Favorite Books of 2016?

There are so many threads, and I've had less time than usual to keep up with them this year--as I imagine has been the case for many of us!--so I thought a wrap-up thread where we could mention our favorites of the year might be in order...? Any recommendations?

I'll start by saying I read three four outstanding novels this year (full reviews written by all):

--Robot in the Garden (a sweet, wonderful drama about a man who finds a robot in his garden and then goes on a private quest, for lack of knowing what else to do with his life),
--Snow Child (a grown-up fairy tale about a pioneering couple who wish for a child),
--Alas, Babylon (a post-bomb tale that may be the most realistic and powerful post-apocalyptic novel I've come across, perhaps just short of the very different The Road),
and...
Anil's Ghost (a story of a woman searching for her identity in a war-torn country)

I'm not sure there's a nonfiction piece I'd so easily recommend, but I'll think on it.

What about everyone else???

I couldn't narrow my list down so
Fiction (and in no particular order)

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron
Slade House by David Mitchell
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Outline by Rachel Cusk
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Epitaph a Story of The O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Nutshell by Ian McEwan

Non Fiction

Just Send Me Word A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
Stalin's Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Nixon In China-The Week that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

>2 torontoc:, I have Slade House and Commonwealth both on my TBR--I'll have have to prioritize them in 2017!

I have not had a great reading year, but 4 that earned 5 stars were:

Fiction:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - a little bit science fiction, a little bit philosophy, all kinds of wonderful
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse - I want to move in to this bookstore. I want this world to be real.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - A fantastic retelling of the old story, as well as a beautiful love story
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin - I'm about to embark on an Inspector Rebus binge in 2017.

Nonfiction:
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson - her essays are as good as her fiction
A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre - I want to be a spy when I grow up