The best books of 2015

From the New York Times, Goodreads, Brain Pickings and more. Browse the lists.

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Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Gillian O’Brien
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Sentenced to Life
Clive James
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All Involved
Ryan Gattis
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Alive, Alive Oh!
Diana Athill
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
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Five Quarters
Rachel Roddy
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Mountain Shadow
Richard Beswick
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Tom Holland
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte
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Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe’s Destiny
Tim Clayton
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The Past
Tessa Hadley
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Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Sarah Manguso
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Felicity
Mary Oliver
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
Sydney Padua
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Rising Strong
Brené Brown
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Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings
Matthew Burgess
Kris Di Giacomo
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Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
Max Porter
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Lisa Randall
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
Meghan Daum
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Hurry Up and Wait
Maira Kalman
Daniel Handler
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