2016 BOOKS OF THE YEAR FICTION


GREY E L JAMES ARROW


THE BURIED GIANT KAZUO ISHIGURO FABER & FABER


The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a cou-


ple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards—some strange and otherworldly—but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely


moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.


Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty, until the day Ana- stasia Steele falls into his office in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Shy, unworldly Anastasia seems to see right through him: past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart. Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?


GO SET A WATCHMAN HARPER LEE


WILLIAM HEINEMANN


Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some 20 years later. Scout (Jean Lou- ise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father’s attitude toward society and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.


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