Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year2015

Given by Kirkus Reviews

182 Works 146,350 Books 7,204 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, American History (20), Arts & Culture Books (15), Arts & Entertainment (13), Best Books for Informed Americans Selection (1), Best Mysteries and Thrillers (23), Big-Picture History Books (12), Biographies (111), Black Life in America (21), Book Club Fiction (33), Book Club Nonfiction (7), Books About Artists of All Kinds (5), Books About Being Black in America (15), Books About Black Life in America (18), Books About Love and Loss (5), Books To Stir Heated Debate (7), Books for Foodies (12), Books for Progressives (4), Books of Note by Literary Lions (10), Books to Fight Misogyny and Sexism (6), Books to Fight Racism and Xenophobia (6), Children's Book (6), Collections (7), Comic Novels (5), Crime and (In)Justice (8), Culture Books (8), Current Affairs (36), Current Affairs & Social Sciences (21), Debut (24), Debut Fiction (107), Difficult but Necessary Reads (7), Environmental (7), Environmental Fiction (5), Essay (7), Essays & Entertainment (9), Feel-Good Reads (7), Fiction (14), Fiction About Love and Family (5), Fiction About Love and Sex (5), Fiction Debut (1), Fiction Get Your Book Club Talking (1), Fiction Writers to Discover (17), Fiction for Armchair Travel (4), Fiction for Quarantine Reading (7), Fiction in Translation (48), Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking (58), Fiction: The Top 25 (66), Fictional Families (27), Fictional Voices (17), General Fiction (34), Health and Popular Science (8), Heartrending Nonfiction (1), Historical Excavation (9), Historical Fiction (98), Historical Fiction, 2019, Historical Fiction, 2019 (1), Historical Novels (5), History (75), History Books (11), Indie (1), Indie Memoirs (7), Indie Mysteries and Thrillers (1), Kirkus & Rolling Stone's Best Music Books (21), Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (1), Literary Fiction (37), Memoirs (118), Memorable Characters (5), Memorable Fictional Families (10), Middle Grade (1), Multicultural (8), Mysteries (12), Mysteries & Thrillers (105), Mysteries and Thrillers (18), Mystery (31), Nature & Environment (18), Nature and Travel (12), Nature, Travel, and Sports Books (8), Nonfiction (342), Nonfiction - Shocking Tales of Injustice (6), Nonfiction Books to Navigate American Politics (6), Nonfiction Collections (7), Nonfiction for Lovers of the Literary Arts (7), Nonfiction with Truly Inspirational Characters (3), Nonfiction: The Top 25 (25), Novels To Get Your Book Club Talking (9), Page-Turners (10), Politics (14), Pop Culture and Entertainment (7), Popular Fiction (15), Popular Science Books (9), Reported (8), Romance (54), Science Books (7), Science Fiction and Fantasy (135), Science and Medicine (10), Science and Nature (29), Science and Technology (18), Short Fiction (62), Short Story Collections (15), Social & Cultural Studies Books (11), Socioeconomic Books (4), Sports and Entertainment (7), Story Collections (22), Teen (2), Thrillers (27), Tracking Autocracy and White Supremacy (4), Translation (9), Up-to-the-Minute Fiction (7), Urgent Books of Current Affairs (8), World History (15), Writers to Discover (8), Young Adult (1), Zombie and Vampire (6), No Category (32)
Years:
All, 2023 (198), 2022 (190), 2021 (194), 2020 (213), 2019 (186), 2018 (182), 2017 (18), 2016 (190), 2015 (182), 2014 (176), 2013 (202), 2012 (201), 2011 (154), 2010 (193), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2)
WorkCategoryYear
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Debut Fiction2015
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Debut Fiction2015
Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny
Debut Fiction2015
Minnow by James E. McTeer II
Debut Fiction2015
The Scamp: A Novel by Jennifer Pashley
Debut Fiction2015
Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Debut Fiction2015
Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott
Fiction2015
The Prize: A Novel by Jill Bialosky
Fiction2015
Act of God: A Novel by Jill Ciment
Fiction2015
My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction in Translation2015
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Fiction in Translation2015
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
Fiction in Translation2015
I Refuse by Per Petterson
Fiction in Translation2015
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
The Rocks by Peter Nichols
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking2015
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Historical Fiction2015
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
Historical Fiction2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Historical Fiction2015
The Given World: A Novel by Marian Palaia
Historical Fiction2015
The Pinch: A Novel by Steve Stern
Historical Fiction2015
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Historical Fiction2015
The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann
Historical Fiction2015
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
Literary Fiction2015
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
Literary Fiction2015
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Literary Fiction2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
Literary Fiction2015
The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four by Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Literary Fiction2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Literary Fiction2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Literary Fiction2015
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Literary Fiction2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Literary Fiction2015
Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Spy Games by Adam Brookes
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
The Stranger by Harlan Coben
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
A Song of Shadows by John Connolly
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
X by Sue Grafton
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
A Different Lie: A Novel by Derek Haas
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Last Ragged Breath by Julia Keller
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Hush Hush by Laura Lippman
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Crucifixion Creek by Barry Maitland
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Taking Pity by David Mark
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
The Blondes: A Novel by Emily Schultz
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
A Kind of Grief by A. D. Scott
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Crush by Phoef Sutton
Mysteries and Thrillers2015
Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel
Nonfiction2015
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
Nonfiction2015
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
Nonfiction2015
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
Nonfiction2015
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
Nonfiction2015
Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word by Matthew Battles
Nonfiction2015
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Nonfiction2015
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor
Nonfiction2015
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Nonfiction2015
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont
Nonfiction2015
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
Nonfiction2015
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom
Nonfiction2015
Reagan: The Life by H. W. Brands
Nonfiction2015
