The Best Fiction Books of 2016 (A Year-End List Aggregation)
“What are the best Fiction books of 2016?” We aggregated 63 year-end lists and ranked the 626 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!
There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear the most. The top book this year wasn’t even close, appearing on more than half the best fiction lists and on 14 more lists than the number two book. The top 35 books, all of which appeared on 6 or more best fiction lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase. The remaining 591 books, as well as the top book lists are at the bottom of the page.
Be sure to check out our other Best Book of the year lists:
- The Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
- The Best Cookbooks of 2016
- The Best Art & Photography Books of 2016
- The Best Graphic Novels & Comics of 2016
- The Best Poetry Books of 2016
- The Best Biography & Memoir Books of 2016
- The Best Science & Nature Books of 2016
- The Best History Books of 2016
- The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2016
And if you want to see how they compare to last year, take a look at the 2015 lists as well!
Happy Scrolling!
The Top Fiction Books of 2016
35 .) Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Lists It Appears On:
- Brian Fanelli
- Good Books Guide
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Paste
- Ripr
Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year’s Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends . . . Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who’s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might’ve been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident . . . Bath’s mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then there’s Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there’s Charice Bond—a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer’s office—as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station.
34 .) Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed Books
- Herald Net
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- The Globe and Mail
- The Huffington Post
Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known.
33 .) The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien
Lists It Appears On:
- CBA
- Chicago Tribune
- NY Times
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- The Globe and Mail
- Washington Post
“One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony of village life. Before long, the beautiful black-haired Fidelma McBride falls under his spell and, defying the shackles of wedlock and convention, turns to him to cure her of her deepest pains.
Then, one morning, the illusion is abruptly shattered. While en route to pay tribute at Yeats’s grave, Dr. Vlad is arrested and revealed to be a notorious war criminal and mass murderer. The Cloonoila community is devastated by this revelation, and no one more than Fidelma, who is made to pay for her deviance and desire. In disgrace and utterly alone, she embarks on a journey that will bring both profound hardship and, ultimately, the prospect of redemption.”
32 .) Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
Lists It Appears On:
- Hudson Booksellers
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- The What List
- MPR News
- Shelf Awareness
- Book Chase
“A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He’s got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called ”the Hard Four.” On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn’t right — with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.
A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he’s hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won’t reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw’s case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor’s salvation. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all — though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface. “
31 .) Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Lists It Appears On:
- NY Times
- The Guardian
- Time
- Washington Post
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- The Denver Post
- Amazon
“In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.”
How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years―a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.
Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home―and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear.”
30 .) Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Lists It Appears On:
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- Readings
- Star Tribune
- The Guardian
- Good Books Guide
“Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her mother travel to the searing, arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultant–their very last chance–in the hope that he might cure her unpredictable limb paralysis.
But Dr. Gomez has strange methods that seem to have little to do with physical medicine, and as the treatment progresses, Sofia’s mother’s illness becomes increasingly baffling. Sofia’s role as detective–tracking her mother’s symptoms in an attempt to find the secret motivation for her pain–deepens as she discovers her own desires in this transient desert community.”
29 .) Mischling by Affinity Konar
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- The What List
- MPR News
- Largehearted Boy
- Flavorwire
“t’s 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood.
As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele’s Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain.
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28 .) Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
Lists It Appears On:
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- Seattle Times
- Star Tribune
- The Huffington Post
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Englewood Review
This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It’s the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass―a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams’s characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He’s standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he’s in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
27 .) Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer
Lists It Appears On:
- Publishers Weekly
- The Guardian
- Washington Post
- Largehearted Boy
- Electric Lit
- Paste
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
The poet and the painter battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw the world into flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into those most-sought-after tennis balls. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and f**k, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the course of history. In a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas More’s Utopia and thinks that it’s a manual instead of a parody. And in today’s New York City, a man searches for answers to impossible questions, for a book that is both an archive and an oracle.
26 .) The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Goodreads
- Washington Post
- Bookriot
- Paste
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Bustle
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs’ joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems.
25 .) The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
Lists It Appears On:
- Redbook
- Amazon
- Buzzfeed Books
- Entropy
- The Globe and Mail
- Bookriot
- Flavorwire
THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD is an outrageously funny tale about a wealthy Chinese-American family that “loses it all, then takes a healing, uproarious road trip across the United States” (Entertainment Weekly). Their spectacular fall from riches to rags brings the Wangs together in a way money never could. It’s an epic family saga and an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America.
24 .) Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed Books
- Entropy
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Bookriot
- Flavorwire
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Amazon
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman―fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves―must confront long-hidden scars. From a much-heralded new writer, Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant, passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise.
23 .) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed Books
- Kirkus
- Seattle Times
- The What List
- Time
- The Huffington Post
- Shelf Awareness
- San Francisco Chronicle
“When Margaret’s fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings — the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec — struggle along with their mother to care for Michael’s increasingly troubled and precarious existence.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this searing, gut-wrenching, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another, and the legacy of a father’s pain in the life of a family. “
22 .) News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Lists It Appears On:
- Kirkus
- Seattle Times
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- The Globe and Mail
- Dallas Voice
- Book Chase
- The Denver Post
- Amazon
“It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.
In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.
Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.”
21 .) Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Lists It Appears On:
- Good Books Guide
- NY Times
- Ripr
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Star Tribune
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- Washington Post
“Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She’s still in the marital home—a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse—but John’s not there. Instead, she’s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy’s womb.
Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.”
20 .) Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Glamour
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Redbook
- The Denver Post
- The Globe and Mail
- Washington Post
Eleanor knows she’s a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won’t swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother’s company. It’s also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office-but not Eleanor-that he’s on vacation. Just when it seems like things can’t go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.
19 .) Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Bustle
- Kirkus
- Largehearted Boy
- NY Times
- Redbook
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Washington Post
“Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.
However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades.”
18 .) The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Lists It Appears On:
- Bookriot
- Boston Globe
- Electric Lit
- Entropy
- Good Books Guide
- Kirkus
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- The Undefeated
- Vox
A “wild opera of a novel,”* The Queen of the Night tells the mesmerizing story of Lilliet Berne, an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept into the glamour and terror of Second Empire France. She became a sensation of the Paris Opera, with every accolade but an original role—her chance at immortality. When one is offered to her, she finds the libretto is based on her deepest secret, something only four people have ever known. But who betrayed her? With “epic sweep, gorgeous language, and haunting details,”** Alexander Chee shares Lilliet’s cunning transformation from circus rider to courtesan to legendary soprano, retracing the path that led to the role that could secure her reputation—or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.
17 .) Zero K by Don DeLillo
Lists It Appears On:
- Boston Globe
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- The Huffington Post
- The What List
- Washington Post
“The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.
Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body.”
16 .) A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
Lists It Appears On:
- Chicago Tribune
- Hudson Booksellers
- Kirkus
- Paste
- Philly
- Readings
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Shelf Awareness
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Washington Post
“In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.”
15 .) The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
Lists It Appears On:
- Bookriot
- Buzzfeed Books
- CBA
- Electric Lit
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Redbook
- The Huffington Post
- The Undefeated
- Washington Post
When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb—one of the many “small” bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world—detonates in the Delhi marketplace, instantly claiming the lives of the Khurana boys, to the devastation of their parents. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. After a brief stint at university in America, Mansoor returns to Delhi, where his life becomes entangled with the mysterious and charismatic Ayub, a fearless young activist whose own allegiances and beliefs are more malleable than Mansoor could imagine. Woven among the story of the Khuranas and the Ahmeds is the gripping tale of Shockie, a Kashmiri bomb maker who has forsaken his own life for the independence of his homeland.
14 .) The Nix by Nathan Hill
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Bustle
- Electric Lit
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- NY Times
- The Huffington Post
- The What List
- Twin Cities
- Washington Post
“From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help. “
13 .) What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed Books
- Chicago Review of Books
- Electric Lit
- Entropy
- Good Books Guide
- Largehearted Boy
- MPR News
- Philly
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Washington Post
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want.
12 .) The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Bookriot
- Boomerang Blog
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed Books
- CBA
- Electric Lit
- Flavorwire
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- Readings
- The Undefeated
It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.
