- Matt Holzman's Top 5 MoviesRead Review
- 1. Jackie
- 2. Moonlight
- 3. American Honey
- 4. Manchester by the Sea
- 5. Cameraperson
- Good Food's Best Dishes of 2016Read Review
- 1. Evan Kleiman, Host: Coconut Dark Chocolate Rocks at Lukshon, Culver City
- 2. Laryl Garcia, Segment Producer: Jerusalem Mixed Grill at Shaya, New Orleans
- 3. Ronny Mikkelsen, Sound Engineer: Tacos at Hija de Sanchez, Copenhagan
- 4. Abbie Fentress Swanson, Supervising Producer: Pork Tonkatsu at Hasegawa, Tokyo
- 5. Camellia Tse, Digital Producer: Eundaegu Jorim at Sa Rit Gol, Koreatown
- Michael Silverblatt's Top 5 Fiction Books of the YearRead Review
- 1. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (Harper)
- 2. Another Brooklyn by Jacquelyn Woodson (Amistad)
- 3. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Grove)
- 4. Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight by Mitch Sisskind (The Song Cave)
- 5. Float by Anne Carson (Knopf)
- Five books to restore your faith in the human spiritRead Review
- 1. Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai (New Directions)
- 2. Observations by Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 3. The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- 4. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata (FSG Classics)
- 5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- DNA's 6 Most Intriguing Books of 2016Read Review
- 1. Hitler At Home, by Despina Stratigakos
- 2. I Hate The Internet, by Jarett Kobek
- 3. The Wangs Vs The World, by Jade Chang
- 4. Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas that Shaped the World, by Wade Graham
- 5. The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study, by Pierluigi Serraino
- 6. Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, by Lisa Napoli