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