Local Readers Reveal Most-Loved Books of 2016

Readers at the Spring Lake Public Library have weighed in on the books they loved most in 2016.

According to the list on the library's Facebook page, the genres range from history and biography to satire and dark humor, with a gentle leaning toward literary fiction, historical fiction, and history. What didn't make the list: romance, science fiction and paranormal.

Among the most-loved titles:

Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen)
Girls of Atomic City (Denise Kiernan)
Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
Commonwealth (Ann Patchett)
State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)
Winter of the World, by Ken Follett
Truman, by David McCullough
Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis
New York (Edward Rutherfurd)
A Gentleman in Moscow, by (Amor Towles)
A Thread of Grace (May Doria Russell)
A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
The Illusion of Separateness (Simon Van Booy)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
Notorious RBG (Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik)
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Erik Larson)
Shantarum (Gregory David Roberts)
The Nix (Nathan Hill)
The Kind Worth Killing (Peter Swanson)
Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand)
The Red Kimono (Jan Morrill)
The Revenant (Michael Punke)
Sisi (Allison Pataki)
Tell me that You Love Me, Junie Moon (Marjorie Kellogg)
Discovering the Soul (Robert G. Jarmon)