# The Washington Post's 10 best books of 2016

The ten books The Washington Post picked as the best of 2016, fiction and non-fiction.

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## Top 10

1. **Commonwealth — Ann Patchett** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
2. **Evicted — Matthew Desmond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
3. **The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
4. **News of the World — Paulette Jiles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
5. **The Return — Hisham Matar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
6. **Rogue Heroes — Ben Macintyre** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
7. **Secondhand Time — Svetlana Alexievich** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
8. **Swing Time — Zadie Smith** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
9. **The Trespasser — Tana French** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
10. **The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.

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