Jessi Klein appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Zero K by Don DeLillo appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
