Publishers Weekly has revealed their top 10 reads for 2016. The list included a book about one of America’s darkest moments that’s depicted in a new light as well as a book written by a Nobel prize winner.
• Barkskins by Annie Proulx (Scribner)
• What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
• Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster by Joshua Partlow (Knopf)
• Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams (Tin House)
• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, trans. from the Russian by Bela Shayevich (Random House)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• The Vegetarian Han Kang, trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith (Hogarth)