11 .) Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Boston Globe
- Herald Net
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Seattle Times
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Tampa Bay Times
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- Washington Post
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.
10 .) Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Buzzfeed Books
- CBA
- Flavorwire
- NY Times
- Paste
- Ripr
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Tampa Bay Times
- The Globe and Mail
- Twin Cities
- Washington Post
“Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination.
From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.”
9 .) The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed Books
- Electric Lit
- Entropy
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- Redbook
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Shelf Awareness
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Huffington Post
- The Spinoff
“Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.”
8 .) LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Book Chase
- Bookriot
- Boston Globe
- CBA
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Publishers Weekly
- Readings
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Star Tribune
- Tampa Bay Times
- Twin Cities
- Washington Post
“North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence—but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he’s hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor’s five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux’s five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux’s wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty’s mother, Nola. Horrified at what he’s done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition—the sweat lodge—for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. “Our son will be your son now,” they tell them.”
7 .) The Girls by Emma Cline
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- CBA
- Electric Lit
- Entropy
- Flavorwire
- Goodreads
- Image
- Paste
- Publishers Weekly
- Readings
- Redbook
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- The Huffington Post
- The Spinoff
- Vox
- Washington Post
“Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence.
Emma Cline’s remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The Girls is a brilliant work of fiction.”
6 .) My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Lists It Appears On:
- Boston Globe
- Englewood Review
- Goodreads
- Herald Net
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Paste
- Readings
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Star Tribune
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- The Spinoff
- Time
- Verso
- Washington Post
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.
5 .) Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Bookriot
- Buzzfeed Books
- Entropy
- Good Books Guide
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Philly
- Redbook
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Seattle Times
- The Huffington Post
- The Undefeated
- The What List
- Time
- Vox
- Vox
- Washington Post
“Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant—a part of a future that belonged to them.
But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion.”
4 .) Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Lists It Appears On:
- Boomerang Blog
- CBA
- Englewood Review
- Entropy
- Flavorwire
- Goodreads
- Hudson Booksellers
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Philly
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Seattle Times
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Star Tribune
- The Denver Post
- The Spinoff
- The Well Read Redhead
- The What List
- Time
“One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.”
3 .) Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Buzzfeed Books
- CBA
- Electric Lit
- Entropy
- Flavorwire
- Image
- Kirkus
- NY Times
- Paste
- Redbook
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Seattle Times
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- The Huffington Post
- The Undefeated
- Time
- Verily Mag
- Vox
“Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.
Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live.
But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey—the same twists, the same shakes—and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time.”
2 .) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Bookriot
- Bustle
- Buzzfeed Books
- CBA
- Chicago Review of Books
- Electric Lit
- Englewood Review
- Entropy
- Flavorwire
- Good Books Guide
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Paste
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle 2
- Shelf Awareness
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Star Tribune
- The Denver Post
- The Globe and Mail
- Time
- Washington Post
Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
1 .) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Lists It Appears On:
- Amazon
- Book Chase
- Bookriot
- Boston Globe
- Brian Fanelli
- Buzzfeed Books
- CBA
- Chicago Review of Books
- Electric Lit
- Englewood Review
- Entropy
- Good Books Guide
- Herald Net
- Hudson Booksellers
- Image
- Kirkus
- MPR News
- NY Times
- Paste
- Philly
- Publishers Weekly
- Redbook
- Ripr
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Seattle Times
- Shelf Awareness
- St. Lousi Post Dispatch
- Star Tribune
- Tampa Bay Times
- The Denver Post
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- The Huffington Post
- Time
- Twin Cities
- Verily Mag
- Verso
- Vox
“Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.”
The Additional 591 Best Books of 2016
| # | Book | Author | List |
| Books That Appear on 5 Lists Each | |||
| 36 | All That Man Is | David Szalay | NY Times |
| Star Tribune | |||
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| The Guardian | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 37 | Everyone Brave is Forgiven | Chris Cleave | Boomerang Blog |
| Hudson Booksellers | |||
| The Well Read Redhead | |||
| Paste | |||
| Modern Mrs. Darcy | |||
| 38 | Hag-Seed | Margaret Atwood | The Guardian |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| Book Chase | |||
| Paste | |||
| Image | |||
| 39 | Private Citizens | Tony Tulathimutte | Buzzfeed Books |
| Entropy | |||
| Kirkus | |||
| The Huffington Post | |||
| Electric Lit | |||
| 40 | Problems | Jade Sharma | Entropy |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| The Huffington Post | |||
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| Bustle | |||
| 41 | The Last Painting of Sara de Vos | Dominic Smith | Kirkus |
| Readings | |||
| The What List | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 42 | The North Water | Ian McGuire | NY Times |
| Readings | |||
| Star Tribune | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| Chicago Tribune | |||
| 43 | The Portable Veblen | Elizabeth McKenzie | St. Lousi Post Dispatch |
| Kirkus | |||
| The What List | |||
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 44 | The Trespasser | Tana French | Time |
| Bookriot | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| The Denver Post | |||
| Vox | |||
| 45 | The Wonder | Emma Donoghue | Kirkus |
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| Washington Post | |||
| Flavorwire | |||
| The Denver Post | |||
| 46 | Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist | Sunil Yapa | Bustle |
| Herald Net | |||
| Bookriot | |||
| Entropy | |||
| Washington Post | |||
| Books That Appear on 4 Lists Each | |||
