Books of 2016 Eisenhower in War and Peace Jean Edward Smith Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day Joel Selvin Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders Joshua Foer The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 Sir Max Hastings A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran Shane Bauer Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Adam Hochschild Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe Lisa Randall History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time Brad Meltzer Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza Aslan The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition Richard Rhodes The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III Edward Gibbon Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History Brian Kilmeade Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few Robert B. Reich The Last Jews in Berlin Leonard Gross 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History Jay Winik The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Eric Weiner And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East Richard Engel The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Irin Carmon Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Jane Mayer Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II Mitchell Zuckoff Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab Steve Inskeep Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America Howard Blum The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Erik Larson