Hudson Booksellers has released its list of the best books published in 2015.
As in years past, the titles were selected from a nominated shortlist and voting process by a panel of Hudson’s booksellers. Titles were chosen based on aspects including literary style and innovation, entertainment value, readability, timeliness, and treatment of subjects and themes.
The most votes went to “Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America” by Jill Leovy, and it was awarded Book of the Year.
The other titles that made the list include, in alphabetical order:
Best Fiction: “A God in Ruins,” Kate Atkinson; “Undermajordomo Minor,” Patrick DeWitt; “The Last American Vampire,” Seth Grahame-Smith; “The Making of Zombie Wars,” Aleksandar Hemon; “The Tusk That Did the Damage,” Tania James; “Adult Onset,” Ann-Marie MacDonald; “Slade House,” David Mitchell; “Seveneves,” Neil Stephenson; “The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty,” Vendela Vida; “A Little Life,” Hanya Yanagihara
Best Nonfiction: “Modern Romance,” Aziz Ansari; “Sick in the Head,” Judd Apatow; “Spinster,” Kate Bolick; “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates; “George the Dog, John the Artist,” John Dolan; “Barbarian Days,” William Finnegan; “A Kim Jong-Il Production,” Paul Fischer; “Ghettoside,” Jill Leovy; “Hold Still,” Sally Mann; “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” Jon Ronson
Best Business Interest: “Triggers,” Marshall Goldsmith; “Machines of Loving Grace,”John Markoff; “Superforecasting,” Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner; “Misbehaving,” Richard H. Thaler; “Elon Musk,” Ashlee Vance
Best Young Readers:
Picture Books:
“The Day the Crayons Came Home,” Drew Daywalt; “Wolfie the Bunny,” Ame Dyckman; “Home,” Carson Ellis; “Waiting,” Kevin Henkes; “I Don’t Want to Be a Frog,” Dev Petty
Middle Reader:
“Crenshaw,” Katherine Applegate; “Circus Mirandus,” Cassie Beasley; “The Thing about Jellyfish,” Ali Benjamin; “The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate,” Jacqueline Kelly; “The Nest,” Kenneth Oppel; “The Marvels,” Brian Selznick; “Goodbye Stranger,” Rebecca Stead
Young Adult:
“The Wrath and the Dawn,” Renee Ahdieh; “Mosquitoland,” David Arnold; “Red Queen,” Victoria Aveyard; “The Accident Season,” Moira Fowley-Doyle; “The Hired Girl,” Laura Amy Schlitz; “Orbiting Jupiter,” Gary D. Schmidt; “An Ember in the Ashes,” Sabaa Tahir; “Everything, Everything,” Nicola Yoon