| 47 | A GAMBLER’S ANATOMY | Jonathan Lethem | NY Times |
| Paste | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| Vox | |||
| 48 | Before The Fall | Noah Hawley | NY Times |
| St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |||
| The Well Read Redhead | |||
| Paste | |||
| 49 | Grief is the Thing with Feathers | Max Porter | NY Times |
| MPR News | |||
| Verso | |||
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| 50 | Heroes of the Frontier | Dave Eggers | Herald Net |
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| Paste | |||
| The What List | |||
| 51 | High Dive | Jonathan Lee | Kirkus |
| Washington Post | |||
| Electric Lit | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 52 | Lily and the Octopus | Steven Rowley | Goodreads |
| Washington Post | |||
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| Verily Mag | |||
| 53 | Modern Lovers | Emma Straub | Kirkus |
| Washington Post | |||
| Flavorwire | |||
| Redbook | |||
| 54 | Mr. Splitfoot | Samantha Hunt | Paste |
| Kirkus | |||
| The What List | |||
| MPR News | |||
| 55 | Sweet Lamb of Heaven | Lydia Millet | Star Tribune |
| Washington Post | |||
| Kirkus | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 56 | Sweetbitter | Stephanie Danler | Buzzfeed Books |
| Washington Post | |||
| MPR News | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 57 | The Fortunes | Peter Ho Davies | NY Times |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 58 | The Mirror Thief | Martin Seay | NY Times |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Chicago Review of Books | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 59 | The Red Car | Marcy Dermansky | Buzzfeed Books |
| The Huffington Post | |||
| Flavorwire | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 60 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty | The Bookbag 2 |
| The Guardian | |||
| The Spinoff | |||
| Ripr | |||
| Books That Appear on 3 Lists Each | |||
| 61 | Alice & Oliver | Charles Bock | The Globe and Mail |
| The Well Read Redhead | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 62 | All The Birds In The Sky | Charlie Jane Anders | Hudson Booksellers |
| Kirkus | |||
| Time | |||
| 63 | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien | NY Times |
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 64 | Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice (The Austen Project, #4) | Curtis Sittenfeld | Glamour |
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| Goodreads | |||
| 65 | Exposure | Helen Dunmore | Kirkus |
| The Guardian | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 66 | Faithful | Alice Hoffman | St. Lousi Post Dispatch |
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| Redbook | |||
| 67 | Grace | Natashia Deon | Entropy |
| Kirkus | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 68 | Innocents and Others | Dana Spiotta | Kirkus |
| Electric Lit | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 69 | Margaret The First | Danielle Dutton | Entropy |
| Electric Lit | |||
| Vox | |||
| 70 | Mercury | Margot Livesey | Kirkus |
| Seattle Times | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 71 | Miss Jane | Brad Watson | Washington Post |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 72 | Nicotine | Nell Zink | Electric Lit |
| The Denver Post | |||
| Vox | |||
| 73 | Reputations | Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Translated by Anne McLean | Kirkus |
| NY Times | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 74 | Seeing Red | Lina Meruane | Entropy |
| Verso | |||
| Paste | |||
| 75 | Serious Sweet | A.L. Kennedy | Kirkus |
| The Guardian | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 76 | Tender | Belinda McKeon | Kirkus |
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| Electric Lit | |||
| 77 | The Gardens of Consolation | Parisa Reza | Entropy |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 78 | The Gloaming | Melanie Finn | Entropy |
| NY Times | |||
| Electric Lit | |||
| 79 | The Golden Age | Joan London | Kirkus |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Flavorwire | |||
| 80 | The Gustav Sonata | Rose Tremain | Kirkus |
| The Guardian | |||
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 81 | The Jealous Kind | James Lee Burke | Dallas Voice |
| Book Chase | |||
| Ripr | |||
| 82 | The Lesser Bohemians | Eimear McBride | The Guardian |
| Verso | |||
| Paste | |||
| 83 | The Muse | Jessie Burton | Good Books Guide |
| Glamour | |||
| The Denver Post | |||
| 84 | The Past | Tessa Hadley | Washington Post |
| The Huffington Post | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | |||
| 85 | The Regional Office Is Under Attack! | Manuel Gonzales | Buzzfeed Books |
| MPR News | |||
| Paste | |||
| 86 | The Sport of Kings | C.E. Morgan | Kirkus |
| NY Times | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | |||
| 87 | The Story of a Brief Marriage | Anuk Arudpragasam | Entropy |
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| Boston Globe | |||
| 88 | The Throwback Special | Chris Bachelder | Kirkus |
| Seattle Times | |||
| Vox | |||
| 89 | The Unseen World | Liz Moore | Publishers Weekly |
| MPR News | |||
| Vox | |||
| 90 | They May Not Mean To, But They Do | Cathleen Schine | Good Books Guide |
| Herald Net | |||
| MPR News | |||
| 91 | Thus Bad Begins | Javier Marías. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa | The Guardian |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| Boston Globe | |||
| 92 | War & Turpentine | Stefan Hertmans. Translated by David McKay | Good Books Guide |
| NY Times | |||
| The Economist | |||
| 93 | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours | Helen Oyeyemi | Buzzfeed Books |
| Goodreads | |||
| Washington Post | |||
| 94 | Wintering | Peter Geye | Good Books Guide |
| MPR News | |||
| Twin Cities | |||
| Books That Appear on 2 Lists Each | |||
| 95 | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl | Mona Awad | The Globe and Mail |
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| 96 | A Collapse of Horses | Brian Evenson | Chicago Review of Books |
| Entropy | |||
| 97 | A Doubter’s Almanac: A Novel | Ethan Canin | Amazon |
| Paste | |||
| 98 | A Great Reckoning | Louise Penny | Kirkus |
| St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |||
| 99 | A Tree or a Person or a Wall | Matt Bell | Chicago Review of Books |
| Entropy | |||
| 100 | All the Ugly and Wonderful Things | Bryn Greenwood | Goodreads |
| St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |||
| 101 | Among Strange Victims | Daniel Saldaña París | Entropy |
| Paste | |||
| 102 | Baby Girl | Bette Lee Crosby | Conversations Mag |
| Huffington Post | |||
| 103 | Blackass | A. Igoni Barrett | Entropy |
| Electric Lit | |||
| 104 | Carousel Court | Joe McGinniss Jr. | Kirkus |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 105 | Daredevils | Shawn Vestal | Seattle Times |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 106 | DARK MATTER | BLAKE CROUCH | Boomerang Blog |
| The What List | |||
| 107 | Days Without End | Sebastian Barry | The Guardian |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 108 | Double Teenage | Joni Murphy | The Globe and Mail |
| Largehearted Boy | |||
| 109 | Eleven Hours | Pamela Erens | Entropy |
| Kirkus | |||
| 110 | Fields Where They Lay | Timothy Hallinan | Kirkus |
| Book Chase | |||
| 111 | Forty Rooms | Olga Grushin | Kirkus |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 112 | Girls on Fire | Robin Wasserman | Buzzfeed Books |
| Entropy | |||
