The onslaught of best-of-the-year lists continues. This time The Washington Post has collected it’s top ten books of 2016. There are a few surprises alongside some familiar titles.
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Trespasser by Tana French
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead