Books of 2016
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman β β β β β
- Backpacking with Dracula by Leif Pettersen β β β ββ
- Beloved by Toni Morrison β β β β β
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates β β β β β
- Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith β β β ββ
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine β β β β β
- Death From the Skies! by Philip Plait β β β β β
- The Graduate by Charles Webb β β β β β
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift β β β ββ
- Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. β β β β β
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany β β β ββ
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling β β β β β
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling β β β β β
- Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie β β β β β
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman β β β β β
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi β β β β β
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson β β β β β
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee β β β β β
Recommended Reading 2016
- When Aleppo Retweets Aren’t Enough: It’s Time to Address the “Bystander Effect” by Sam Becker,Β The Hollywood Reporter, December 16
- Hillary Clinton Toasts Her Mega-Donors at Donald Trump’s Old Hotel by Michael Daly,Β The Daily Beast, December 16
- How Clinton lost Michigan β and blew the election by Edward-Isaac Dovere,Β Politico, December 14
- Extreme Isolation Scars State Inmates by Andy Mannix,Β Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 4
- Prepare For Regime Change, Not Policy Change by N. Turkuler Isiksel,Β Dissent Magazine, November 13
- Autocracy: Rules for Survival by Masha Gessen,Β The New York Review of Books, November 10
- World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns by Damian Carrington,Β The Guardian, October 26
- The white flight of Derek Black by Eli Saslow,Β The Washington Post, October 15
- Humans Won’t Ever Live Far Beyond 115 Years by Ed Yong,Β The Atlantic, October 5
- Our dangerously low expectations for Donald Trump could help him ride to victory in November by Sarah Kendzior,Β Quartz, September 28
- I Used to Be a Human Being by Andrew Sullivan,Β New York Magazine, September 18
- Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered by Michelle Dean,Β BuzzFeed, August 18
- Venerable St. Paul dance studio to close after more than 60 years by James Walsh,Β Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 18
- The Choice by Umair Haque,Β Medium, August 16
- On Monday by Lisa Senters,Β Human Parts, August 15
- Juanita Broaddrick Wants To Be Believed by Katie J.M. Baker,Β BuzzFeed, August 14
- Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief by Andrew E. Kramer, Mike McIntire and Barry Meier,Β The New York Times, August 14
- Meet Minnesota’s Mini Trump by Michelle Cottle,Β The Atlantic, August 12
- As the nation’s capital booms, poor tenants face eviction over as little as $25 by Terrence McCoy,Β The Washington Post, August 8
- Trump and the End of Truth by Roger Cohen,Β The New York Times, July 25
- Trump’s Proposed First Move Eerily Like Hitler’s by Eric Schmeltzer,Β The Huffington Post, July 20
- The myth of Paul Ryan by Katrina vanden Heuvel,Β The Washington Post, July 5
- American atheists are on the rise. They have radically different visions of the future. by Emmett Rensin,Β Vox, June 29
- How American Politics Went Insane by Jonathan Rauch,Β The Atlantic, June
- How Bernie Sanders Exposed the Democrats’ Racial Rift by Isaac J. Bailey,Β Politico Magazine, June 8
- There Is No Justice In Killing Dylan RoofΒ by Clint Smith,Β The New Yorker, June 4
- Hillary Clinton vs. Herself by Rebecca Traister,Β New York Magazine, May 30
- The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald TrumpΒ by Andy Gopnik,Β The New Yorker, May 20
- The strange story of Sewanee, the KKK, and a Franklin County Gay/Straight Alliance by Sarah Jones,Β Scalawag, May 19
- 192 days as John Doe by Deborah Halber,Β Mosaic, May 17
- Private schools, painful secrets by Jenn Abelson, Bella English, Jonathan Saltzman, and Todd Wallack,Β The Boston Globe, May 9
- Where Did All the Dicks Go? by John McDermott,Β MEL MagazineΒ onΒ Medium, May 6
- America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny by Andrew Sullivan,Β New York Magazine, May 1
- After drones: the indelible mark of America’s remote control warfare by Spencer Ackerman,Β The Guardian, April 21
- Twitter Might Be The Most-Advertised Company in History β And They’re Still Fucking It Up by Jon Hendren,Β Medium, March 30
- You won’t believe how Nike lost Steph to Under Armour by Ethan Sherwood Strauss,Β ESPN, March 24
- Trumpmenbashi by Sarah Kendzior,Β The Diplomat, March 22
- Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption β and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy by Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda,Β The Intercept, March 18
- How a Ragtag Gang of Retirees Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in British History by Mark Seal,Β Vanity Fair, March 16
- How It Felt to Be Kicked Out of a Trump Rally for Being Black and Wearing a Keffiyeh byΒ Chenjerai Kumanyika,Β Vice, March 10
- The Demagogue and the Abyss by Umair Haque,Β UmairHaque.com, March 3
- Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish? by Kelsey Osgood,Β Longreads, March
- Sail (Far) Away: At Sea with America’s Largest Floating Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists by Anna Merlan,Β Jezebel, February 25
- Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,Β Politico, February 22
- A Message to Our Customers by Tim Cook,Β Apple.com, February 16
- I Was Raped at Baylor and This Is My Story byΒ Stefanie Mundhenk,Β A Book I’ll Never Write, February 4
- Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination by Ta-Nehisi Coates,Β The Atlantic, January 24
- How the Las Vegas Review-Journal Unmasked Its Owners by Maria Bustillos,Β The New Yorker, January 8
- The Man Without a Shadow (adapted from the novelΒ The Man Without a Shadow) by Joyce Carol Oates,Β Narrative Magazine
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