| 113 | Golden Hill | Francis Spufford | The Guardian |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 114 | Good Morning, Midnight | Lily Brooks-Dalton | Chicago Review of Books |
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 115 | Heat & Light | Jennifer Haigh | Washington Post |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 116 | Holding | Graham Norton | The Bookbag |
| Image | |||
| 117 | Human Acts | Han Kang | Good Books Guide |
| Verso | |||
| 118 | Hystopia | David Means | Kirkus |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 119 | I LET YOU GO | Clare Mackintosh | Kirkus |
| Verily Mag | |||
| 120 | I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Iain Reid | Entropy |
| The Globe and Mail | |||
| 121 | INFOMOCRACY | Malka Older | Kirkus |
| Bookriot | |||
| 122 | Jerusalem | Alan Moore | Kirkus |
| Washington Post | |||
| 123 | Leave Me | Gayle Forman | Caroline County Public Library |
| The Bookbag | |||
| 124 | Look | Solmaz Sharif | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| NY Times | |||
| 125 | Losing It | Emma Rathbone | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| Redbook | |||
| 126 | Mothering Sunday | Graham Swift | Star Tribune |
| Paste | |||
| 127 | Mount! | Jilly Cooper | Glamour |
| The Spinoff | |||
| 128 | Multiple Choice | Alejandro Zambra | The What List |
| Electric Lit | |||
| 129 | My Struggle: Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Kirkus |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 130 | Of This New World | Allegra Hyde | Entropy |
| Chicago Review of Books | |||
| 131 | Over the Plain Houses | Julia Franks | Chicago Review of Books |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 132 | Patricide | D. Foy | Entropy |
| Electric Lit | |||
| 133 | Razor Girl | Carl Hiaasen | Kirkus |
| Ripr | |||
| 134 | Shelter in Place | Alexander Maksik | Entropy |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 135 | Small Great Things | Jodi Picoult | Goodreads |
| The Well Read Redhead | |||
| 136 | Some Possible Solutions | Helen Phillips | Buzzfeed Books |
| Chicago Review of Books | |||
| 137 | Some Rain Must Fall | Karl Ove Knausgaard | The Guardian |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 138 | The Ballad of Black Tom | Victor LaValle | Passionate Foodie |
| Electric Lit | |||
| 139 | The Book of Harlan | Bernice L. McFadden | Conversations Mag |
| Washington Post | |||
| 140 | The Dollhouse | Fiona Davis | Conversations Mag |
| Verily Mag | |||
| 141 | The Good Lieutenant | Whitney Terrell | Washington Post |
| Boston Globe | |||
| 142 | The Good People | Hannah Kent | Readings |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 143 | The Jungle Around Us | Anne Raeff | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| Dallas Voice | |||
| 144 | The Kindness of Enemies | Leila Aboulela | Shelf Awareness |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 145 | The Last Days of Night | Graham Moore | Washington Post |
| Philly | |||
| 146 | The Noise of Time | Julian Barnes | The Guardian |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 147 | The Seed Collectors | Scarlett Thomas | Kirkus |
| The Huffington Post | |||
| 148 | The Summer Before the War | Helen Simonson | Washington Post |
| Philly | |||
| 149 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Guardian |
| The Spinoff | |||
| 150 | The Terranauts | TC Boyle | Twin Cities |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 151 | The Veins of the Ocean | Patricia Engel | Entropy |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| 152 | The Woman in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware | Herald Net |
| The Denver Post | |||
| 153 | The Year of the Runaways | Sunjeev Sahota | Washington Post |
| Boston Globe | |||
| 154 | The Yid | Paul Goldberg | Washington Post |
| Paste | |||
| 155 | Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings | Stephen O’Connor | Seattle Times |
| Washington Post | |||
| 156 | To the Bright Edge of the World | Eowyn Ivey | The What List |
| Washington Post | |||
| 157 | Transit | Rachel Cusk | The Guardian |
| Good Books Guide | |||
| 158 | Valiant Gentlemen | Sabina Murray | NY Times |
| Washington Post | |||
| 159 | Version Control | Dexter Palmer | Buzzfeed Books |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | |||
| Appear On A Single List Each | |||
| 160 | 24/7 | J.A. Rock | Kirkus |
| 161 | 99 Stories of God | Joy Williams | Entropy |
| 162 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | Philly |
| 163 | A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse | Brannavan Gnanalingam | The Spinoff |
| 164 | A CERTAIN AGE | Beatriz Williams | Kirkus |
| 165 | A CHANGE OF HEART | Sonali Dev | Kirkus |
| 166 | A Country Road, A Tree | Jo Baker | The Guardian |
| 167 | A FINE BALANCE | Rohinton Mistry | The What List |
| 168 | A Friend of Mr. Lincoln | Stephen Harrigan | Book Chase |
| 169 | A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist | Dallas Voice | |
| 170 | A Land More Kind Than Home | Wiley Cash | Caroline County Public Library |
| 171 | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | Caroline County Public Library |
| 172 | A NIGHT WITHOUT STARS | Peter F. Hamilton | Kirkus |
| 173 | A PROMISE OF FIRE | Amanda Bouchet | Kirkus |
| 174 | A Quiet Life | Natasha Walter | Good Books Guide |
| 175 | A SCOT IN THE DARK | Sarah MacLean | Kirkus |
| 176 | A Sinful Calling | Kimberla Lawson Roby | Conversations Mag |
| 177 | A STUDY IN SCARLET WOMEN | Sherry Thomas | Kirkus |
| 178 | A Tangle of Gold [Colors of Madeleine] | Jaclyn Moriarty | The Horn Book |
| 179 | A Touch of Stardust | Kate Alcott | Caroline County Public Library |
| 180 | A Whisper of Southern Lights | Tim Lebbon | Passionate Foodie |
| 181 | Abahn Sabana David | Marguerite Duras | Entropy |
| 182 | Ace of Spiders | Stefan Mohamed | The Bookbag |
| 183 | After Atlas | Emma Newman | Paste |
| 184 | AFTER JAMES | MICHAEL HELM | The Globe and Mail |
| 185 | After The Crash | Michel Bussi | Caroline County Public Library |
| 186 | Age of Blight | Kristine Ong Muslim | Chicago Review of Books |
| 187 | All Day at the Movies | Fiona Kidman | The Spinoff |
| 188 | ALL THAT SANG | LYDIA PEROVIC | The Globe and Mail |
| 189 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | The Spinoff |
| 190 | American Housewife | Helen Ellis | The Spinoff |
| 191 | AMERICAN RHAPSODY | CLAUDIA ROTH PIERPONT | Verily Mag |
| 192 | An Unattractive Vampire | Jim McDoniel | Herald Net |
| 193 | An Unrestored Woman | Shobha Rao | Herald Net |
| 194 | ANATOMY OF A SOLDIER | Harry Parker | The What List |
| 195 | Anchor in the Storm | Sarah Sundin | Conversations Mag |
| 196 | As Brave As You | Jason Reynolds | The Horn Book |
| 197 | Autumn | Ali Smith | The Guardian |
| 198 | Back in the Saddle | Ruth Logan Herne | Conversations Mag |
| 199 | Beast | Paul Kingsnorth | The Guardian |
| 200 | Beasts & Children | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 201 | Beautiful Country | J.R | Conversations Mag |
| 202 | Because of Miss Bridgerton | Julia Quinn | Philly |
| 203 | Before the Wind | Jim Lynch | Herald Net |
| 204 | Before We Visit the Goddess | Chitra Divakaruni | Modern Mrs. Darcy |
| 205 | Behind Closed Doors | B.A. Paris | Redbook |
| 206 | Bev | Andrea Williams and Matty Rich | Conversations Mag |
| 207 | Black Deutschland | Darryl Pinckney | Entropy |
| 208 | BLACK WATER | Louise Doughty | NY Times |
| 209 | BLIND SIGHT | Carol O’Connell | Kirkus |
| 210 | Body 2.0 | Krista Hammerbacher Haapala | Redbook |
| 211 | Bones of Paradise | Jonis Agee | Twin Cities |
| 212 | BRIGHT, PRECIOUS DAYS | Jay McInerney | The What List |
| 213 | Brush of Wings | Karen Kingsbury | Conversations Mag |
