My favourites for 2016 were:
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - Andrea Wulf
Babette's Feast - Isak Dinesen
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
The Reawakening by Primo Levi
The German War: A Nation Under Arms - Nicholas Stargardt
Ravens in Winter - Bernd Heinrich
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family - Richard Benson
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America - T.J. Stiles
Into the Blizzard - Michael Winter
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
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