Best Heartrending Nonfiction of 2016

by Heather Ann Thompson

Impressively authoritative and thoughtfully composed. Full review >

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by Gary Younge

Important, deeply affecting, and certain to alarm readers who care about the lives of children in a gun-ridden society. Full review >

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by Ben Rawlence

A significant, timely, and gloomy tale that reveals the human costs of a growing world crisis. Full review >

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by Janine di Giovanni

This brilliant, necessary book will hopefully do for Syria what Herr’s Dispatches (1977) did for Vietnam. Full review >

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by Paul Kalanithi

A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular... Full review >

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by Ibram X. Kendi

Racism is the enduring scar on the American consciousness. In this ambitious, magisterial book, Kendi reveals just how deep... Full review >

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by Beth Macy

This first-rate journey into human trafficking, slavery, and familial bonding is an engrossing example of spirited,... Full review >

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by Matthew Desmond

This stunning, remarkable book—a scholar’s 21st-century How the Other Half Lives—demands a wide audience. Full review >

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by Svetlana Alexievich translated by Bela Shayevich

Profoundly significant literature as history. Full review >

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by Dan Barry

Gently, empathetically, and indelibly, Barry conveys a tale of unthinkable brutality. Full review >

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