My list for the year pertains to books I've read this past year. The following books are listed in alphabetical order by author. I've been leaning more towards Non-Fiction than I have in the past. Moving forward into 2017 - "One Never Knows - Do One?" (Fats Waller)
1. "Heroes of the Fontier" David Eggers (b American) - Previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
Non-Fiction and finalist for the Nat'l Book Award for Fiction
2. "The Moor's Account" by Laila Lalami (b Morocco) was a Pulitizer Prize Finalist for Fiction
3. "13 Ways of Looking" by Colum McCann (b Ireland) previous winner of the Nat'l Book Award
4. "Nutshell" by Ian McEwan (b Britain) previous Man Booker Prize winner (and 6 nominations)
5. "The Fisherman" by Chigozie Obioma (b Nigeria) received the Man Booker nomination
6. "The Sympathizer" by Than Ngyuen (b Viet Nam) winner of this year's Pulitzer Prizer
7. "Swing Time" by Zadie Smith (b Britain) previous Man Booker nomination
8. "Doors" by Magda Szabo (b Hungary) received the French Prize Femina Etranger Award
9. "Hillbilly Elegy" by J D Vance (b American) Autobiography
10. "A Man Without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut - Memoir
I'm awarding two razzie awards for the most self-indulgent non-fiction works this year to:
"Tapesty of Fortune" by Elizabeth Berg (b American)
"Superficial" by Andy Cohen (b American)
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