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New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year 2015

New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year 2015 names 10 books across 2 categories. 9 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.

Fiction

  1. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlinsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Outline by Rachel Cusksource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Door by Magda Szabó, translated by Len Rixsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Sellout by Paul Beattysource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldsteinsource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coatessource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckertsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonaldsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. One of Us by Åsne Seierstad, translated by Sarah Deathsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulfsource (opens in a new tab)

About the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

nytimes.com blocks automated reads, so counts come from Wayback Machine or archive.nytimes.com copies of each year's page; 2024 and 2025 are counted from Book Riot and Kirkus reports of the NYT list. Titles drop subtitles.

Organization: The New York Times. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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