New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,264 ratings
2.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,313 ratings
3.
When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,234 ratings
4.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
by: Han Kang
3.64 avg rating — 320,336 ratings
5.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,940 ratings
6.
Commonwealth
Commonwealth 3.83 avg rating — 199,103 ratings
7.
The North Water
The North Water 3.98 avg rating — 33,756 ratings
8.
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1)
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 182,206 ratings
9.
The Nix
The Nix 4.08 avg rating — 83,552 ratings
10.
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Do Not Say We Have Nothing 3.92 avg rating — 23,795 ratings
11.
Before the Fall
Before the Fall 3.72 avg rating — 131,403 ratings
12.
The Association of Small Bombs
The Association of Small Bombs 3.57 avg rating — 14,514 ratings
13.
Behold the Dreamers
Behold the Dreamers 3.95 avg rating — 84,453 ratings
14.
Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,894 ratings
15.
Swing Time
Swing Time 3.56 avg rating — 76,237 ratings
16.
The Return
The Return 4.16 avg rating — 14,616 ratings
17.
Mischling
Mischling 3.83 avg rating — 15,993 ratings
18.
Hot Milk
Hot Milk 3.49 avg rating — 38,707 ratings
19.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings
20.
LaRose
LaRose 3.91 avg rating — 24,331 ratings
21.
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 4.46 avg rating — 20,849 ratings
22.
Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn 3.87 avg rating — 41,162 ratings
23.
Barkskins
Barkskins 3.83 avg rating — 20,060 ratings
24.
Nutshell
Nutshell 3.68 avg rating — 56,358 ratings
25.
Moonglow
Moonglow 3.80 avg rating — 34,356 ratings
26.
Here I Am
Here I Am 3.64 avg rating — 27,406 ratings
27.
Born to Run
Born to Run 4.19 avg rating — 53,079 ratings
28.
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill 4.11 avg rating — 16,989 ratings
29.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
30.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 3.81 avg rating — 48,955 ratings
31.
Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 17,104 ratings
32.
Zero K
Zero K 3.19 avg rating — 12,196 ratings
33.
The Sport of Kings
The Sport of Kings 3.57 avg rating — 3,755 ratings
34.
All That Man Is
All That Man Is 3.66 avg rating — 9,259 ratings
35.
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by: Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,337 ratings
36.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,311 ratings
37.
End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 148,351 ratings
38.
All the Single Ladies
All the Single Ladies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,281 ratings
38.
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York 4.33 avg rating — 964 ratings
40.
The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits
The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits 4.03 avg rating — 278 ratings
41.
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 4.15 avg rating — 850 ratings
42.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 3.76 avg rating — 24,555 ratings
43.
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst 3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings
44.
Reputations
Reputations 3.71 avg rating — 3,039 ratings
45.
Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 11,629 ratings
45.
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,015 ratings
47.
You'll Grow Out of It
You'll Grow Out of It 3.80 avg rating — 26,778 ratings
48.
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS 4.44 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
49.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America 4.17 avg rating — 781 ratings
50.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 4.20 avg rating — 552 ratings
51.
Iza's Ballad
Iza's Ballad 4.32 avg rating — 4,765 ratings
52.
Mister Monkey
Mister Monkey 3.42 avg rating — 2,550 ratings
53.
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 4.02 avg rating — 5,210 ratings
54.
The Fortunes
The Fortunes 3.64 avg rating — 2,141 ratings
55.
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 4.19 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
56.
The Mortifications
The Mortifications 3.17 avg rating — 616 ratings
57.
Today Will Be Different
Today Will Be Different 3.16 avg rating — 70,577 ratings
58.
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America 3.91 avg rating — 449 ratings
59.
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,488 ratings
60.
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America 4.33 avg rating — 454 ratings
61.
Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years 3.93 avg rating — 732 ratings
62.
Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939
Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 4.43 avg rating — 2,987 ratings
63.
Collected Poems: 1950–2012
Collected Poems: 1950–2012 4.53 avg rating — 229 ratings
63.
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea 3.74 avg rating — 575 ratings
65.
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt 4.07 avg rating — 476 ratings
66.
Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo
Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo 2.92 avg rating — 699 ratings
67.
The English and their History
The English and their History 4.21 avg rating — 2,694 ratings
68.
Look: Poems
Look: Poems 4.31 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
69.
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
70.
Children of the New World
Children of the New World 3.75 avg rating — 3,977 ratings
71.
The Little Red Chairs
The Little Red Chairs 3.25 avg rating — 10,679 ratings
71.
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror 3.82 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
73.
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Ninety-Nine Stories of God 3.66 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
74.
At the Existentialist Café
At the Existentialist Café 4.24 avg rating — 18,510 ratings
75.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
76.
In the Darkroom
In the Darkroom 3.92 avg rating — 4,143 ratings
77.
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan 4.32 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
78.
A Gambler's Anatomy
A Gambler's Anatomy 3.16 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
79.
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS 4.24 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
80.
Still Here
Still Here 3.41 avg rating — 982 ratings
80.
War and Turpentine
War and Turpentine 3.92 avg rating — 11,878 ratings
82.
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story 4.05 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
83.
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
by: Beth Macy
3.49 avg rating — 3,714 ratings
84.
The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature
The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature 4.20 avg rating — 191 ratings
85.
Unforbidden Pleasures: Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality
Unforbidden Pleasures: Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality 3.82 avg rating — 704 ratings
86.
Black Water
Black Water 3.39 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
87.
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon 3.93 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
88.
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler 3.81 avg rating — 253 ratings
89.
The Gloaming
The Gloaming 3.83 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
90.
House of Lords and Commons: Poems
House of Lords and Commons: Poems 3.77 avg rating — 340 ratings
91.
The Life-Writer
The Life-Writer 3.54 avg rating — 325 ratings
92.
The Mirror Thief
The Mirror Thief 3.01 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
93.
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
by: Dan Fox
3.81 avg rating — 942 ratings
94.
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family
Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family 3.90 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
95.
When in French: Love in a Second Language
When in French: Love in a Second Language 3.51 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
96.
The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America
The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America 3.14 avg rating — 70 ratings
97.
In Gratitude
In Gratitude 3.73 avg rating — 733 ratings
98.
Valiant Gentlemen
Valiant Gentlemen 3.76 avg rating — 254 ratings
99.
Weathering
Weathering
by: Lucy Wood
3.65 avg rating — 834 ratings
100.
Orson Welles, Vol. 3: One-Man Band (Orson Welles, #3)
Orson Welles, Vol. 3: One-Man Band (Orson Welles, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 180 ratings