2015
General Fiction
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Small Indiscretion by Jan Ellison
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Days of Awe by Lauren Fox
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg
Dryland by Sara Jaffe
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Girl at War by Sara Novic
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Golden State by Stephanie Kegan
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Love May Fail by Matthew Quick
My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
Not on Fire, But Burning by Greg Hrbek
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
Panic by Lauren Oliver
Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell
Pretty Ugly by Kirker Butler
Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
The Animals by Christian Kiefer
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer
The Dinner by Herman Koch
The Fall of Princes by Robert Goolrick
The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
The Half Brother by Holly LeCraw
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (re-read)
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Shore by Sara Taylor
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (re-read)
Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
General Nonfiction
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
Historical Fiction
A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott
A Place We Knew Well by Susan Carol McCarthy
Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
City of Liars and Thieves by Eve Karlin
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
West of Sunset by Stewart O’Nan
Memoirs / Personal Essays
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer by Antonia Murphy
Home is Burning by Dan Marshall
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South by Rick Bragg
Yes, Please by Amy Poehler (Audiobook)
Mystery / Thriller
After the Crash by Michel Bussi
Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille
The Bone Tree by Greg Iles
The Bullet by Mary Louise Kelly
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Truth And Other Lies by Sascha Arango
Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight
Nonfiction – Sports
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
The Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway
Short Stories
Beneath the Bonfire by Nickolas Butler
Young Adult Fiction
Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
Boo by Neil Smith
Mosquitoland by David Arnold