San Francisco Chronicle: Top 10 Books of 2016 - Year-End Lists

San Francisco Chronicle: Top 10 Books of 2016

13 January 2017

The San Francisco Chronicle: Top 10 Books of 2016

[see also Favorite Books of 2022 • 100 Recommended Books of 2018 • Top 10 Books of 2018 • 100 Recommended Books of 2016 • Top 10 Books of 2015]

Fiction

Nonfiction

Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France
Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

Beth Macy

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