| 214 | Bull Mountain | Brian Panowich | The Well Read Redhead |
| 215 | Burn Baby Burn | Meg Medina | The Horn Book |
| 216 | Calloway | Cori Quinn | Conversations Mag |
| 217 | CAT BORN TO THE PURPLE | C.L. Francisco | Huffington Post |
| 218 | Children of Italy | Christine Simolke | Conversations Mag |
| 219 | CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD | Alexander Weinstein | NY Times |
| 220 | Christodora | Tim Murphy | Washington Post |
| 221 | Cities I’ve Never Lived In | Sara Majka | Entropy |
| 222 | Close Your Eyes | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 223 | COINMAN | Pawan Mishra | Huffington Post |
| 224 | COLLECTED POEMS 1950-2012 | Adrienne Rich | NY Times |
| 225 | COLLECTING THE DEAD | Spencer Kope | Kirkus |
| 226 | CONSTANT GUESTS | Patricia Nedelea | Huffington Post |
| 227 | Cooked to Death: Tales of Crime and Cookery” edited by Michael Allan Mallory and Rhonda Guilliland | Twin Cities | |
| 228 | Cruel Beautiful World | Caroline Leavitt | Dallas Voice |
| 229 | Dahlia Cassandra | Nathaniel Kressen | Entropy |
| 230 | DARKROOM | Mary Maddox | Huffington Post |
| 231 | Dear Mr M | Herman Koch | The Spinoff |
| 232 | DEATH’S END | Cixin Liu, translated | Kirkus |
| 233 | Defiant Pose | Stewart Home | Entropy |
| 234 | deleted scenes for lovers | Tracey Slaughter | The Spinoff |
| 235 | Destiny Lingers | Rolonda Watts | Conversations Mag |
| 236 | Different Class | Joanne Harris | The Bookbag 2 |
| 237 | Do Your Om Thing | Rebecca Pacheco | The Well Read Redhead |
| 238 | Dodgers | Bill Beverly | Shelf Awareness |
| 239 | Dog Years | Melissa Yancy | Entropy |
| 240 | DON’T I KNOW YOU? | MARNI JACKSON | The Globe and Mail |
| 241 | DON’T LET MY BABY DO RODEO | Boris Fishman | NY Times |
| 242 | Double Negative | Ivan Vladislavić | Verso |
| 243 | Doubt | C.e. Tobisman | Redbook |
| 244 | DRACHEN | Brendan le Grange | Huffington Post |
| 245 | DRONE | Robert Roy Britt | Huffington Post |
| 246 | EAST OF MECCA | Sheila Flaherty | Huffington Post |
| 247 | Echoland | Per Petterson | Good Books Guide |
| 248 | EDGE THE BARE GARDEN | Rosanne Cheng | Huffington Post |
| 249 | Eileen | Ottessa Moshfegh | The Spinoff |
| 250 | Eliza Waite | Ashley E. Sweeney | Caroline County Public Library |
| 251 | Ema, the Captive | César Aira. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews | Boston Globe |
| 252 | Enchanted Islands | Allison Amend | Good Books Guide |
| 253 | END OF WATCH | Stephen King | NY Times |
| 254 | Every Anxious Wave | Mo Daviau | Hudson Booksellers |
| 255 | Every Kind of Wanting | Gina Frangello | Entropy |
| 256 | Every Woman’s Dream | Mary Monroe | Conversations Mag |
| 257 | Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) | Thalia Field | Entropy |
| 258 | FALL FROM GRACE | Tim Weaver | Kirkus |
| 259 | Falling | Julie Cohen | The Bookbag |
| 260 | Falter Kingdom | Michael J. Seidlinger | Entropy |
| 261 | FAST TRACK TO GLORY | Tomasz Chrusciel | Huffington Post |
| 262 | Father’s Day | Simon Van Booy | The Bookbag 2 |
| 263 | Fell | Jenn Ashworth | The Bookbag |
| 264 | Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine | Diane Williams | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 265 | FIRST KILL | Robert Roy Britt | Huffington Post |
| 266 | FIRST STAR I SEE TONIGHT | Susan Elizabeth Phillips | Kirkus |
| 267 | Fish in Exile | Vi Khi Nao | Entropy |
| 268 | Fixers | Michael M. Thomas | Washington Post |
| 269 | FOOL ME ONCE | Harlan Coben | Kirkus |
| 270 | For a Little While: New and Selected Stories | Rick Bass | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 271 | For Two Thousand Years | Mihail Sebastian | Good Books Guide |
| 272 | FORBIDDEN | Beverly Jenkins | Kirkus |
| 273 | Four Reincarnations: Poems | Max Ritvo | Shelf Awareness |
| 274 | Foxlowe | Eleanor Wasserberg | Good Books Guide |
| 275 | Fractured | Catherine McKenzie | Conversations Mag |
| 276 | Friend of Mr. Lincoln | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 277 | Full of Beans | Jennifer L. Holm | The Horn Book |
| 278 | Gaijin | Jordan Okumura | Entropy |
| 279 | GASLIGHT | STEVEN PRICE | The Globe and Mail |
| 280 | Gesell Dome | Guillermo Saccomanno; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger. | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 281 | Ghosts of the Tristan Basin | Brian McClellan | Passionate Foodie |
| 282 | Ginny Gall | Charlie Smith | Washington Post |
| 283 | Go Tell It On The Mountain | James Baldwin Penguin, 2001 [1953]) | Verso |
| 284 | GOD OF THE INTERNET | Lynn Lipinski | Huffington Post |
| 285 | Goodnight, Beautiful Women | Anna Noyes | The Huffington Post |
| 286 | Happy People Read and Drink Coffee | Agnes Martin-Lugand | Conversations Mag |
| 287 | Harmless Like You | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | The Bookbag |
| 288 | Harmony | Carolyn Parkhurst | The Bookbag 2 |
| 289 | Heartbreaker | Maryse Meijer | Chicago Review of Books |
| 290 | HEAVEN, EARTH OR HELL | Maeve Nolan | Huffington Post |
| 291 | HECTOR’S HEROIC DAY | Patrick Jones | Huffington Post |
| 292 | Hell’s Bounty | Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale | Passionate Foodie |
| 293 | Here Lies Memory | Doug Rice | Entropy |
| 294 | HERO IN THE HIGHLANDS | Suzanne Enoch | Kirkus |
| 295 | Hidden Bodies | Caroline Kepnes | Glamour |
| 296 | HIDDEN FIGURES | MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY | Verily Mag |
| 297 | Hindsight | Mindy Tarquini | Redbook |
| 298 | His Bloody Project | Graeme Macrae Burnet | The Guardian |
| 299 | House of Large Sizes | Ian Graham Leask | Twin Cities |
| 300 | HOUSE OF LORDS AND COMMONS | Ishion Hutchinson | NY Times |
| 301 | Hungry Heart | Jennifer Weiner | Flavorwire |
| 302 | I Hate the Internet | Jarett Kobek | Verso |
| 303 | I MUST BE LIVING TWICE: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2014.By Eileen Myles. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $29.99.) Charming and confounding poems from a provocative voice. | NY Times | |
| 304 | I Will Send Rain | Rae Meadows | Book Chase |
| 305 | I’ll See You in Paris | Michelle Gable | Conversations Mag |
| 306 | I’ll Tell You in Person | Chloe Caldwell | Flavorwire |
| 307 | IDLEWILD | Jude Sierra | Kirkus |
| 308 | If I Forget You | Thomas Christopher Greene | Conversations Mag |
| 309 | IMPALA | Andrew Diamond | Huffington Post |
| 310 | In the Café of Lost Youth | Patrick Modiano | Boston Globe |
| 311 | IN THE DARK | Chris Patchell | Huffington Post |
| 312 | In Twenty Years | Allison Winn Scotch | Conversations Mag |
| 313 | Infinite Ground | Martin MacInnes | The Guardian |
| 314 | Ink and Bone | Lisa Unger | The Bookbag |
| 315 | IZA’S BALLAD | Magda Szabo. Translated by George Szirtes | NY Times |
| 316 | Jazz Moon | Joe Okonkwo | Dallas Voice |
| 317 | Jonathan Unleashed | Meg Rosoff | Dallas Voice |
| 318 | Juana & Lucas written and illustrated | Juana Medina | The Horn Book |
| 319 | Judas | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 320 | Justice for Jessica | Alretha Thomas | Conversations Mag |
| 321 | Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation | Octavia E. Butler and Damian Duffy, illustrated | The Undefeated |
| 322 | KING OF AVERAGE | Gary Schwartz | Huffington Post |
| 323 | KINGFISHER | Patricia A. McKillip | Kirkus |
| 324 | Knockout | John Jodzio | Twin Cities |
| 325 | Ladivine | Marie NDiaye translated | Verso |
| 326 | LATE STORIES | Stephen Dixon | Kirkus |
| 327 | Leaving Lucy Pear | Anna Solomon | Entropy |
| 328 | Letters to Kevin | Stephen Dixon | Entropy |
| 329 | Lilac Girls | Martha Hall Kelly | Herald Net |
| 330 | LIVIA LONE | Barry Eisler | Kirkus |
