Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2016

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60 Works 62,694 Books 3,218 Reviews 4.0
Categories:
All, Arts and Literature (89), Best of the Year Title (1), Biography (204), Biography & Memoir (8), Booklist Editor's Choice (2), Business (1), Fiction (554), Genre Fiction (19), Geography & Travel (4), Graphic Novels for Adults (1), Health & Medicine (11), Health and Medicine (2), History (139), History & Travel (10), Illus: Fred Marcellino (1), Memoir (2), Nonfiction (1), Philosophy (1), Philosophy and Psychology (1), Poetry (41), Reference Sources (2), Religion (5), Science (63), Science & Technology (15), Social Sciences (169), Technology (1), Top of the List (7), Travel (2), No Category (267)
Years:
All, 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović
Arts and Literature2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
Arts and Literature2016
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison
Arts and Literature2016
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Arts and Literature2016
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir by Nadja Spiegelman
Arts and Literature2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Biography2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
Biography2016
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
Biography2016
George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones
Biography2016
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
Biography2016
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes by Paul Staiti
Biography2016
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
Biography2016
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Fiction2016
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
Fiction2016
Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler
Fiction2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Fiction2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2016
Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh
Fiction2016
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Fiction2016
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Fiction2016
The Translation of Love: A Novel by Lynne Kutsukake
Fiction2016
How I Became a North Korean: A Novel by Krys Lee
Fiction2016
Before the Wind: A novel by Jim Lynch
Fiction2016
Bright, Precious Days: A novel by Jay McInerney
Fiction2016
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
Fiction2016
Arcadia by Iain Pears
Fiction2016
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Fiction2016
A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl
Fiction2016
Mister Monkey by Francine Prose
Fiction2016
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
Fiction2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Fiction2016
The Virginity of Famous Men by Christine Sneed
Fiction2016
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Fiction2016
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
Fiction2016
As Good as Gone by Larry Watson
Fiction2016
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2016
Barren Cove: A Novel by Ariel S. Winter
Fiction2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Fiction2016
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer
Geography & Travel2016
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
Health & Medicine2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Health & Medicine2016
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
History2016
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
History2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman
History2016
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
History2016
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
History2016
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years by Ian Mortimer
History2016
George Washington: Poems by Adam Fitzgerald
Poetry2016
Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems by Lucia Perillo
Poetry2016
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
Science & Technology2016
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Science & Technology2016
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
Science & Technology2016
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland by Dan Barry
Social Sciences2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Social Sciences2016
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Social Sciences2016
You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia by Jack Lynch
Social Sciences2016
Truevine by Beth Macy
Social Sciences2016
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts
Social Sciences2016
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax
Social Sciences2016
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams
Social Sciences2016

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