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
Nonfiction2015
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Nonfiction2015
1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar by Eric Burns
Nonfiction2015
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
Nonfiction2015
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
Nonfiction2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction2015
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family by Roger Cohen
Nonfiction2015
All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found by Philip Connors
Nonfiction2015
Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo by David Crane
Nonfiction2015
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake by Leo Damrosch
Nonfiction2015
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
Nonfiction2015
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Nonfiction2015
How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century by Bella DePaulo
Nonfiction2015
The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable and How We Can Get There by Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.
Nonfiction2015
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund De Waal
Nonfiction2015
Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South by Christopher Dickey
Nonfiction2015
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing by Joe Domanick
Nonfiction2015
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Dreger
Nonfiction2015
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
Nonfiction2015
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
Nonfiction2015
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History by Brian M. Fagan
Nonfiction2015
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It by John Ferling
Nonfiction2015
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
Nonfiction2015
The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation by Thomas Fleming
Nonfiction2015
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth by Rita Gabis
Nonfiction2015
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
Nonfiction2015
Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 by Robert Goodwin
Nonfiction2015
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick
Nonfiction2015
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
Nonfiction2015
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
Nonfiction2015
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex by Michael Hiltzik
Nonfiction2015
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman
Nonfiction2015
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
Nonfiction2015
Empire of fear by Andrew Hosken
Nonfiction2015
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson
Nonfiction2015
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Nonfiction2015
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits
Nonfiction2015
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
Nonfiction2015
The World's Largest Man: A Memoir by Harrison Scott Key
Nonfiction2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Nonfiction2015
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader
Nonfiction2015
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Nonfiction2015
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen
Nonfiction2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Nonfiction2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Nonfiction2015
Lord Fear: A Memoir by Lucas Mann
Nonfiction2015
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
Nonfiction2015
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr
Nonfiction2015
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran
Nonfiction2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Nonfiction2015
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
Nonfiction2015
Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism by John Norris
Nonfiction2015
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Nonfiction2015
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
Nonfiction2015
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti
Nonfiction2015
Barefoot to Avalon by David Payne
Nonfiction2015
Worlds Apart: A Memoir by David Plante
Nonfiction2015
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
Nonfiction2015
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900) by Patrick Rael
Nonfiction2015
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
Nonfiction2015
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
Nonfiction2015
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul by Mark Ribowsky
Nonfiction2015
Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin
Nonfiction2015
The Age of Sustainable Development by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Nonfiction2015
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina
Nonfiction2015
The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma by Delphine Schrank
Nonfiction2015
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott
Nonfiction2015
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull
Nonfiction2015
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook
Nonfiction2015
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane
Nonfiction2015
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith
Nonfiction2015
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard
Nonfiction2015
A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents by Matthew Spender
Nonfiction2015
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Nonfiction2015
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed
Nonfiction2015
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
Nonfiction2015
The World Is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse by Joni Tevis
Nonfiction2015
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Nonfiction2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3 by Mark Twain
Nonfiction2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
Nonfiction2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
Nonfiction2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
Nonfiction2015
Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War by Joseph Wheelan
Nonfiction2015
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester
Nonfiction2015
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik
Nonfiction2015
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Nonfiction2015
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
Nonfiction2015
Dietland by Sarai Walker
Popular Fiction2015
My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
Popular Fiction2015
Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
Popular Fiction2015
Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Lightless by C. A. Higgins
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Chasing the Phoenix: A Science Fiction Novel by Michael Swanwick
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann VanderMeer
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
In Another Country: Selected Stories by David Constantine
Story Collections2015
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
Story Collections2015
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Story Collections2015
Voices in the Night: Stories by Steven Millhauser
Story Collections2015
The Love Object: Stories by Edna O'Brien
Story Collections2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
Story Collections2015
This Angel on My Chest by Leslie Pietrzyk
Story Collections2015
The Water Museum: Stories by Luis Alberto Urrea
Story Collections2015
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
Story Collections2015

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