| 331 | LONER | Teddy Wayne | Kirkus |
| 332 | Losing the Light | Andrea Dunlop | Redbook |
| 333 | Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | Seattle Times |
| 334 | Maestra | LS Hilton | Glamour |
| 335 | Magic | Danielle Steel | The Spinoff |
| 336 | Makoons [Birchbark House] written and illustrated | Louise Erdrich | The Horn Book |
| 337 | Man and Wife | Katie Chase | Entropy |
| 338 | Manitou Canyon | William Kent Krueger | Dallas Voice |
| 339 | MARCH: BOOK 3 | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell | Bookriot |
| 340 | MARRYING WINTERBORNE | Lisa Kleypas | Kirkus |
| 341 | MASTERS’ MYSTERIUM: LAS VEGAS | R.R. Reynolds | Huffington Post |
| 342 | Mattie’s Call | Stacy Campbell | Conversations Mag |
| 343 | MAX AND THE MARA | Jesse Arnold | Huffington Post |
| 344 | MAYS LANDING | J.C. Mercer | Huffington Post |
| 345 | Me Before You | Jojo Moyes | The Well Read Redhead |
| 346 | Memoirs of a Polar Bear | Yoko Tawada | Entropy |
| 347 | Men Can Cry Too | Kenny L | Conversations Mag |
| 348 | Miller’s Valley | Anna Quindlen | The Denver Post |
| 349 | MISSING, PRESUMED | Susie Steiner | Kirkus |
| 350 | MISTER MONKEY | Francine Prose | NY Times |
| 351 | Mister Monkey | Francine Prose | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 352 | MONSTERLAND | Michael Phillip Cash | Huffington Post |
| 353 | Monterey Bay | Lindsay Hatton | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 354 | Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was | Sjon and Victoria Cribb (translator) | The Bookbag 2 |
| 355 | Morning Star | Pierce Brown | Paste |
| 356 | Mortal Trash | Kim Addonizio | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 357 | MOXIE’S DECISION | Hank Quense | Huffington Post |
| 358 | Murder, She Tweets | Amy Beth Arkawy | Conversations Mag |
| 359 | Music and Freedom | Zoë Morrison | Readings |
| 360 | My Name is Leon | Kit de Waal | The Bookbag |
| 361 | MYSTERIOUS FRAGRANCE OF THE YELLOW MOUNTAINS | YASUKO THANH | The Globe and Mail |
| 362 | Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley | Danyl McLauchlan | The Spinoff |
| 363 | Neon Green | Margaret Wappler | Entropy |
| 364 | Night and Day | Iris Johansen | Conversations Mag |
| 365 | Night of the Animals | Bill Broun | Vox |
| 366 | Night School | Lee Child | The Spinoff |
| 367 | Night Sky With Exit Wounds | Ocean Vuong | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 368 | Nine Island | Jane Alison | Publishers Weekly |
| 369 | NORTE | Edmundo Paz Soldán, translated | Kirkus |
| 370 | NOT SO MUCH, SAID THE CAT | Michael Swanwick | Kirkus |
| 371 | Not Working | Lisa Owens | Glamour |
| 372 | Nothing on Earth | Conor O’Callaghan | The Guardian |
| 373 | Novi Sad | Jeff Jackson | Entropy |
| 374 | Oil and Marble | Stephanie Storey | Hudson Booksellers |
| 375 | On the Edge | Rafael Chirbes | Entropy |
| 376 | ONCE BROKEN | D.M. Hamblin | Huffington Post |
| 377 | One Hundred Twenty-One Days | Michèle Audin, trans. from the French by Christiana Hills | Publishers Weekly |
| 378 | ONLY THE HUNTED RUN | Neely Tucker | Kirkus |
| 379 | Original Cyn | Sylvia Dickey Smith | Conversations Mag |
| 380 | Our Young Man | Edmund White | Boston Globe |
| 381 | OUTRAGEOUS | Neal Katz | Huffington Post |
| 382 | PAPER CASTLES | Terri Lee | Huffington Post |
| 383 | Paper Girls | Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang | Chicago Tribune |
| 384 | Paris for One & Other Stories | Jojo Moyes | Dallas Voice |
| 385 | Peacekeeping | Mischa Berlinski | Washington Post |
| 386 | People Who Knew Me | Kim Hooper | Bustle |
| 387 | Perfume River | Robert Olen Butler | Washington Post |
| 388 | PHILOMENA | Mark Guiney | Huffington Post |
| 389 | Pieces of Hate | Tim Lebbon | Passionate Foodie |
| 390 | Poet of the Wrong Generation | Lonnie Ostrow | Conversations Mag |
| 391 | Potted Meat | Steven Dunn | Entropy |
| 392 | Precious and Grace | Alexander McCall Smith | Caroline County Public Library |
| 393 | Queen of the Night | Alexander Chee | Buzzfeed Books |
| 394 | RADIO GIRLS | SARAH-JANE STRATFORD | Verily Mag |
| 395 | RAVEN’S PEAK | Lincoln Cole | Huffington Post |
| 396 | Red Herring | Jonothan Cullinane | The Spinoff |
| 397 | Reel | Tobias Carroll | Entropy |
| 398 | REverybody’s Fool | Richard Russo | Hudson Booksellers |
| 399 | RICH AND POOR | JACOB WREN | The Globe and Mail |
| 400 | RISE THE DARK | Michael Koryta | Kirkus |
| 401 | RUN RAGGED | Kari Aguila | Huffington Post |
| 402 | Run the World | Becky Wade | The Well Read Redhead |
| 403 | Salammbô | Gustave Flaubert, trans. A. J. Krailsheimer | Verso |
| 404 | Saving Abby | Steena Holmes | Conversations Mag |
| 405 | SCARY OLD SEX | Arlene Heyman | Kirkus |
| 406 | Second House from the Corner | Sadeqa Johnson | Conversations Mag |
| 407 | Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets | Svetlana Alexievich. Translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich | Boston Globe |
| 408 | Secret Lives and Private Eyes | Heather Weidner | Conversations Mag |
| 409 | Septimania | Jonathan Levi | Chicago Review of Books |
| 410 | SERVANT OF DARKNESS | Simon J Cambridge | Huffington Post |
| 411 | SERVANT OF FIRE | Simon J Cambridge | Huffington Post |
| 412 | SERVANT OF LIES | Simon J Cambridge | Huffington Post |
| 413 | Shelter | Jun Yung | MPR News |
| 414 | SHRIVERS | Jeb Kinnison | Huffington Post |
| 415 | Siracusa | Delia Ephron | Publishers Weekly |
| 416 | Sisi | Allison Pataki | Conversations Mag |
| 417 | Sister Surrogate | Lachelle Weaver | Conversations Mag |
| 418 | Skylarking | Kate Mildenhall | Readings |
| 419 | SLEEPING GIANTS | Sylvain Neuvel | Bookriot |
| 420 | Smoke | Dan Vyleta | Shelf Awareness |
| 421 | So Much for that Winter | Dorthe Nors | Entropy |
| 422 | Solar Bones | Mike McCormack | The Guardian |
| 423 | Song of Silence | Cynthia Ruchti | Conversations Mag |
| 424 | Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty | Ramona Ausubel | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 425 | Square Wave | Mark de Silva | Entropy |
| 426 | STILL HERE | Lara Vapnyar | NY Times |
| 427 | STILL MINE | AMY STUART | The Globe and Mail |
| 428 | STILL THE SAME MAN | Jon Bilbao | Kirkus |
| 429 | STRANGER | DAVID BERGEN | The Globe and Mail |
| 430 | Suite For Barbara Loden | Nathalie Léger | Entropy |
| 431 | Summer of the Cicadas | Cole Lavalais | The Undefeated |
| 432 | SUPER EXTRA GRANDE | Yoss, translated | Kirkus |
| 433 | SUPERNOVA | C.A. Higgins | Kirkus |
| 434 | Surveys | Natasha Stagg | Entropy |
| 435 | SWITCH | Geoff Visgilio | Huffington Post |
| 436 | Tailored for Trouble | Mimi Jean Pamfiloff | Philly |
| 437 | THE ADVENTURIST | J. Bradford Hipps | Kirkus |
| 438 | The Amateurs | Sara Shepard | Redbook |
| 439 | The Angel of History | Rabih Alameddine | Shelf Awareness |
| 440 | The Annie Year | Stephanie Wilbur Ash | Twin Cities |
| 441 | The Atomic Weight of Love | Elizabeth J. Church | Bustle |
| 442 | The Babysitter At Rest | Jen George | Entropy |
| 443 | The Beast | J.R. Ward | Philly |
| 444 | The Bed Moved | Rebecca Schiff | The Huffington Post |
| 445 | THE BED MOVED: STORIES | Rebecca Schiff | Kirkus |
| 446 | THE BEST KIND OF PEOPLE | ZOE WHITTALL | The Globe and Mail |
| 447 | The Best Man | Richard Peck | The Horn Book |
| 448 | THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH: STORIES | Ayelet Tsabari | Kirkus |
| 449 | The Birds | Tarjei Vesaas | Entropy |
| 450 | THE BLACK WIDOW | Daniel Silva | Kirkus |
| 451 | The Blackbird Singularity | Matt Wilven | The Bookbag 2 |
| 452 | THE BLIND MULE | Russell S. Babcock | Huffington Post |
| 453 | The Book of Endless Sleepovers | Henry Hoke | Entropy |
