The Top 20 books of 2015 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Goodbye Stranger

by Rebecca Stead

Hardcover: Aug 2015 | Paperback: May 2017

Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel

This brilliant novel by Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead explores multiple perspectives on the bonds and limits of friendship.

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

Hardcover: Feb 2015 | Paperback: Apr 2017

Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Fiction Award

Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with great monstrosities, but also great humanity and strength, a novel that will have readers talking long after they turn the ...

The Tightrope Walkers

by David Almond

Hardcover: Mar 2015 | Paperback: Nov 2016

In a raw and beautifully crafted bildungsroman, David Almond reveals the rich inner world of a boy teetering on the edge of manhood.

The Nature of the Beast

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #11

by Louise Penny

Hardcover: Aug 2015 | Paperback: Jul 2016

A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back...

Our Souls at Night

by Kent Haruf

Hardcover: May 2015 | Paperback: Jun 2016

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.

Bull Mountain

by Brian Panowich

Hardcover: Jul 2015 | Paperback: Jun 2016

Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Debut Author Award

From a remarkable new voice in Southern fiction, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.

The Marriage of Opposites

by Alice Hoffman

Hardcover: Aug 2015 | Paperback: Jun 2016

A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas, about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro - the Father of Impressionism.

Circling the Sun

A Novel

by Paula McLain

Hardcover: Jul 2015 | Paperback: May 2016

The extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.

Did You Ever Have A Family

by Bill Clegg

Hardcover: Sep 2015 | Paperback: May 2016

The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.

Girl Waits with Gun

by Amy Stewart

Hardcover: Sep 2015 | Paperback: May 2016

An enthralling novel based on the forgotten true adventures of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs.

When the Moon Is Low

A Novel

by Nadia Hashimi

Hardcover: Jul 2015 | Paperback: Apr 2016

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban ...

Lusitania

Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age

by Greg King, Penny Wilson

Hardcover: Feb 2015 | Paperback: Apr 2016

On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I.