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December 22, 2016By Michael Cader

The Very Best of the Best Books of 2016

December 22, 2016By Michael Cader

A couple more notable “best of 2016” lists may still trickle in (USA Today tends to run at the very end of the year) but with a wealth of lists already out — we have counted 65 in all — it’s time for our final, comprehensive aggregation of the very best books of the year. (We will update this post as necessary over the next week or so to reflect any additional lists.) As has been the case from the very start, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is the runaway consensus “book of the year.” With 43 votes it smashed all the records, […]

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