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Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2015, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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A Bird In The Hand: Chicken Recipes For Every Day And Every Mood by Diana Henry appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Many voices orbit the 1976 attack on Bob Marley and its aftermath in Jamaica and America. Gang members, intelligence operatives, journalists, and ghosts tell overlapping versions of violence and survival.
A God In Ruins: A Novel by Kate Atkinson appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, family matters, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Head Full Of Ghosts: A Novel by Paul Tremblay appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, the dark side, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A History Of Money: A Novel by Alan Pauls, translated by Ellie Robins appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, historical fiction, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story Of A Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, And A Young Dictator's Rise To Power by Paul Fischer appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, rather long, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Manual For Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Planet For Rent by Yoss, translated by David Frye appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, tales from around the world, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Spool Of Blue Thread: A Novel by Anne Tyler appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Strangeness In My Mind: A Novel by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, historical fiction, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Tour Of Bones: Facing Fear And Looking For Life by Denise Inge appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, book club ideas, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, short stories, essays & poetry, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Accidental Saints: Finding God In All The Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
After Birth by Elisa Albert appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
After The Parade: A Novel by Lori Ostlund appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, family matters, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Against The Country: A Novel by Ben Metcalf appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, fiction, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, family matters, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blind French teenager Marie-Laure and German radio prodigy Werner converge in occupied Saint-Malo. Their stories are linked by broadcasting, resistance, and a sought-after jewel.
All The Old Knives: A Novel by Olen Steinhauer appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales by Tom Williams appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014 by Andy Goldsworthy appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
At Home With Umami: Home-Cooked Recipes Unlocking The Magic Of Super-Savory Deliciousness by Laura Santtini appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Baklava To Tarte Tatin: A World Tour In 110 Dessert Recipes by Bernard Laurance, photographed by Amélie Roche appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Barbara The Slut And Other People by Lauren Holmes appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A father addresses his son about race, bodily vulnerability, history, and life in the United States.
Between You & Me: Confessions Of A Comma Queen by Mary Norris appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, biography & memoir, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Binary Star by Sarah Gerard appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around the dark side, eye-opening reads, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bitch Planet Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, the dark side, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget by Sarah Hepola appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Book Of Numbers: A Novel by Joshua Cohen appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, it’s all geek to me, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, rather long, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A teenager's imagined ocean voyage intertwines with his experience of severe mental illness and hospitalization.
Chinatown Kitchen From Noodles To Nuoc Cham: Delicious Dishes From Southeast Asian Ingredients by Lizzie Mabbott appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Circling The Sun: A Novel by Paula McLain appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, tales from around the world, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
City On Fire: A Novel by Garth Risk Hallberg appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cookie Love: More Than 60 Recipes And Techniques For Turning The Ordinary Into The Extraordinary by Mindy Segal and Kate Leahy appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love To Make (And Eat!) by Deanna F. Cook appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, family matters, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cries for Help, Various: Stories by Padgett Powell appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Death And Mr. Pickwick: A Novel by Stephen Jarvis appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, eye-opening reads, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, the dark side, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Delicious Foods: A Novel by James Hannaham appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, family matters, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Descender Volume 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire, coauthored and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Descent: A Novel by Tim Johnston appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, family matters, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Destiny And Power: The American Odyssey Of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
