Top Ten Books "of the Year"... and more!

 The Top Ten Books of 2016 are:

 1. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope

2. The School of Public Life, by Fred Dewey

3. Night Open, by Rolf Jacobsen

4. Third Factory, by Viktor Shklovsky

5. The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, by Frances Wilson

6. Paris Stories, by Mavis Gallant

7. Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems, by Tom Hennen

8. Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck

9. Pensieri, Giacomo Leopardi, trans. by W.S. Di Piero

10. The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron

Honorable Mention: Collected Poems, by Rainer Brambach; A History of Bombing, by Sven Lindqvist; Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde, by Charles Juliet; Telegrams of the Soul, Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg, by Peter Altenberg; Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen; Eight Men Out, by Eliot Asinof; The Nature of Alexander, by Mary Renault; Guston in Time, by Ross Feld.

Best Books I Tried to Read but Couldn't Quite Finish: A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne; The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch; The Relentless Revolution, A History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby; The Sleep Garden, by Jim Krusoe; Sculpture in the Age of Doubt, by Thomas McEvilley.