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Best books of 2016

31 December 2016

  • woman bookshop

    Readers’ books of the year 2016

  • JK Rowling

    Bestselling books 2016: the ghosts of Christmas charts past

11 December 2016

  • OFM books of the year illo

    The 20 best food books of 2016

    Observer Food Monthly’s choice of recipe collections, reference books and all things food-related. Gift wrap them, or keep them for yourself

9 December 2016

  • His Bloody Project, The Sellout, All That Man Is, The Improbability of Love, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, The Return.

    Gifts and misses: publishers pick their books of 2016

    Which books did best? Which should have done better? Which books by their rivals would publishers like to have brought out?

6 December 2016

  • The ruined city of Homs, subject of the the Syrian architect, Marwa al-Sabouni.

    Rowan Moore’s best architecture books of 2016

    Books about building for peace in times of war are among the standout volumes of the last 12 months

5 December 2016

  • A re-creation of a studio used by the artist JMW Turner.

    Peter Conrad’s best art books of 2016

    Studies of the disorderly life and work of Turner, Monet’s watery abstractions and the chaos of the YBAs were illuminating
  • children playing in a british street in 1950

    Robin McKie’s best science books of 2016

    The pick of this year’s science books put our health – and other obsessions – under the microscope
  • The Boss<br>28th July 1992: American musician Bruce Springsteen sits on a trunk with his feet up backstage at the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands sports complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Springsteen wears a casual shirt with faded jeans and a pair of cowboy boots with chains and metal tips. (Photo by Keith Meyers/New York Times Co./Getty Images)

    Tim Adams’s best biographies of 2016

    Beryl Bainbridge, John Le Carré and Bruce Springsteen are among the lives summed up this year

4 December 2016

  • FIRST USE F&amp;M - Kate Tempest in London for Film and Music

    Kate Kellaway’s best poetry books of 2016

    From Denise Riley’s Say Something Back to Katharine Towers’s The Remedies, women’s voices dominate the year in poetry
  • ‘Deserves to win every prize going’: Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railway.

    Alex Preston’s best fiction of 2016

    From Ali to Zadie – and that’s just the Smiths – it’s been a rich year for vivid and visionary novels
  • a scene from one hundred nights of hero by isabel greenberg

    Rachel Cooke’s best graphic books of 2016

    From dazzling biographies to fantastic fantasy and wry observation, the year’s graphic books would make great Christmas presents

3 December 2016

2 December 2016

  • James Brown

    The best music books of 2016

    David Bowie entertains, the Beach Boys give good vibrations, but it’s a life of James Brown that has soul
  • Fairy lights and cable knits … two people hygging.

    The best stocking filler books of 2016

    We leaf through Kama Sutra colouring books, career tips from the SAS and the inevitable volumes on hygge
  • Surfer off west coast of Australia

    The best books on sport of 2016

    A surfer’s prizewinning memoir, an insight into women’s football and a chronicle of horse racing make Huw Richards’ selection
    • Vote: What was your favourite book of the year?

1 December 2016

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