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By Carol Van Why
Since late last year every serious media outlet has published their version of a Best Books of 2016 list. Just scanning these lists embarrasses me, because most of the time I haven’t read a fraction of the dozens of books mentioned. This year I’m putting less pressure on myself. I scanned those lists just to find titles in the 1666 Coffman Library’s collection. I have to say that I’m impressed. Find them in the Library’s shelving sections shown in bold print below. BIOGRAPHY Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates Hillbilly Elegy – J. D. Vance Lab Girl – Hope Jahren BIOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterley DRAMA Hamilton: The Revolution – Lin-Manuel Miranda FICTION Commonwealth – Ann Patchett La Rose – Louise Erdrich They May Not Mean to But They Do – Cathleen Schine Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead Wintering – Peter Geye GENDER ISSUES All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation – Rebecca Traister MEDICINE AND HEALTH When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi MYSTERY A Great Reckoning – Louise Penny SCIENCE/TECH/MATH The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars – Dava Sobel I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life – Ed Yong WORLD POLITICS/GOVERNMENT Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right– Jane Mayer Comments are closed.
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