Poetry

Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitudes by Ross Gay
Criticism
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Autobiography

Negroland by Margo Jefferson
Biography

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Nonfiction
Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
Fiction
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The John Leonard Prize
Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Carlos Lozada
The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Wendell Berry




Now I have enough books to read for 2016.