15 best nonfiction books of 2016

4. 'Secondhand Time,' by Svetlana Alexievich

(Random House, 496 pp.)
In a book that makes a major contribution to 20th-century history, Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich records firsthand witnesses to life in the former Soviet Union. You can read the Monitor's full review of "Secondhand Time" here.

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