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Archive for December 19th, 2016

Here are the Best Books of 2016

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Fiction:

Enchanted Islands, by Allison Amend (Nan Talese)

Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood (Hogarth)

Moonglow, by Michael Chabon (Harper)

The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien (Little, Brown and Company)

Poetry

Garden Time, by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon)

Biography

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises, by Lesley M.M. Blume (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Peacock & Vine, by A. S. Byatt (Knopf)

Non-Fiction

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli (Riverhead)

Written by Joe Peschel

December 19th, 2016 at 2:44 pm