Books, Books, Books: Best of 2016

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler

Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)

Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope

Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray

Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez

Ghetto by Mitchell Duneier

My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Mary Hartnett (As told to); Wendy W. Williams (As told to)

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

Patient H. M. by Luke Dittrich

The Sun and the Moon and the Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen

The Mathews Men by William Geroux

City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence

Treyf by Elissa Altman

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Black Flags by Joby Warrick

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

The Vegetarian by Han Kang; Deborah Smith (Translator)

The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Delicious Foods by James Hannaham