Collage of 2016’s Most Critically Acclaimed Books (back to list)

Click for more detail about The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Click for more detail about Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
Click for more detail about Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Click for more detail about As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Click for more detail about Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Click for more detail about Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Click for more detail about Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Click for more detail about Loving Day: A Novel by Mat Johnson
Click for more detail about The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Click for more detail about The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
Click for more detail about Another Brooklyn: A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi
Click for more detail about The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Click for more detail about Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Collected Poems: 1974–2004 by Rita Dove
Click for more detail about March Book Three by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Click for more detail about Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
Click for more detail about The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Click for more detail about Ghost: Running for His Life or From It? by Jason Reynolds
Click for more detail about Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Click for more detail about Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Click for more detail about I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
Click for more detail about March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Click for more detail about The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
Click for more detail about Fifty-Five Unemployed and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better <strike>Retirement</strike> Life by Elizabeth White
Click for more detail about Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Click for more detail about Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
Click for more detail about Second House from the Corner by Sadeqa Johnson
Click for more detail about Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
Click for more detail about Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly
Click for more detail about Counting Descent by Clint Smith
Click for more detail about Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
Click for more detail about Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Click for more detail about The Perfect Find by Tia Williams
Click for more detail about Solemn by Kalisha Buckhanon
Click for more detail about Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness by Donna Janell Bowman
Click for more detail about Insurrections: Stories by Rion Amilcar Scott
Click for more detail about The Ex Chronicles by Sharon Lucas, Cheryl Cloyd Robbins, and Others
Click for more detail about We Came to America by Faith Ringgold
Click for more detail about The Cartel 4: Diamonds Are Forever by Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman
Click for more detail about Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan by Robert Liu-Trujillo
Click for more detail about Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
Click for more detail about Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper