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Paul Yoon, Once the Shore
Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night
Idra Novey, Ways to Disappear
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Fay Wolf, New Order
Katy Simpson Smith, Free Men
Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You
Michael Dirda, Browsings
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Shirley Barrett, Rush Oh!
Maylis de Kerangal, The Heart (trans. Sam Taylor)
Jennifer Grotz, Window Left Open
Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn
Sara Majka, Cities I’ve Never Lived In
Lindsay Faye, Jane Steele
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Story of Kullervo (edited by Verlyn Flieger)
Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words (translated by Ann Goldstein)
Diana Gabaldon, Virgins
JoJo Moyes, Me Before You
Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Jordan Zandi, Solarium
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Aimee Nezhukumtathil & Ross Gay, Lace and Pyrite
Claire Harman, Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Janna Levin, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette, Wonder Woman: Earth One, Volume One
Ellen Prentiss Campbell, The Bowl with Gold Seams
Richard Russo, Everybody’s Fool
L. S. Hilton, Maestra
Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible
Jennifer Stewart Miller, A Fox Appears
Louise Erdrich, LaRose
Alsyon Foster, Heart Attack Watch
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story
Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl
Milena Busquets, This Too Shall Pass
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, Hamilton: The Revolution
Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Saga: Volume 6
Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop
Jana Prikryl, The After Party
James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Patrick Ryan, The Dream Life of Astronauts
Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
Maxine Kumin, And Short the Season
Angela Palm, Riverine
Li-Young Lee, The Word from His Song
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler
Erica Wright, The Granite Moth
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude (translated by James O’Connor)
The Best American Poetry 2016, edited by David Lehman (series) and Edward Hirsch (guest)
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Marisa Silver, Little Nothing
Monica Youn, Blackacre
Junot Díaz (editor) and Heidi Pitlor (series editor), The Best American Short Stories 2016
Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
Donika Kelly, Bestiary
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Brit Bennett, The Mothers
Donika Kelly, Bestiary
Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes
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W. S. Merwin, Garden Time
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Simon Armitage, Book of Matches
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