The Best Books of 2015
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I hope everyone's 2015 ended with some great reading, family, friends, and fantastic food.
Of those I read in the year 2015 -- those published in 2015 and before -- these are the best in these categories:
Best Series:
Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue)
Best Children's Book: (TIE)
I Want to Eat Your Books by Karin Lefranc, illustrated by Tyler Parker
Firefly July by Paul Janeczko
Best Memoir:
Displacement by Lucy Knisley
Best Nonfiction:
LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair by Beth Kephart
Best Short Story Collection:
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War
Best Young Adult Fiction:
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Best Reference:
How to Entertain, Distract, and Unplug Your Kids by Matthew Jervis
Best Women's Fiction:
French Coast by Anita Hughes
Best Historical Fiction: (TIE)
Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor
The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck
Best Fiction:
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
Best Poetry: (TIE)
Wet Silence by Sweta Vikram
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Here is the list of BEST BOOKS PUBLISHED in 2015:
Wet Silence by Sweta Vikram
The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
Vessel by Parneshia Jones
LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair by Beth Kephart
The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck
The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy
Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor
One Thing Stolen by Beth Kephart
The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
The Sound of Glass by Karen White
Mistaking Her Character by Maria Grace
Earth Joy Writing by Cassie Premo Steele, PhD
What were your favorites in 2015?