# The New York Times' 10 best books of 2016

The ten books picked by the New York Times Book Review as the best of 2016: five novels and five non-fiction titles.

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- Jun 19, 2019 · Simona Bianco
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## Top 10

1. **The Association of Small Bombs — Karan Mahajan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
2. **The North Water — Ian McGuire** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel aboard an Arctic whaler.
3. **The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Novel.
4. **The Vegetarian — Han Kang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Korean novel translated by Deborah Smith.
5. **War and Turpentine — Stefan Hertmans** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Belgian novel.
6. **At the Existentialist Café — Sarah Bakewell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on existentialism.
7. **Dark Money — Jane Mayer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on the funders of the American right.
8. **Evicted — Matthew Desmond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction on evictions in Milwaukee.
9. **In the Darkroom — Susan Faludi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A memoir about the author's father.
10. **The Return — Hisham Matar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A memoir of searching for his father in Libya.

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