The NYT Book Review’s editors announced their top ten books of 2016 (with individual lists from the newspaper’s critics still to come), as usual picking a mix of expected and unexpected titles. In fiction, there is Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award winner and already the clear, consensus “book of the year” leader in our annual aggregated listings, The Underground Railroad, plus: The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan The North Water, by Ian McGuire The Vegetarian, by Han Kang War and Turpentine, by Stefan Hertmans The nonfiction list includes consensus top title Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, plus: At the Existentialist […]