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As usual in November, Amazon’s team of book editors releases the list of the current year’s most interesting books.
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The Best Books of 2015 selection includes the Top 100 Books of the Year, top lists in 20 categories, and the Best Debuts of 2015.
This annual Amazon feature is beloved by book lovers as it’s an excellent way to discover new books to gift for Christmas or read during long winter evenings.
Amazon editors have named Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies novel as the Best Book of the Year. Ths story about a marriage is told from two different points of view. It’s “a dazzling examination of a marriage,” and a portrait of creative partnership.
Lauren Groff’s novel is followed by a book about race in America – Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the true story of how a transgendered child began to change the world – Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt.
The top book in romance is J.R. Ward’s The Bourbon Kings. The Best Book of 2015 in Nonfiction is The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck. Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes is named the best book in the young adult category.
The latest book was also picked up as one of the Best Debuts of 2015 and took the 4th place in the Top 100 ranking.
All the books are available in both print and Kindle editions. You can explore the lists separately, and they are in fact the different rankings:
How are the books selected? The members of the Amazon editorial team read hundreds of books a year. They meet every month to pick up the titles for the Best Book of the Month. In October, they review all the monthly lists and look at the upcoming releases. Then, they discuss the favorites, and made a final decision.
We are committed to helping customers find terrific gifts for book lovers and drawing more attention to exceptional authors. Our passion is for uniting readers of all ages and tastes with their next favorite reads.
Later in the post we’ll share the Top 10 titles, and right now you can jump to official selections in the most popular categories:
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Children’s Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Nonfiction
- Romance
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Young Adult
The announcement of the Best Books of 2015 comes associated with fun facts.
As many as 22 debut authors made it to Top 100 list (6 in Top 20). The longest book in the Top 100 is Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire (946 pages). The shortest read is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (176 pages). 8 books in the Top 100 have animals in their titles.
You can explore the Best Books of 2015 on Amazon, and below there are Top 10 titles.
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Amazon Best Books of 2015 – Top 10
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author comes an exhilarating story about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.
At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.
With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity and power that is unlike anything that has come before it.
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Named by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” this book by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history.
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion.
Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Amy Ellis Nutt
From the Pulitzer Prize winner comes the inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s journey to understand the uniqueness in us all.
The book chronicles the story of Jonas and Wyatt, the identical twin boys adopted by Wayne and Kelly Maines.
Amy Ellis Nutt spent almost four years reporting this immersive account of an American family confronting an issue that is at the center of today’s cultural debate.
It’s a story of standing up for your beliefs and yourself—and it will inspire all of us to do the same.
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
The explosive New York Times bestselling debut that has captivated readers worldwide.
Set in a rich, high-fantasy world with echoes of ancient Rome, it tells the story of a slave fighting for her family and a young soldier fighting for his freedom.
In the ashes of a broken world one person can make a difference. One voice in the dark can be heard. The price of freedom is always high and this time that price might demand everything, even life itself.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
It’s 1939. In a small French village, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front.
Soon Germans invade France, and a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home. She and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything.
Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive…
Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with atrocities, but also humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah’s novel will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they finish reading.
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.
Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
When Helen Macdonald’s father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated.
An experienced falconer – Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood – she’d never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own.
Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, with a parallel examination of a legendary writer’s eccentric falconry.
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.
Purity
Jonathan Franzen
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom and The Corrections.
Young Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she’s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother – her only family – is hazardous.
But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life.
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder.
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann
A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.
In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann’s preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.
In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck.
She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life — as she sees it — is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.
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