The Observer Book of the Year2015

Given by The Observer

Other Names: Observer Book of the Year, The Observer's "Books of the Year"
124 Works 143,129 Books 6,983 Reviews ½ 3.8
Categories:
All, Biography (21), Biography and Memoir (10), Crima and thriller (1), Crime (18), Crime and fiction (1), Crime and thriller (15), Fiction (89), History (40), Nature (24), Politics (23), Science (12), Science Fiction & Fantasy (2), Science Fiction and Fantasy (20), Science books (6), Thriller (7), No Category (6)
Years:
All, 2017 (1), 2016 (88), 2015 (124), 2014 (41), 2013 (40), 1978 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Threads: the delicate life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn
Biography and Memoir2015
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir by Michael Bundock
Biography and Memoir2015
The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Biography and Memoir2015
The Seven Good Years: A Memoir by Etgar Keret
Biography and Memoir2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Biography and Memoir2015
Open the Cage, Murphy! by Paul O'Grady
Biography and Memoir2015
John Aubrey: my own life by Ruth Scurr
Biography and Memoir2015
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
Biography and Memoir2015
Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries by Antony Sher
Biography and Memoir2015
Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Biography and Memoir2015
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
Crima and thriller2015
You Are Dead by Peter James
Crime and fiction2015
The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer
Crime and thriller2015
Make Me by Lee Child
Crime and thriller2015
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
Crime and thriller2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Crime and thriller2015
Dead Joker by Anne Holt
Crime and thriller2015
Disclaimer by Renee Knight
Crime and thriller2015
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
Crime and thriller2015
Hush Hush by Laura Lippman
Crime and thriller2015
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
Crime and thriller2015
The Mulberry Bush by Charles McCarry
Crime and thriller2015
Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
Crime and thriller2015
Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo
Crime and thriller2015
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
Crime and thriller2015
I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers
Crime and thriller2015
The Cartel by Don Winslow
Crime and thriller2015
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Fiction2015
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Fiction2015
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Fiction2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
Fiction2015
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
Fiction2015
Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
Fiction2015
The Green Road by Anne Enright
Fiction2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Fiction2015
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Fiction2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
Fiction2015
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
Fiction2015
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Fiction2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Fiction2015
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong
Fiction2015
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Fiction2015
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Fiction2015
My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction2015
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Fiction2015
The Crossing by Andrew Miller
Fiction2015
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
Fiction2015
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2015
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Fiction2015
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
Fiction2015
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
Fiction2015
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
Fiction2015
Quicksand by Steve Toltz
Fiction2015
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction2015
Mislaid by Nell Zink
Fiction2015
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
Fiction2015
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher
History2015
Magna Carta (Penguin Classics) by David Carpenter
History2015
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory by Brian Cathcart
History2015
Agincourt (Great Battles) by Anne Curry
History2015
The Battle of Agincourt by Anne Curry
History2015
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon
History2015
India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War by Yasmin Khan
History2015
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 by Ivan Maisky
History2015
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm
History2015
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount
History2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
History2015
The Shark and the Albatross: A Wildlife Filmmaker Reveals Why Nature Matters to Us All by John Aitchison
Nature2015
Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands by Mark Avery
Nature2015
Collecting the New Naturalists (Collins New Naturalist Library) by Tim Bernhard
Nature2015
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature by Nicholas B. Davies
Nature2015
Few and far between: on the trail of Britain's rarest animals by Charlie Elder
Nature2015
Field Notes from the Edge by Paul Evans
Nature2015
House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home (Bloomsbury Nature Writing) by Richard Jones
Nature2015
What Nature Does For Britain by Tony Juniper
Nature2015
Yorkshire Dales by John Lee
Nature2015
Tales from Concrete Jungles: Urban birding around the world by David Lindo
Nature2015
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey
Nature2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Nature2015
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
Nature2015
Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies by Peter Marren
Nature2015
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy
Nature2015
Lakes, Loughs and Lochs by Brian Moss
Nature2015
Herring Tales: How the silver darlings shaped human taste and history by Donald S. Murray
Nature2015
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury
Nature2015
In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-year Affair by Matthew Oates
Nature2015
Bill Oddie Unplucked by Bill Oddie
Nature2015
Undiscovered Owls: A Sound Approach Guide by Magnus Robb
Nature2015
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales
Nature2015
Sixty degrees north: around the world in search of home by Malachy Tallack
Nature2015
Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Monotremes and Marusupials: 5 by Don E. Wilson
Nature2015
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
Politics2015
Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron by Michael Ashcroft
Politics2015
Following Farage: On the Trail of the People's Army by Owen Bennett
Politics2015
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Politics2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Politics2015
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
Politics2015
Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference by David Halpern
Politics2015
Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques
Politics2015
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marçal
Politics2015
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow by Charles Moore
Politics2015
Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance Left a Kingdom United but a Country Divided by Joe Pike
Politics2015
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
Politics2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Politics2015
Cameron at 10: The Inside Story 2010-2015 by Anthony Seldon
Politics2015
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers by Gillian Tett
Politics2015
Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore by Patrick Barkham
Science books2015
Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
Science books2015
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
Science books2015
Adventures in human being by Gavin Francis
Science books2015
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
Science books2015
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
Science books2015
Clade by James Bradley
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind by Anne Charnock
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Slade House by David Mitchell
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction and Fantasy2015

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