15 best nonfiction books of 2016

13. 'Blood in the Water,' by Heather Ann Thompson

(Pantheon, 752 pp.)
Michigan professor Heather Ann Thompson relies on exhaustive research, completely upending understanding of the 1971 Attica prison uprising and the brutal retaking of the facility. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Blood in the Water" here.

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