Los Angeles Public Library Best of the YearNon-Fiction2016

Given by Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL)

Other Names: Los Angeles Public Library Best Book of the Year, Los Angeles Public Library Best Fiction, LAPL Best of the Year, LA Public Library Best of the Year
51 Works 45,355 Books 2,005 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Children's Books (341), Fiction (408), Fiction & Literature (45), Graphic Novels (68), Non-Fiction (476), Teen (311)
Years:
All, 2023 (27), 2022 (45), 2021 (28), 2020 (37), 2019 (47), 2018 (49), 2017 (65), 2016 (51), 2015 (53), 2014 (37), 2013 (37)
Announced:
December 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkYear
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
2016
CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush by Cathy Alter
2016
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To by Dean Burnett
2016
Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China by Fuchsia Dunlop
2016
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
2016
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel
2016
Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles by John Mack Faragher
2016
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante
2016
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
2016
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
2016
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
2016
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant
2016
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
2016
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
2016
Cook Korean! A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha
2016
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
2016
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston
2016
The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
2016
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
2016
Focus on playwrights : portraits and Interviews by Susan Johann
2016
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
2016
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
2016
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
2016
You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
2016
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
2016
A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
2016
Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate our Shared Humanity by Barbara Abdeni Massaad
2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
2016
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr
2016
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life by Liesa Mignogna
2016
Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking (Comix Journalism) by Anne Elizabeth Moore
2016
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide by Jane Bryant Quinn
2016
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
2016
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
2016
Protein Ninja: Power through Your Day with 100 Hearty Plant-Based Recipes that Pack a Protein Punch by Terry Hope Romero
2016
The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
2016
Los Angeles Central Library: A History of Its Art and Architecture by Arnold Schwartzman
2016
Born to Run: The Autobiography by Bruce Springsteen
2016
West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein
2016
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood
2016
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
2016
Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
2016
Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker by Thomas Vinciguerra
2016
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
2016
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox
2016
We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler
2016
Zero Belly Smoothies by David Zinczenko
2016

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