Boston Globe's Best Books of 2016

One of These Things First

The Little Edges

Rain Dogs (Sean Duffy Series #5)

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

LaRose

Real Tigers

The Story of a Brief Marriage

Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

In the Café of Lost Youth

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

The Darkest Secret: A Novel

South Village (Ash McKenna Series #3)

The Little Edges

Barkskins

Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015

Barkskins

Even Dogs in the Wild (Inspector John Rebus Series #20)

Night

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Olio

Wilde Lake