Best Books of 2015 - The Critics' Picks

1.
The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train 3.96 avg rating — 3,203,023 ratings
2.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,442 ratings
3.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,330 ratings
4.
Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)
Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 33,313 ratings
5.
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories 4.19 avg rating — 35,028 ratings
6.
Our Souls at Night
Our Souls at Night 3.92 avg rating — 82,052 ratings
7.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 4.27 avg rating — 37,935 ratings
8.
A Little Life
A Little Life 4.29 avg rating — 859,388 ratings
9.
The Witches: Salem, 1692
The Witches: Salem, 1692 3.25 avg rating — 23,706 ratings
10.
The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,808 ratings
11.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,652 ratings
12.
M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,834 ratings
13.
A Spool of Blue Thread
A Spool of Blue Thread 3.44 avg rating — 99,583 ratings
14.
Mislaid
Mislaid
by: Nell Zink
3.29 avg rating — 6,736 ratings
15.
The Tsar of Love and Techno
The Tsar of Love and Techno 4.27 avg rating — 18,027 ratings
16.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,299 ratings
17.
The Book of Aron
The Book of Aron 3.66 avg rating — 5,118 ratings
18.
In the Unlikely Event
In the Unlikely Event 3.57 avg rating — 71,474 ratings
19.
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2)
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 7,718 ratings
20.
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America 4.15 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
20.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4.06 avg rating — 76,904 ratings
22.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,308 ratings
23.
H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,929 ratings
24.
Outline
Outline 3.67 avg rating — 66,017 ratings
25.
A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)
A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 59,189 ratings
26.
On the Move: A Life
On the Move: A Life 4.03 avg rating — 21,246 ratings
27.
Purity
Purity 3.64 avg rating — 50,833 ratings
28.
Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies 3.59 avg rating — 145,786 ratings
29.
Ordinary Light
Ordinary Light 3.94 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
30.
Get in Trouble
Get in Trouble 3.67 avg rating — 12,778 ratings
31.
City on Fire
City on Fire 3.39 avg rating — 15,382 ratings
32.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating — 73,397 ratings
33.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 133,025 ratings
34.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity 4.29 avg rating — 17,218 ratings
35.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 3.38 avg rating — 13,844 ratings
36.
The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant 3.59 avg rating — 117,664 ratings
37.
Best Boy
Best Boy 3.70 avg rating — 4,783 ratings
38.
Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3)
Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3) 3.80 avg rating — 4,782 ratings
39.
The Meursault Investigation
The Meursault Investigation 3.49 avg rating — 9,221 ratings
39.
The Heart Goes Last
The Heart Goes Last 3.40 avg rating — 74,336 ratings
41.
My Struggle: Book Four
My Struggle: Book Four 4.22 avg rating — 12,954 ratings
42.
Loving Day
Loving Day 3.54 avg rating — 3,959 ratings
43.
Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years
Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years 3.62 avg rating — 568 ratings
44.
Gold Fame Citrus
Gold Fame Citrus 3.30 avg rating — 9,639 ratings
45.
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
46.
Honeydew
Honeydew 3.62 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
47.
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic 4.23 avg rating — 31,642 ratings
48.
Eileen
Eileen 3.56 avg rating — 122,841 ratings
49.
The Fly Trap
The Fly Trap 3.63 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
50.
The State We're In: Maine Stories
The State We're In: Maine Stories 3.04 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
51.
Did You Ever Have a Family
Did You Ever Have a Family 3.79 avg rating — 27,960 ratings
52.
The Water Museum
The Water Museum 4.03 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
53.
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4) 4.46 avg rating — 168,965 ratings
54.
Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,833 ratings
55.
Delicious Foods
Delicious Foods 3.81 avg rating — 6,294 ratings
55.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 4.25 avg rating — 41,371 ratings
57.
The Beautiful Bureaucrat
The Beautiful Bureaucrat 3.23 avg rating — 4,569 ratings
58.
Fortune Smiles
Fortune Smiles 4.02 avg rating — 11,011 ratings
59.
The Incarnations
The Incarnations 3.77 avg rating — 5,700 ratings
60.
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 — 8,551 ratings
61.
The First Bad Man
The First Bad Man 3.66 avg rating — 34,535 ratings
62.
Welcome to Braggsville
Welcome to Braggsville 3.23 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
63.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.36 avg rating — 3,904 ratings
64.
A Strangeness in My Mind
A Strangeness in My Mind 4.15 avg rating — 16,076 ratings
65.
The Secret Chord
The Secret Chord 3.68 avg rating — 21,342 ratings
66.
Undermajordomo Minor
Undermajordomo Minor 3.74 avg rating — 15,909 ratings
67.
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story 3.79 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
68.
The Green Road
The Green Road 3.51 avg rating — 16,295 ratings
69.
Submission
Submission 3.65 avg rating — 50,030 ratings
70.
The Mark and the Void
The Mark and the Void 3.63 avg rating — 2,849 ratings
71.
Beauty Is a Wound
Beauty Is a Wound 4.06 avg rating — 17,155 ratings
72.
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories 4.14 avg rating — 1,738 ratings
73.
God Help the Child
God Help the Child 3.78 avg rating — 31,725 ratings
74.
The Fishermen
The Fishermen 3.88 avg rating — 21,353 ratings
75.
The Whites
The Whites 3.64 avg rating — 10,855 ratings
76.
Thirteen Ways of Looking
Thirteen Ways of Looking 3.95 avg rating — 7,008 ratings
77.
My Documents
My Documents really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,436 ratings
78.
The Light of the World
The Light of the World 4.10 avg rating — 10,143 ratings
79.
The Story of My Teeth
The Story of My Teeth 3.48 avg rating — 9,509 ratings
80.
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
81.
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs 4.07 avg rating — 8,087 ratings
82.
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning 4.29 avg rating — 4,240 ratings
83.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,489 ratings
84.
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers 4.17 avg rating — 96,960 ratings
85.
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine 3.22 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
86.
The Mare
The Mare 3.67 avg rating — 5,102 ratings
87.
Beatlebone
Beatlebone 3.48 avg rating — 3,645 ratings
88.
The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2)
The Cartel (Power of the Dog, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 37,783 ratings
89.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,260 ratings
90.
Leaving Berlin
Leaving Berlin 3.71 avg rating — 8,707 ratings
91.
Man at the Helm
Man at the Helm 3.65 avg rating — 5,223 ratings
92.
The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5)
The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5) 4.38 avg rating — 33,317 ratings
93.
Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees 4.03 avg rating — 14,271 ratings
94.
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot 3.95 avg rating — 3,736 ratings
95.
There's Something I Want You to Do
There's Something I Want You to Do 3.84 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
96.
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
97.
Step Aside, Pops (Hark! A Vagrant, #2)
Step Aside, Pops (Hark! A Vagrant, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 11,574 ratings
98.
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
99.
Speak
Speak 3.58 avg rating — 4,463 ratings
100.
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales 3.64 avg rating — 5,277 ratings