Books of 2016

Favorites below. Everything else here.

• The Bean Trees: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
• Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Collected: Living with the Things You Love by Fritz Karsh
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
• The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes by Frank Bures
• Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
• Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt
• Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff by Alison Stewart
• Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
• Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
• So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
• Trashed by Derf Backderf
• Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money By Wasting Less Food by Dana Gunders
• White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
• Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal
• Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia by Jack Lynch