Top Ten Books of 2016
His new novel, “The Underground Railroad,” is as different as can be from the zombie book. It touches on the historical novel and the slave story, but what it does with those genres is striking and imaginative.
The Books of The Times review last Thursday, about “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi, who died of lung cancer last year, misstated a word in a passage in the book. Dr. Kalanithi said he was a neurosurgical resident at the time of his diagnosis, not a neurological resident.
Swing Time is a novel by British writer Zadie Smith. Smith began to read excerpts from her novel in autumn 2015 with an intended release date of autumn 2016. The release date was later confirmed as 15 November 2016.
Winner of a 2016 National Book Award, The Underground Railroad is the story of Cora, a slave who escapes via the Underground Railroad, which is rendered as an actual railroad system. Through its brilliant visions of a past both ours and not quite ours, The Underground Railroad depicts America's horrifying history with a devastating clarity.
“Hillbilly Elegy,” in my mind, divides into two components: the family stories Mr. Vance tells — most of which are no doubt better experienced on the page than they were in real life — and the questions he raises.
Eviction itself provides the dramatic punctuation in Desmond’s story. If a family’s income after rent is in the two-digit zone, there’s a powerful temptation to skip a month’s rent to buy groceries or pay a utility bill to keep the heat on.
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The narrator of Strout’s powerful and melancholy new novel, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” might be a distant relation of Olive’s, though she is raised in poverty outside the small town of Amgash, Ill., rather than in Maine, and her adult home, where most of the novel takes place, is in Manhattan.
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“Imagine Me Gone” will be on many “Best of 2016” book lists. This amazing read illustrates how mental illness is exhausting, time consuming, and financially devistatiing for the friends and families of those sufferers. Mental illness affects not just the ones who have the illness; mental illness affects the sufferer’s loved ones as well. Although the subject matter is depressing, author Adam Haslett adds laugh-out-loud humor to balance the read, to make it more readable.
“What Belongs to You” is a rich, important debut, an instant classic to be savored by all lovers of serious fiction because of, not despite, its subject: a gay man’s endeavor to fathom his own heart.
USA TODAY Rating Is it fair to compare Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book The Gene: An Intimate History to The Emperor of All Maladies, his 2010 masterpiece tracing the history of cancer? Both beautifully navigate a sea of complicated medical information in a way that is digestible, poignant, and engaging; there is consistency in scope and structure between the two.
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Apr 26, 2016 Book Riot Community added it This novel about a young woman learning about life, love, and wine in New York City gave me the worst book hangover. Tess moves from the Midwest to the city with no job and no money in her bank account and by sheer luck, gets a job at a posh foodie restaurant.
Or maybe “Another Brooklyn” is the secret Brooklyn of girlhood, where young women find strength in the identities they develop together. Referring to the boys of the neighborhood, August observes: “The four of us together weren’t something they understood.
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Commonwealth by Ann Patchett is a 2016 Harper publication. This book is a bit of a departure for me, but I’ve been craving something different, something more profound and literary in nature. With Commonwealth, I came to the right place.
By small shifts in perspective, the novel (winner of the National Book Award in fiction) ventures to new places in the narrative of slavery, or rather to places where it actually has something new to say: about America’s foundational sins, and the ways black history is too often stolen by white narrators.
The Return. Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between. By Hisham Matar. 243 pages. Random House. $26.
Her sanctuary was the laboratory of her father, who taught introductory physics and earth science at a local community college. There she discovered the rituals and magic of science: She embraced its rules and procedures and the attention to detail it demanded.
Her new novel, “Barkskins,” is a clamorous epic of environmental despoliation. It plays out across 717 pages and more than 300 years, from the arrival of woodcutting French settlers in Canada in 1693 through an eyewitness account of melting glaciers in 2013.
WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS Stories By Helen Oyeyemi 325 pp. Riverhead Books. $27. Angela Carter, in a letter to Robert Coover, once wrote: “I really do believe that a fiction absolutely self-conscious of itself as a different form of human experience than reality (that is, not a logbook of ...
