10 books on the New York Times list you should read this month

The New York Times released its 100 Notable Books of 2016 and of course it is packed with really great books.

For those who have no idea what to read, here are titles worth adding to your bookshelf.

1. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Girlhood and the half-life of its memory are the subjects of this intense, moving novel, Woodson’s first for adults (she is a Newbery Honor winner) in years

2. Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo

This sequel to “Nobody’s Fool,” set 10 years later in the same upstate New York town, presents engaging characters and benign humor.

3. Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter

A father and his sons struggle with death in this luminous novel.

4. The Nix by Nathan Hill

In this entertaining debut novel, full of postmodern digressions, a young professor tries to write a biography of his political activist mother.

5. Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Two multiracial girls in North London dream of becoming dancers (one has talent, the other doesn’t) in Smith’s exuberant new novel about friendship, music, race and global politics.

6. The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

A woman tries to remake her life in Africa in Finn’s intricately plotted novel.

7. The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

Mahajan’s smart, devastating novel traces the fallout over time of a terrorist attack at a market in Delhi.

8. Nutshell by Ian McEwan

An unborn baby overhears his mother and her lover plotting to murder his father in McEwan’s compact, captivating novel.

9. Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman

A family from the former Soviet Union embarks on an American road trip in a novel that is a joy to read.

10. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

A brilliant young neurosurgeon reckons with the meaning of life and death when he learns he has advanced lung cancer; a moving and courageous account.

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