| 454 | The Border of Paradise | Esmé Weijun Wang | Electric Lit |
| 455 | THE BREAK | KATHERENA VERMETTE | The Globe and Mail |
| 456 | The Brilliant & Forever | Kevin MacNeil | The Guardian |
| 457 | The Burning Light | Bradley Beaulieu and Rob Ziegler | Passionate Foodie |
| 458 | The Cartel 6 | Ashley & JaQuavis | Conversations Mag |
| 459 | The Cavendon Luck | Barbara Taylor Bradford | Conversations Mag |
| 460 | The Chimes | Anna Smaill | Shelf Awareness |
| 461 | The City of Mirrors | Hudson Booksellers | |
| 462 | The Comet Seekers | Helen Sedgwick | Glamour |
| 463 | The Cosmopolitans | Sarah Schulman | Publishers Weekly |
| 464 | THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR | SHARI LAPENA | The Globe and Mail |
| 465 | The Course of Love: A Novel | Alain de Bottom | Modern Mrs. Darcy |
| 466 | The Crime Writer | Jill Dawson | Good Books Guide |
| 467 | The Dark Circle | Linda Grant | The Bookbag |
| 468 | The Dark Flood Rises | Margaret Drabble | Good Books Guide |
| 469 | The Dark Lady’s Mask | Mary Sharratt | Twin Cities |
| 470 | THE DARKEST SIDE OF SATURN | Tony Taylor | Huffington Post |
| 471 | THE DIARIES | Chuck Driskell | Huffington Post |
| 472 | The Dog Catcher | Lloyd Johnson | Conversations Mag |
| 473 | The Dream Life of Astronauts | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 474 | THE DRY | JANE HARPER | Boomerang Blog |
| 475 | The Essex Serpent | Sarah Perry | Good Books Guide |
| 476 | The Evenings | Gerard Reve | Good Books Guide |
| 477 | THE FIRE THIS TIME: A NEW GENERATION SPEAKS ABOUT RACE | Jesmyn Ward | Bookriot |
| 478 | THE FIREMAN | JOE HILL | Boomerang Blog |
| 479 | The Fisherman | John Langan | Electric Lit |
| 480 | THE FORTUNATE BROTHER | DONNA MORRISSEY | The Globe and Mail |
| 481 | The Fox Was Ever the Hunter | Herta Müller. Translated from the German by Philip Boehm | Boston Globe |
| 482 | The German Girl | Armando Lucas Correa | Dallas Voice |
| 483 | THE GILDED YEARS | KARIN TANABE | Verily Mag |
| 484 | The Girl in the Red Coat | Kate Hamer | Amazon |
| 485 | The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home | Catherynne M. Valente | Vox |
| 486 | THE GIRL WHO SLEPT WITH GOD | Val Brelinski | The What List |
| 487 | The Guineveres | Sarah Domet | Bustle |
| 488 | The Hand She Played | Sheryl Mallory-Johnson | Conversations Mag |
| 489 | The Heavenly Table | Donald Ray Pollock | My Dayton Daily |
| 490 | The Heavens May Fall | Allen Eskens | Twin Cities |
| 491 | THE HIDDEN KEYS | ANDRÉ ALEXIS | The Globe and Mail |
| 492 | THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL | YANN MARTEL | The Globe and Mail |
| 493 | THE HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF NIGHT | Catherine Banner | Kirkus |
| 494 | The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog written | Adam Gidwitz, illustrated | The Horn Book |
| 495 | THE INSEPARABLES | Stuart Nadler | Kirkus |
| 496 | The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko | Scott Stambach | Good Books Guide |
| 497 | THE KINGDOM OF THE SUN AND THE MOON | Lowell H. Press | Huffington Post |
| 498 | THE LAST MORTAL BOND | Brian Staveley | Kirkus |
| 499 | The Last One | Alexandra Oliva | Seattle Times |
| 500 | The Last Shift: Poems | Philip Levine | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 501 | THE LAST SUNSET | Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall | Huffington Post |
| 502 | The Last Wolf & Herman | László Krasznahorkai | Entropy |
| 503 | The Lie Tree | Frances Hardinge | The Horn Book |
| 504 | THE LIFE-WRITER | David Constantine | NY Times |
| 505 | The Lightkeepers | Abby Geni | Chicago Review of Books |
| 506 | THE LONG, HOT SUMMER | KATHLEEN MACMAHON | The Globe and Mail |
| 507 | The Loss of All Lost Things | Amina Gautier | The Undefeated |
| 508 | The Lost Time Accidents | John Wray | Buzzfeed Books |
| 509 | THE LOVED ONES | Sonya Chung | Kirkus |
| 510 | The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 | Lionel Shriver. | The Economist |
| 511 | The Mare | Philly | |
| 512 | THE MAYNWARINGS | Digger Cartwright | Huffington Post |
| 513 | THE MONSTER REALM | Nara Duffie | Huffington Post |
| 514 | The Mortifications | Derek Palacio | NY Times |
| 515 | The Mortifications | Derek Palacio | Bustle |
| 516 | The Mother | Yvvette Edwards | The Undefeated |
| 517 | The Name on the Door is Not Mine: Stories new and selected | CK Stead | The Spinoff |
| 518 | The Natural Way of Things | Charlotte Wood | The Bookbag 2 |
| 519 | THE OBELISK GATE | N.K. Jemisin | Kirkus |
| 520 | THE ODD FELLOWS SOCIETY | C. G. Barrett | Huffington Post |
| 521 | The One-in-a-Million Boy | Monica Wood | Modern Mrs. Darcy |
| 522 | The Orphan Keeper | Camron Wright | Conversations Mag |
| 523 | The Other Sister | Dianne Dixon | Conversations Mag |
| 524 | The Outside Lands | Hannah Kohler | Good Books Guide |
| 525 | THE PARCEL | ANOSH IRANI | The Globe and Mail |
| 526 | THE PARTY WALL | CATHERINE LEROUX, TRANSLATED | The Globe and Mail |
| 527 | The Passenger | Lisa Lutz | My Dayton Daily |
| 528 | The Passion of Dolssa | Julie Berry | The Horn Book |
| 529 | The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories | Joan Aiken | Washington Post |
| 530 | The Pier Falls and Other Stories | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 531 | The Power | Naomi Alderman | The Guardian |
| 532 | The Practice Wife | Marissa Monteilh | Conversations Mag |
| 533 | THE PRELAPSARIANS | John Gaiserich | Huffington Post |
| 534 | The Reactive | Masande Ntshanga | Entropy |
| 535 | The Regualrs | Georgia Clark | Redbook |
| 536 | The Restaurant Critic’s Wife | Elizabeth LaBan | Conversations Mag |
| 537 | The Revolutionaries Try Again | Mauro Javier Cardenas | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 538 | The Schooldays of Jesus | JM Coetzee | The Guardian |
| 539 | THE SECOND LIFE OF NICK MASON | Steve Hamilton | Kirkus |
| 540 | THE SECRET RECIPE FOR SECOND CHANCES | J.D. BARRETT | Boomerang Blog |
| 541 | The Show House | Dan Lopez | Chicago Review of Books |
| 542 | The Sleeping World | Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes | Entropy |
| 543 | The Sportscaster’s Daughter | Cindi Michael | Redbook |
| 544 | The Stargazer’s Sister | Carrie Brown | Washington Post |
| 545 | The Steel Kiss | Jeffery Deaver | Conversations Mag |
| 546 | The Story of Hong Gildong (translated from the Korean | Minsoo Kang) | Entropy |
| 547 | The Strays | Emily Bitto | The Bookbag 2 |
| 548 | The Summer That Melted Everything | Tiffany McDaniel | My Dayton Daily |
| 549 | The Sun Is Also a Star | Nicola Yoon | The Horn Book |
| 550 | THE SUNLIGHT PILGRIMS | Jenni Fagan | The What List |
| 551 | The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness | Maddie Dawson | Conversations Mag |
| 552 | The Translation of Love | Lynne Kutsukake | Bustle |
| 553 | The Travelers | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 554 | The Trees | Ali Shaw | The Bookbag |
| 555 | THE TROPHY OF CHAMPIONS | Cameron Stelzer | Huffington Post |
| 556 | The Trouble with Goats and Sheep | Joanna Cannon | Caroline County Public Library |
| 557 | THE TWO OF US | KATHY PAGE | The Globe and Mail |
| 558 | The Two-Family House | Lynda Cohen Loigman | Conversations Mag |
| 559 | The Ugly | Alexander Boldizar | Entropy |
| 560 | The Unfortunate Englishman | Philly | |
| 561 | The Visiting Privilege | Joy Williams | The Guardian |
| 562 | THE WATCHER IN THE WALL | Owen Laukkanen | Kirkus |
| 563 | THE WIDOWER’S WIFE | Cate Holahan | Kirkus |
| 564 | The Winter Fortress | St. Lousi Post Dispatch | |
| 565 | The Wolf Road | Beth Lewis | MPR News |
| 566 | The Wrong Side of Goodbye | Michael Connelly | Tampa Bay Times |
