Year-End Lists

Shelf Awareness: 2015 Best Books of the Year, where it's posted with a list of children's and YA books

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

Fiction

• American Blood
  Ben Sanders
• Carter & Lovecraft
  Jonathan L. Howard
• Circling the Sun
  Paula McLain
• Hausfrau
  Jill Alexander Essbaum
• In a Dark, Dark Wood
  Ruth Ware
• The Incarnations
  Susan Barker
• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara
• The Sellout
  Paul Beatty
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

  The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
  Sydney Padua
• Under the Udala Trees
  Chinelo Okparanta

Nonfiction

• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Drinking in America

  Our Secret History
  Susan Cheever
• H Is for Hawk
  Helen Macdonald
• The Light of the World

  A Memoir
  Elizabeth Alexander
• Midnight's Furies

  The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
  Nisid Hajari
• Missoula

  Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
  Jon Krakauer
• The Soul of an Octopus

  A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
  Sy Montgomery
• This Old Man

  All in Pieces
  Roger Angell
• Thunder & Lightning

  Weather Past, Present, Future
  Lauren Redniss
• Wanted
  Chris Hoke