The best books of 2016

From the New York Times, Goodreads, Brain Pickings and more. Browse the lists.

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
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Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
On3lists
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon
On3lists
All That Man Is
David Szalay
On2lists
White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
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Collected Poems: 1974 - 2004
Rita Dove
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilisation'
James Stourton
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
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Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Philippe Sands
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby
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Little Labors
Rivka Galchen
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Upstream
Mary Oliver
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
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