Here are the Best Books of 2016
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)