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16 best books from 2015
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Summarized in just one sentence each
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A Little Life
by Hanya YanagiharaA coming-of-age story of four friends who recently graduated from college and live in New York City. They're caught in a complicated web of rapes, drugs, and self destructions
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Purity
by Jonathan FramzenA young woman with a ton of student debt sets out to find herself, squatting with anarchists in Oakland, California and searching for her unknown birth story.
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren GroffA thrilling story of a young couple who go through a decade of marriage and discover that the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.
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The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena FerranteTwo women, one bookish and one wild, fought to escape the prison-like neighborhood they grew up in and remained best friends.
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The Nightingale
by Kristin HannahA story about two sisters separated in France during the Nazi invasion, and how each makes impossible choices to keep their loved ones alive.
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The Book of Aron
by Jim ShepardA group of children refuse to submit to the Nazi imprisonment during WWII, and organize an extensive system to smuggle contrabands through ghetto walls.
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The Sellout
by Paul BeattyA satirical novel about a young man attempting to reinstate slavery and segregation in California, only to have his plan challenged in The Supreme Court
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A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia BerlinA series of short stories told from the first-person point of view of of cleaning ladies. They take you from houses of the American Southwest to homes of the Bay Area upper class.
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Go Set a Watchman
by Harper LeeA sequel to the classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout returns home from New York City to visit her dad and learns the disturbing truths about her childhood.
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Girl at War
by Sara NovicA young girl is caught in a brutal civil war in Yugoslavia. Even after fleeing to the U.S. and attending a college in Manhattan, she can't escape the traumatic childhood memories.
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Best Boy
by Eli GottliebA autistic boy recounts his story of attempting to escape the "therapeutic community" and returning home, a place that he only remembers in his dreams.
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City on Fire
by Garth Risk HallbergSet in New York City, detectives try to piece together a complicated web of relationships among unrelated people and an unsolved murder.
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi CoatesWritten as letters to his son, Coates explains the feelings and realities of being black in the United States.
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H Is for Hawk Hardcover
by Helen MacdonaldAuthor's wrenching and humorous account of purchasing and raising a hawk as a way to cope with grief after her father dies.
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The Invention of Nature
by Andrea WulfThe forgotten story of Alexander von Humboldt, a pioneer naturalist who changed the way we approach modern environmentalism
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
by Sally MannA graphical memory of author's dark childhoodl – "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land"
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