Our 2016 Book Preview: 101 Books to Read this Year

Femme Couchée LisantPablo Picasso, 1960
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Hello! And welcome to this shit-ton of books.JANUARY
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela (Grove)A university lecturer of Russian and Sudanese parentage struggles to find a place in contemporary Scotland and a foothold in her research of 19th century Dagestan. This novel got rave reviews in the U.K.
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli (Houghton Harcourt)