20 Best Books of 2016 on 36 Lists of “best”
If you are looking for a good book to spend the winter, you will definitely find it on this list. These are the books that most often make the “best of 2016” lists.
Why bother reading a bunch of book lists yourself when you can let someone comb the data for you? Quartz’s Kira Bindrim did just that. After reviewing nearly 40 different lists of the “best books of 2016” from sources such as The New York Times, NPR, The Telegraph, Publishers Weekly, and even a handful of celebrities, Quartz has compiled a definitive list of the top 20. Here are the 10 most popular picks:
- Underground Railroad, Coulson Whitehead (on 24 lists)
- Swing Time, Zadie Smith (on 16 lists)
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond (on 15 lists)
- Homecoming, Yaa Gyasi (on 12 lists)
- Vegetarian, Han Kang (on 11 lists)
- Emma Cline ” Girls” (10 lists)
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalaniti (on 9 lists)
- Gen, Siddhartha Mukherjee (on 9 lists)
- Commonwealth, Anne Patchett (on 9 lists)
- World News, Paulette Giles (on 8 lists)
The complete list includes 13 fiction and seven popular science books on topics ranging from race and Russia to music and murder. You can find out more about the sources used and see the full list at the link below.
List of the best books of 2016, which is obtained by combining 36 lists of “Best books of 2016” | Quartz