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Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2016

31 December 2016

Barkskins - Annie Proulx

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2016

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  1. Barkskins
    Annie Proulx
  2. What Belongs to You
    Garth Greenwell
  3. Blood in the Water
    The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
    Heather Ann Thompson
  4. Evicted
    Poverty and Profit in the American City
    Matthew Desmond
  5. Guilty Thing
    A Life of Thomas De Quincey
    Frances Wilson
  6. A Kingdom of Their Own
    The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
    Joshua Partlow
  7. Ninety-Nine Stories of God
    Joy Williams
  8. Secondhand Time
    The Last of the Soviets
    Svetlana Alexievich
  9. The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead
  10. The Vegetarian
    Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith

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