Top 20 books of 2016 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Top 20 Best Books of 2016

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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers rate their favorite books of the year to choose our Top 20 Best of Year titles. More about how the books are selected.

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

Hardcover: Sep 2016 | Paperback: Mar 2019

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility - a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.

The Mothers

by Brit Bennett

Hardcover: Oct 2016 | Paperback: Oct 2017

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community - and the things that ultimately haunt us most.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

A Novel

by Bryn Greenwood

Hardcover: Aug 2016 | Paperback: Oct 2017

Critics' Consensus:

A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the troubled Midwestern backdrop of their lives.

Blood at the Root

A Racial Cleansing in America

by Patrick Phillips

Hardcover: Sep 2016 | Paperback: Sep 2017

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko

by Scott Stambach

Hardcover: Aug 2016 | Paperback: Sep 2017

Critics' Consensus:

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko is comic and staggeringly tragic, often both in a single sentence… A grittier, Eastern European, more grown-up The Fault in Our Stars." – Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child

All We Have Left

by Wendy Mills

Hardcover: Aug 2016 | Paperback: Aug 2017

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2016 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel

Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph.

Cruel Beautiful World

by Caroline Leavitt

Hardcover: Oct 2016 | Paperback: Aug 2017

Critics' Consensus:

Set in the early 1970s against the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth.

Miss Jane

by Brad Watson

Hardcover: Jul 2016 | Paperback: Jul 2017

Critics' Consensus:

Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral.

Behold the Dreamers

by Imbolo Mbue

Hardcover: Aug 2016 | Paperback: Jun 2017

Critics' Consensus:

Oprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick

In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young ...

News of the World

by Paulette Jiles

Hardcover: Oct 2016 | Paperback: Jun 2017

Critics' Consensus:

It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his ...

Thanks for the Trouble

by Tommy Wallach

Hardcover: Feb 2016 | Paperback: Jun 2017

Critics' Consensus:

Tommy Wallach, the New York Times bestselling author of the "stunning debut" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) We All Looked Up, delivers a brilliant new novel about a young man who overcomes a crippling loss and finds the courage to live after ...

Mischling

by Affinity Konar

Hardcover: Sep 2016 | Paperback: May 2017

Critics' Consensus:

"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II.

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