The New York Times' 10 best books of 2016
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: The Association of Small Bombs — Karan Mahajan · The North Water — Ian McGuire · The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead. (Updated Jun 19, 2019.)
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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Top 10
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The Association of Small Bombs — Karan Mahajan
Novel.
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The North Water — Ian McGuire
Novel aboard an Arctic whaler.
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The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
Novel.
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4
The Vegetarian — Han Kang
Korean novel translated by Deborah Smith.
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5
War and Turpentine — Stefan Hertmans
Belgian novel.
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At the Existentialist Café — Sarah Bakewell
Non-fiction on existentialism.
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Dark Money — Jane Mayer
Non-fiction on the funders of the American right.
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Evicted — Matthew Desmond
Non-fiction on evictions in Milwaukee.
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9
In the Darkroom — Susan Faludi
A memoir about the author's father.
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10
The Return — Hisham Matar
A memoir of searching for his father in Libya.
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Comments (3)
La ferrovia sotterranea, libro potentissimo.
La vegetariana di Han Kang, molto prima del Nobel.
The North Water, crudo e bellissimo.