Our 10 Favorite Books of 2016
In a year full of great reads, ten stayed with us long after we'd turned the last page: novels that made it easy to forgo Netflix, essays that fed our souls, fairy tales with a modern spin. In short, 2016 was one for the books!
By Leigh Haber, Dotun Akintoye, Natalie Beach
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
By Helen Oyeyemi
336 pages;
Riverhead Books
The most inventive—at times practically
psychedelic—story collection of the year is a fantasia of partially
connected fairy tales the author has wholly reimagined, imbuing them
with new relevance for today’s urgent conversations around race, gender,
love.
Published 11/18/2016
