Best 2016 Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking

by Ann Patchett

A satisfying meat-and-potatoes domestic novel from one of our finest writers. Full review >

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by Sonya Chung

Elegant and empathetic, a book impossible to put down. Full review >

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by Stuart Nadler

Love this writer. Love these characters. Full review >

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by Jonathan Lee

Lee’s writing has a marked freshness, his pacing and dialogue are exceptional, and every scene is deftly handled. This is a... Full review >

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by Emma Donoghue

Her contemporary thriller Room (2010) made the author an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome... Full review >

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by Jacqueline Woodson

A stunning achievement from one of the quietly great masters of our time. Full review >

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by Richard Russo

Russo hits his trademark trifecta: satisfying, hilarious, and painlessly profound. Full review >

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by Pamela Erens

Powerful—aesthetically and viscerally. Full review >

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by Helen Dunmore

This subtle, off-kilter foray into John le Carré territory—a chilling, thoughtful, deeply romantic drama about the... Full review >

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by Lydia Millet

A top-notch tale of domestic paranoia that owes a debt to spooky psychological page-turners like Rosemary’s Baby yet is... Full review >

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by Paulette Jiles

Lyrical and affecting, the novel succeeds in skirting clichés through its empathy and through the depth of its major... Full review >

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by Chris Bachelder

Bachelder’s take on manhood is sharply observed and sympathetic and funny enough to win over even those readers who abhor... Full review >

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