| 567 | THESE ARE THE NAMES | Tommy Wieringa, translated | Kirkus |
| 568 | Thin Air | Michelle Paver | The Bookbag 2 |
| 569 | This Census-Taker | China Miéville | The Guardian |
| 570 | This Must Be The Place | Maggie O’Farrell | Glamour |
| 571 | This Too Shall Pass | Milena Busquets | Glamour |
| 572 | This Was Not the Plan | Cristina Alger | Conversations Mag |
| 573 | Three Daughters of Eve | Elif Shafak | Good Books Guide |
| 574 | Throw Away Girls | Jennifer Vaughn | Conversations Mag |
| 575 | To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party | Skila Brown | The Horn Book |
| 576 | Too Like the Lightning | Ada Palmer | Chicago Review of Books |
| 577 | Truly Madly Guilty | Liane Moriarty | Goodreads |
| 578 | Trust No One | Paul Cleave | The Spinoff |
| 579 | TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980 | Molly Prentiss | Kirkus |
| 580 | Under the Harrow | Flynn Berry | My Dayton Daily |
| 581 | Under the Udala Trees | Chinelo Okparanta | The Undefeated |
| 582 | UNDERMAJORDOMO MINOR | Patrick Dewitt | The What List |
| 583 | United States of Japan Book | Peter Tieryas | Entropy |
| 584 | US VS WELKNER | Sonny Hayes | Huffington Post |
| 585 | Veins of the Ocean | Patricia Engel | Electric Lit |
| 586 | VILE MEANS | Steve Dimodica | Huffington Post |
| 587 | Virtuous Deception 2 | Leiann B | Conversations Mag |
| 588 | Vital Signs | Tessa McWatt | Verso |
| 589 | Waking Lions | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | The Bookbag 2 |
| 590 | WALKING THE DOG | Elizabeth Swados | Kirkus |
| 591 | WASTE | ANDREW F. SULLIVAN | The Globe and Mail |
| 592 | WAYWARD HEROES | Halldór Laxness, translated | Kirkus |
| 593 | We Are Unprepared | Meg Little Reilly | Conversations Mag |
| 594 | We Eat Our Own | Kea Wilson | Entropy |
| 595 | We Love You, Charlie Freeman | Kaitlyn Greenidge | Buzzfeed Books |
| 596 | WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED: & OTHER STORIES | Clare Beams | Kirkus |
| 597 | We Want Everything | Nanni Balestrini | Chicago Tribune |
| 598 | WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER | AMY JONES | The Globe and Mail |
| 599 | WEATHERING | Lucy Wood | NY Times |
| 600 | What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty | The Well Read Redhead |
| 601 | What Lies Between Us | Nayomi Munaweera | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 602 | What was Mine | Helen Klein Ross | Herald Net |
| 603 | Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? | Kathleen Collins | Publishers Weekly |
| 604 | WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR | DR. PAUL KALANITHI | Verily Mag |
| 605 | WHEN IT RAINED AT HEMBRY CASTLE | Meredith Allard | Huffington Post |
| 606 | When the Sea Turned to Silver written and illustrated | Grace Lin | The Horn Book |
| 607 | Where We Fall | Rochelle B | Conversations Mag |
| 608 | Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone | Sequoia Nagamatsu | Entropy |
| 609 | Whiskey, Etc. | Sherrie Flick | Entropy |
| 610 | White Nights in Split Town City | Annie DeWitt | Largehearted Boy |
| 611 | WILD AT WHISKEY CREEK | Julie Anne Long | Kirkus |
| 612 | Wild Things | Jaimee Wriston Colbert | Brian Fanelli |
| 613 | Wilde Lake | Laura Lippman | Washington Post |
| 614 | WILLEM DE KOONING’S PAINTBRUSH | KERRY LEE POWELL | The Globe and Mail |
| 615 | Winter | Christopher Nicholson | Washington Post |
| 616 | Women’s Voices | Rebekah S | Conversations Mag |
| 617 | Wonderland | Sam Ligon | Entropy |
| 618 | Work Like Any Other | Virginia Reeves | Book Chase |
| 619 | Write to Die | Charles Rosenberg | Conversations Mag |
| 620 | YIDDISH FOR PIRATES | GARY BARWIN | The Globe and Mail |
| 621 | YOU CAN’T TOUCH MY HAIR | Phoebe Robinson | Bookriot |
| 622 | You May See a Stranger | Paula Whyman | Chicago Review of Books |
| 623 | You Should Pity Us Instead | Amy Gustine | San Francisco Chronicle 2 |
| 624 | YOU WILL KNOW ME | Megan Abbott | Kirkus |
| 625 | You’re The One I Want | Shane Allison | Conversations Mag |
| 626 | Zama | Antonio Di Benedetto, trans. from the Spanish by Esther Allen | Publishers Weekly |
The 63 Best Fiction Book Lists Used
| Source | Article |
| Amazon | Best literature and fiction of 2016 |
| Book Chase | Book Chase 2016 Fiction Top 10 |
| Bookriot | HERE YOU HAVE IT! BOOK RIOT’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2016. |
| Boomerang Blog | The Best Books of 2016 |
| Boston Globe | Best books of 2016 |
| Brian Fanelli | 2016 Recap/Best Of |
| Bustle | 13 Of The Best Debut Novels Of 2016 |
| Buzzfeed Books | The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2016 |
| Caroline County Public Library | Our Favorite Books of 2016 |
| CBA | Best Books of 2016 |
| Chicago Review of Books | The Best Fiction Books of 2016 |
| Chicago Tribune | Best books of 2016 |
| Conversations Mag | Conversations Top 50 Fiction Books of 2016 |
| Dallas Voice | Holiday Gift Guide: Reading list! |
| Electric Lit | Electric Literature’s 25 Best Novels of 2016 |
| Englewood Review | Englewood Honor Books – Best Books of 2016 |
| Entropy | BEST OF 2016: BEST FICTION BOOKS |
| Flavorwire | The Year in Books: The 15 Best Books of 2016 |
| Glamour | The 10 best novels of 2016 |
| Good Books Guide | 100+ Literary Favourites of 2016 |
| Goodreads | BEST FICTION |
| Herald Net | Best books of 2016: Adult fiction and graphic novels |
| Hudson Booksellers | Best Books of 2016 |
| Huffington Post | The Best Self-Published Books of 2016 |
| Image | 5 Of The Best Books Of 2016 |
| Kirkus | BEST FICTION OF 2016 |
| Largehearted Boy | Favorite Novels of 2016 |
| Modern Mrs. Darcy | My favorite books of 2016 |
| MPR News | Best books of 2016 to give — and receive: Fiction favorites |
| My Dayton Daily | Favorite fiction titles from 2016 |
| NY Times | Fiction & Poetry |
| Passionate Foodie | My Favorite Fiction of 2016, From Novels to Anthologies |
| Paste | The Best Books of 2016: Novels |
| Philly | Best books of 2016: Our staff picks |
| Publishers Weekly | Best Fiction |
| Readings | The best fiction books of 2016 |
| Redbook | The 20 Best Books of 2016 |
| Ripr | Scott MacKay’s Favorite Books of 2016 |
| San Francisco Chronicle | Top 10 books of 2016 |
| San Francisco Chronicle 2 | Best of 2016: 100 recommended books |
| Seattle Times | The best books of 2016, from our critics |
| Shelf Awareness | Our 2016 Best Books of the Year |
| St. Lousi Post Dispatch | The Best Books of 2015 |
| Star Tribune | The 50 Best Books For Holiday Giving |
| Tampa Bay Times | Colette Bancroft’s 10 favorite books of 2016 |
| The Bookbag | Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2016 |
| The Bookbag 2 | Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2016 |
| The Denver Post | Best books of 2016: The fiction we loved |
| The Economist | Books of the Year 2016 |
| The Globe and Mail | Best Books of the Year |
| The Guardian | The best fiction of 2016 |
| The Horn Book | Horn Book Fanfare |
| The Huffington Post | The 18 Best Fiction Books Of 2016 |
| The Spinoff | The Spinoff Review of Books presents the 20 best fiction books of 2016 |
| The Undefeated | NEW BEGINNINGS: THE FRESHEST BOOKS OF 2016 |
| The Well Read Redhead | The Well-Read Redhead’s Best Books of 2016! |
| The What List | Top 20 Fiction Books of 2016 (so far) |
| Time | The Top 10 Novels |
| Twin Cities | For the book lovers on your list, 21 picks from this year’s best |
| Verily Mag | 10 GREAT BOOKS FROM 2016 THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED |
| Verso | Staff Picks: Books of the Year 2016—Chosen by Verso |
| Vox | The 13 best novels of 2016 |
| Washington Post | Notable Fiction Books in 2016 |
