New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,391 ratings
2.
A Little Life
A Little Life 4.29 avg rating — 858,923 ratings
3.
The Tsar of Love and Techno
The Tsar of Love and Techno 4.27 avg rating — 18,025 ratings
4.
Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies 3.59 avg rating — 145,772 ratings
5.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 132,986 ratings
6.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,753 ratings
7.
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories 4.19 avg rating — 35,024 ratings
8.
H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,922 ratings
9.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating — 73,389 ratings
10.
The Door
The Door 4.10 avg rating — 33,166 ratings
11.
How to be Both
How to be Both
by: Ali Smith
3.66 avg rating — 26,692 ratings
12.
The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,802 ratings
13.
Purity
Purity 3.64 avg rating — 50,828 ratings
14.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,646 ratings
15.
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4) 4.46 avg rating — 168,884 ratings
16.
Delicious Foods
Delicious Foods 3.81 avg rating — 6,295 ratings
17.
Beauty Is a Wound
Beauty Is a Wound 4.06 avg rating — 17,146 ratings
18.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,891 ratings
19.
The Fishermen
The Fishermen 3.88 avg rating — 21,350 ratings
20.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,487 ratings
21.
The Meursault Investigation
The Meursault Investigation 3.49 avg rating — 9,217 ratings
22.
God Help the Child
God Help the Child 3.78 avg rating — 31,718 ratings
23.
The First Bad Man
The First Bad Man 3.66 avg rating — 34,518 ratings
24.
Fortune Smiles
Fortune Smiles 4.02 avg rating — 11,011 ratings
25.
Outline
Outline 3.67 avg rating — 65,983 ratings
26.
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,214 ratings
27.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 4.27 avg rating — 37,922 ratings
28.
Here
Here 4.19 avg rating — 16,666 ratings
29.
City on Fire
City on Fire 3.39 avg rating — 15,382 ratings
30.
The Incarnations
The Incarnations 3.77 avg rating — 5,700 ratings
31.
Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,832 ratings
32.
Loving Day
Loving Day 3.54 avg rating — 3,959 ratings
33.
Ordinary Light
Ordinary Light 3.94 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
34.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 4.25 avg rating — 41,360 ratings
35.
On the Move: A Life
On the Move: A Life 4.03 avg rating — 21,246 ratings
36.
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America 3.96 avg rating — 8,643 ratings
37.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.36 avg rating — 3,901 ratings
38.
Soumission
Soumission 3.65 avg rating — 50,022 ratings
39.
Thirteen Ways of Looking
Thirteen Ways of Looking 3.95 avg rating — 7,009 ratings
40.
The Story of My Teeth
The Story of My Teeth 3.48 avg rating — 9,508 ratings
41.
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath 4.42 avg rating — 12,700 ratings
42.
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family 4.22 avg rating — 13,073 ratings
43.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,295 ratings
44.
The Folded Clock: A Diary
The Folded Clock: A Diary 3.70 avg rating — 3,781 ratings
45.
The Beautiful Bureaucrat
The Beautiful Bureaucrat 3.23 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
46.
Dragonfish
Dragonfish
by: Vu Tran
3.24 avg rating — 2,438 ratings
47.
My Struggle: Book Four
My Struggle: Book Four 4.22 avg rating — 12,952 ratings
48.
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.97 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
49.
Night at the Fiestas: Stories
Night at the Fiestas: Stories 4.08 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
50.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating — 17,216 ratings
51.
Katrina: After the Flood
Katrina: After the Flood 3.96 avg rating — 891 ratings
52.
Guantánamo Diary
Guantánamo Diary 4.10 avg rating — 5,898 ratings
53.
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
by: Emma Sky
4.08 avg rating — 865 ratings
54.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,164 ratings
55.
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History 3.89 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
56.
Leaving Berlin
Leaving Berlin 3.71 avg rating — 8,707 ratings
57.
Beatlebone
Beatlebone 3.48 avg rating — 3,645 ratings
58.
The Love Object: Selected Stories
The Love Object: Selected Stories 3.84 avg rating — 934 ratings
59.
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America 4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
60.
Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders
Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders 3.65 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
61.
The Truth and Other Lies
The Truth and Other Lies 3.48 avg rating — 6,323 ratings
62.
The Mare
The Mare 3.67 avg rating — 5,102 ratings
63.
Mislaid
Mislaid
by: Nell Zink
3.29 avg rating — 6,734 ratings
64.
The Complete Works of Primo Levi
The Complete Works of Primo Levi 4.60 avg rating — 154 ratings
65.
The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 526 ratings
66.
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne 4.29 avg rating — 649 ratings
67.
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush 4.13 avg rating — 8,550 ratings
68.
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System 3.98 avg rating — 3,054 ratings
68.
The German War: A Nation Under Arms
The German War: A Nation Under Arms 4.34 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
68.
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel 4.33 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
68.
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot 3.95 avg rating — 3,736 ratings
72.
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future 3.79 avg rating — 389 ratings
73.
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back 3.90 avg rating — 2,063 ratings
74.
Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years
Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years 3.62 avg rating — 568 ratings
74.
Modernity Britain, 1957-63
Modernity Britain, 1957-63 4.35 avg rating — 168 ratings
76.
The Edge of the World
The Edge of the World 3.57 avg rating — 2,755 ratings
77.
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle 4.34 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
78.
Honeydew
Honeydew 3.62 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
79.
From the New World: Poems 1976-2012
From the New World: Poems 1976-2012 4.11 avg rating — 140 ratings
80.
S O S: Poems, 1961-2013
S O S: Poems, 1961-2013 4.24 avg rating — 220 ratings
81.
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories 4.14 avg rating — 1,738 ratings
82.
Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
Augustine: Conversions to Confessions 3.80 avg rating — 257 ratings
83.
The Fly Trap
The Fly Trap 3.63 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
84.
Vanessa and Her Sister
Vanessa and Her Sister 3.77 avg rating — 6,179 ratings
85.
Loitering: New & Collected Essays
Loitering: New & Collected Essays 4.02 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
86.
Jonas Salk: A Life
Jonas Salk: A Life 4.14 avg rating — 273 ratings
87.
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone 4.08 avg rating — 596 ratings
88.
The Whites
The Whites 3.64 avg rating — 10,855 ratings
89.
The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools? 3.95 avg rating — 2,315 ratings
89.
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World 4.07 avg rating — 179 ratings
91.
Letters to Vera
Letters to Vera really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
92.
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help 3.91 avg rating — 2,864 ratings
93.
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own 3.46 avg rating — 9,417 ratings
94.
Witches of America
Witches of America
by: Alex Mar
3.25 avg rating — 2,356 ratings
95.
The Hollow Land
The Hollow Land 3.94 avg rating — 922 ratings
96.
Man at the Helm
Man at the Helm 3.65 avg rating — 5,220 ratings
97.
Preparation for the Next Life
Preparation for the Next Life 3.77 avg rating — 4,409 ratings
98.
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi 4.06 avg rating — 224 ratings
99.
The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game 3.71 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
100.
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 7,579 ratings