San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year2015

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
94 Works 72,779 Books 3,730 Reviews ½ 3.8
Categories:
All, Biography (6), Essay/Criticism (19), Fiction (598), Fiction/Poetry (108), Historical Fiction (3), History (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (16), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (539), Science Fiction (1), Short stories (19), No Category (151)
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (27), 2021 (15), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (97), 2015 (94), 2014 (100), 2013 (100), 2012 (99), 2011 (99), 2010 (99), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (128), 2006 (121), 2005 (128), 2004 (84), 2003 (64)
WorkCategoryYear
Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos
Fiction2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Fiction2015
There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories by Charles Baxter
Fiction2015
The State We're In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie
Fiction2015
The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2015
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction2015
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Fiction2015
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Fiction2015
The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
Fiction2015
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Fiction2015
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
Fiction2015
A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison
Fiction2015
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Fiction2015
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty by Amanda Filipacchi
Fiction2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Fiction2015
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
Fiction2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
Fiction2015
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Fiction2015
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Fiction2015
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Fiction2015
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
Fiction2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2015
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
Fiction2015
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
Fiction2015
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Fiction2015
The Animals: A Novel by Christian Kiefer
Fiction2015
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Fiction2015
My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction2015
Call Me Home: A Novel by Megan Kruse
Fiction2015
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
Fiction2015
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Fiction2015
The Empire of the Senses: A Novel by Alexis Landau
Fiction2015
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Fiction2015
Let Me Explain You by Annie Liontas
Fiction2015
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Fiction2015
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Fiction2015
Finale by Thomas Mallon
Fiction2015
Crow Fair: Stories by Thomas McGuane
Fiction2015
Voices in the Night: Stories by Steven Millhauser
Fiction2015
Slade House by David Mitchell
Fiction2015
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Fiction2015
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Fiction2015
A Master Plan for Rescue: A Novel by Janis Cooke Newman
Fiction2015
Death by Water by Kenzaburō Ōe
Fiction2015
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Fiction2015
The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer
Fiction2015
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
Fiction2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
Fiction2015
Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
Fiction2015
The Whites by Richard Price
Fiction2015
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Fiction2015
Lost Canyon by Nina Revoyr
Fiction2015
Barefoot Dogs: Stories by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
Fiction2015
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2015
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
Fiction2015
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
Fiction2015
Disgruntled by Asali Solomon
Fiction2015
Mendocino Fire: Stories by Elizabeth Tallent
Fiction2015
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
Fiction2015
Dragonfish by Vu Tran
Fiction2015
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
Fiction2015
The Sunken Cathedral by Kate Walbert
Fiction2015
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Fiction2015
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
Fiction2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction2015
Mislaid by Nell Zink
Fiction2015
When the sick rule the world by Dodie Bellamy
Nonfiction2015
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
Nonfiction2015
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn
Nonfiction2015
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello
Nonfiction2015
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
Nonfiction2015
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen
Nonfiction2015
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman by Greg Grandin
Nonfiction2015
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
Nonfiction2015
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
Nonfiction2015
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel
Nonfiction2015
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
Nonfiction2015
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Nonfiction2015
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Nonfiction2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Nonfiction2015
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
Nonfiction2015
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
Nonfiction2015
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves
Nonfiction2015
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
Nonfiction2015
The Other Paris by Lucy Sante
Nonfiction2015
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Nonfiction2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Nonfiction2015
M Train by Patti Smith
Nonfiction2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith
Nonfiction2015
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
Nonfiction2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3 by Mark Twain
Nonfiction2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
Nonfiction2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
Nonfiction2015
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino
Nonfiction2015

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