The best American nonrequired reading 2016
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
810.8/BEST
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
DESCRIPTION
xv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780544812116, 0544812115, 9780544812116
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
"A Mariner original."
CONTENTS
Grozny tourist bureau /
Anthony Marra -- An oral history of Abdelrahman Al-Ahmar /
Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek -- Jelly and Jack /
Dana Spiotta -- Teflon toxin /
Sharon Lerner -- How I became a prison gardener /
Michele Scott -- Gentlest village /
Jesse Ball -- An interview with President Obama /
Marilynne Robinson -- Buena Vista Park, 2 A.M. /
sam sax -- Miracle years of Little Fork /
Rebecca Makkai -- Death-qualified /
Gary Indiana -- Trip treatment /
Michael Pollan -- Strong city /
Da'Shay Portis -- Sudba I /
Anna Kovatcheva -- Homer Dill's undead /
Inara Verzemnieks -- Reluctant citizens /
Kyle Boelte -- Shadehill /
Mark Hitz -- Dream house /
Ariana Reines -- Killing and dying /
Adrian Tomine -- On this side /
Yuko Sakata -- Lonely death of George Bell /
N. R. Kleinfield -- Death of the sky /
David Wagoner -- Bandit /
Molly Brodak -- Borb /
Jason Little -- Last poem for Oe /
Laurel Hunt -- Things I know to be true /
Kendra Fortmeyer -- Five poems /
Dan Hoy -- Algorithmic problem solving for father-daughter relationships /
Xuan Juliana Wang -- Brown vs. Ferguson /
Endnotes -- Contributors' notes --
Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee --
Notable nonrequired reading of 2015 --
About 826 National --
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