We'd like you to give you a list of the best books of the year, but since we couldn't read all of the 250,000 books published in 2016, here's a selection of some of the great ones.
You may want to use this as a cheat sheet to buy a book as a gift for friends or loved ones. And of course, you may want to treat yourself over the holidays and cozy up for an exciting read.
We surveyed a few board members of the Vancouver Writers Festival — people who love books and who read a lot of them. Here are some of their favourite books from 2016.
Fiction
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan*
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett*
- Moonglow by Michael Chabon*
- Teardown by Clea Young
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi*
- Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin
Non-fiction
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer*
- The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy by Chris Bayley
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah*
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi*
- Price Paid by Bev Sellars
- Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemarie Sullivan
- “House of the Lords and Commons” by Ishion Hutchison (poetry)
*Also chosen by the New York Times as Best books of the year
Happy reading and happy holidays to you and yours.
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