Paulette Jiles is a poet and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the bestselling novels Enemy Women and Stormy Weather. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
‘Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life’ By Elaine Showalter September 22, 2016 When Shirley Jackson died of heart failure in 1965, at the age of 48, obituaries described her as a popular writer of horror fiction, and especially as the author of “The Lottery,” a short story that had stunned New Yorker readers in 1948 with its deadpan account of a stoning ritual in New England.
White Trash offers a deep-diving history of people like Bryan going all the way back to the first European incursions into the Americas. From the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the present day, Isenberg insists, America has always had a class hierarchy and has never offered equal opportunity to all (white) comers.
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This is how Noah Hawley kicks off his ingeniously nerve-racking “Before the Fall.” If you didn’t already know that Mr. Hawley is a celebrated storyteller, you’ll know it before you finish the first page of this novel, his fifth.
Yet his true concerns, one suspects, err more towards the philosophical. As the title (taken from Yeats’s Byzantium) implies, this book aims to be a reckoning with “all that man is”. And here, it has to be said, Szalay’s verdict is depressing. Far from celebrating’s man’s infinite variety, the book reveals his endless repetitiveness.
Nutshell is the 14th novel by English author and screenwriter Ian McEwan. Published in 2016, it retells William Shakespeare's play Hamlet from the point of view of an unborn child.
Ms. Bennett is now 26, and “The Mothers,” which will be released this week by Riverhead Books, is shaping up to be one of the fall’s biggest literary debuts, with an initial printing of 108,000 copies and starred reviews in Booklist, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.
Much of the writing in “Born to Run” is this fresh — the sound of a writer who could have phoned his book in but did not. There are dollops of pretension and word-goo in “Born to Run.”
The 25 Best Books of 2016. A collection of the best novels, non-fiction, and memoirs from the past year.
Some readers may be thrown a little by the title of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Spiegel & Grau, 304 pp., ***½ stars). But when The Daily Show host explains what it means, an alternate universe — at once distant and yet uncomfortably close to home — opens up before your eyes: A world where the absurdity of race is institutionalized into authoritarian rule.
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TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT By Maria Semple Illustrated. 259 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $27. Near the beginning of “Today Will Be Different,” Maria Semple’s funny, smart, emotionally reverberant new novel, her narrator, Eleanor Flood, taking private poetry lessons, has marked up Robert Lowell ...
Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Queenpin, The Song Is You, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, The Fever and You Will Know Me. Her next book, Give Me Your Hand, will be published in July 2018.
M organ was clearly meditating on the book she was about to unleash, a novel that compared to most literary fiction reads like a strange, majestic anachronism. The Sport of Kings is long. It is dense. It is violent. It is strident. It is pretentious. It is portentous.
All the Birds in the Sky is a trove of near misses and reads like a low-budget, bad action flick. Among its flaws, the book contains: characters who lack depth, children who talk like adults, forced romance, and a hollow plot lacking substance.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany. Previews of the play began at the Palace Theatre, London on 7 June 2016, and it officially premiered on 30 July 2016.
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ZERO K By Don DeLillo 274 pp. Scribner. $27. Something feels not quite right about subjecting Don DeLillo to the ordinary critical apparatus. I don’t read a DeLillo novel for its plot, character, setting; for who betrayed whom and how hard life with Mother was; for Phoenix days and Bombay nights ...
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A woodcut from a 1669 pamphlet called ‘The Flying Serpent or Strange News Out of Essex’. I n Sarah Perry’s second novel, 1890s London is mad about the sciences, especially palaeontology. Every six months someone publishes a paper “setting out ways and places extinct animals might live on”, while smart women collect ammonites or wear necklaces of fossil teeth set in silver.
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Profoundly intimate, funny, raucous, articulate; this is a book for every man who ever thought of women as an alien species; and for every woman who was ever made to feel like a stranger in her own skin.
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Modern Lovers was the first book I received from my Book of the Month Club. I was so excited when I saw that it was one of the books for this month, because I had hoped it would have been selected for another book club I am a part of, but it wasn't.