Best Books of 2016

67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means

The A-Z Guide to Food as Medicine by Diane Kraft; Ara DerMarderosian

Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society by Daniel Jean-Jacques (Editor); Toyin Falola (Editor)

Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong by Morten Jerven

Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism by J. Samaine Lockwood

Astrophysics in a Nutshell by Dan Maoz

The Banjo: America's African Instrument by Laurent Dubois

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender; Rick Tetzeli

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America by Catherine M. Cameron (Editor); Paul Kelton (Editor); Alan C. Swedlund (Editor)

Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion by Kelly Bulkeley

The Big Trial: Law as Public Spectacle by Lawrence M. Friedman

Birds of New Guinea: by Bruce M. Beehler; John C. Anderton (Illustrator); Szabolcs Kókay (Illustrator); Thane K. Pratt

The Black Mirror: Looking at Life Through Death by Raymond Tallis

The Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity by Darren E. Grem

Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums by Samuel J. Redman

Breakthrough!: 100 Astronomical Images That Changed Our World View by Robert Gendler; Robert Jay GaBany

A Brief History of Numbers by Leo Corry

Bringing Montessori to America: S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education by Gerald L. Gutek; Patricia A. Gutek

Capitalism: A Short History by Jurgen Kocka

The Case for U. S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century by Brad Roberts

Cell Biology by the Numbers by Ron Milo; Rob Phillips

Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-first Century by Tace Hedrick

The Cinema of Urban Crisis : Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City by Lawrence Webb

Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson

Code Warriors; NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky

The Crisis of Campus Sexual Violence: Critical Perspectives on Prevention and Response by Sara Carrigan Wooten (Editor); Roland W. Mitchell (Editor)

Darkroom Dynamics: A Guide to Creative Darkroom Techniques: 25th Anniversary Annotated Reissue by Jim Stone

Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story by Thomas N. Mitchell

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen; Larry M. Bartels

Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools by John B. Diamond; Amanda E. Lewis

Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways From Slavery to Obama by Jennifer Jensen Wallach (Editor); Psyche Williams-Forson (Foreword by); Rebecca Sharpless (Afterword by)

Developing Young Minds: From Conception To Kindergarten by Rebecca Shore

Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar by Jas Obrecht

Ebola: An Evolving Story by James Lyons-Weiler

Edible Seaweeds of the World by Leonel Pereira

Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness To Create A Unified Theory of Physics by Paul Halpern; Gavin Francis

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson; Julian Bond (Foreword by)

Encyclopedia of Mental Health by Howard S. Friedman (Editor-In-Chief)

The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones

Everyday Hinduism by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: Fifteen Contentious Questions by Benjamin K. Sovacool; Marilyn A. Brown; Scott V. Valentine

Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students by Chester E. Finn; Brandon L. Wright

Finding Time: The Economics of Work-life Conflict by Heather Boushey

Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical by Sherie M. Randolph

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton

Gender Nonconformity and the Law by Kimberly A. Yuracko

Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor

The Gift by Marcel Mauss; Giovanni da (Editor); Jane I. Guyer (Translator); Maurice Bloch (Foreword by); Jonathan Parry (Foreword by)

The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag

Herpetology by F. Harvey Pough

Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence From the Hunger Games to Campus Rape by Kelly Oliver

Immunity by William E. Paul

Isis: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges

Jellyfish: A Natural History by Lisa-ann Gershwin

Juvenile Offenders and Guns: Voices Behind Gun Violence by Diane Marano

Kosher USA: : How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food by Roger Horowitz

Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy by Courtney Jung

The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin by David Satter

The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty by Dan Jones

Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities by Jaclyn Schildkraut; H. Jaymi Elsass

Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit : From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to Rainbow in the Cloud, The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014) by Linda Wagner-Martin

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard

A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story by Tom Gjelten

A Natural History of Wine by Ian Tattersall; Rob DeSalle; Patricia J. Wynne

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman; Oliver Sacks (Foreword by)

North from Mexico: The Spanish-speaking People of the United States by Nancy McWilliams; Alma M. García; G. Paul Meier; Carey McWilliams; Matt S. Meier

On Inequality by Harry G. Frankfurt

Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants by Peter D. Kramer

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez

Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society by Earl Lewis; Nancy Cantor

The Oxford Handbook of the U. S. Constitution by Mark Tushnet (Editor); Mark A. Graber (Editor); Sanford Levinson (Editor)

Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand

A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer

Political Freud: A History by Eli Zaretsky

Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing by Samantha Lavender; Andrew Lavender

A Prison Called School: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners by Maure Ann Metzger

The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools? by Dale Russakoff

Raising the Floor: How A Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream by Andy Stern; Lee Kravitz (As told to)

The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins by David R. Begun

Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things by M. R. O'Connor

The Right to Be Loved by S. Matthew Liao

Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821–1921 by Karine V. Walther

Seahorses: A Life-size Guide to Every Species by Sara A. Lourie

Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe by Anna Frebel

Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women's Sports by Lindsay Pieper

Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landsapes of the Working Poor by Lisa Goff

The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World by Daniel Chirot; Scott L. Montgomery

The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior by Shlomo Benartzi; Jonah Lehrer (Contribution by); Rob Shapiro (Read by)

The Solar System in Close-Up by John Wilkinson

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation by Timothy J. Jorgensen

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind by David J. Helfand

The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East by Kishwar Rizvi

Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages by Alice Beck Kehoe

Trigonometry: A Clever Study Guide by James Tanton

The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army by Colin G. Calloway

Vision: How It Works and What Can Go Wrong by John E. Dowling; Joseph L. Dowling

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane

Water Rights and the Environment in the United States: A Documentary and Reference Guide by John R. Burch

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War by Douglas Bradley; Craig Werner

Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting To Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You by Rob DeSalle; Susan L. Perkins; Patricia J. Wynne (Illustrator)

What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed

Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U. S. Immigration Custody by Susan J. Terrio

Why Don't Americans Vote?: Causes and Consequences by Bridgett A. King (Editor); Kathleen Hale (Editor)

Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks by Simone M. Müller

Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era by Danny Hayes; Jennifer L. Lawless

The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society by Ann Larabee