Year-End Lists

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2015, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates

Finalists

• Whirlwind

  The American Revolution and the War That Won It
  John Ferling
• H Is for Hawk
  Helen Macdonald
• The Deluge

  The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
  Adam Tooze
• Pacific

  Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
  Simon Winchester
• The Invention of Nature

  Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
  Andrea Wulf

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2015, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara

Finalists

• The Incarnations
  Susan Barker
• A Manual for Cleaning Women

  Selected Stories
  Lucia Berlin
• Fates and Furies
  Lauren Groff
• The Story of My Teeth
  Valeria Luiselli
• The Book of Aron
  Jim Shepard

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2015

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• A Brief History of Seven Killings
  Marlon James

Shortlist

• Satin Island
  Tom McCarthy
• The Fishermen
  Chigozie Obioma
• The Year of the Runaways
  Sunjeev Sahota
• A Spool of Blue Thread
  Anne Tyler
• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara

Longlist

• Did You Ever Have a Family
  Bill Clegg
• The Green Road
  Anne Enright
• The Moor's Account
  Laila Lalami
• The Illuminations
  Andrew O'Hagan
• Lila
  Marilynne Robinson
• Sleeping on Jupiter
  Anuradha Roy
• The Chimes
  Anna Smaill

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2015

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• How to Be Both
  Ali Smith

Shortlist

• The Bees
  Laline Paull
• A God in Every Stone
  Kamila Shamsie
• A Spool of Blue Thread
  Anne Tyler
• The Paying Guests
  Sarah Waters
• Outline
  Rachel Cusk

Longlist

• The Life of a Banana
  PP Wong
• The Shore
  Sara Taylor
• The Walk Home
  Rachel Seiffert
• The Table of Less Valued Knights
  Marie Phillips
• The Country of Ice Cream Star
  Sandra Newman
• Station Eleven
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Elizabeth Is Missing
  Emma Healey
• Dear Thief
  Samantha Harvey
• I Am China
  Xiaolu Guo
• Aren't We Sisters?
  Patricia Ferguson
• Crooked Heart
  Lissa Evans
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
  Heather O’Neill

Jane Ciabattari: The 10 Best Books of 2014 as published by BBC Culture

[see also 2016 • 2015 • 2013]

1. Euphoria
   Lily King
2. Lila
   Marilynne Robinson
3. An Untamed State
   Roxane Gay
4. Some Luck
   Jane Smiley
5. Wonderland
   Stacey D'Erasmo
6. The Kills

   Sutler, The Massive, The Kill, and The Hit
   Richard House
7. Penelope Fitzgerald

   A Life
   Hermione Lee
8. The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
   Rebecca Solnit
9. Nora Webster
   Colm Tóibín
10. A Brief History of Seven Killings
    Marlon James

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2014

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• 10:04
  Ben Lerner
• Three Hundred Million
  Blake Butler
• All the Light We Cannot See
  Anthony Doerr
• All My Puny Sorrows
  Miriam Toews
• The Bone Clocks
  David Mitchell
• The Book of Unknown Americans
  Cristina Henríquez
• The Enchanted
  Rene Denfeld
• Fourth of July Creek
  Smith Henderson
• Frog Music
  Emma Donoghue
• I Loved You More
  Tom Spanbauer
• In Certain Circles
  Elizabeth Harrower
• Karate Chop
  Dorthe Nors
• Lila
  Marilynne Robinson
• The Martian
  Andy Weir
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  Richard Flanagan
• The Paying Guests
  Sarah Waters
• The Rathbones
  Janice Clark
• Station Eleven
  Emily St. John Mandel
• The Sun Is God
  Adrian McKinty
• Talking to Ourselves
  Andrés Neuman
• An Unnecessary Woman
  Rabih Alameddine
• We Are Not Ourselves
  Matthew Thomas
• Wolf in White Van
  John Darnielle

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2014

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014]

• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

  A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
  Jeff Hobbs
• The Empathy Exams
  Leslie Jamison
• The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
  Rebecca Solnit
• Bad Feminist
  Roxane Gay
• My Life as a Foreign Country
  Brian Turner
• Unruly Places

  Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
  Alastair Bonnett
• Blood Will Out

  The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
  Walter Kirn
• On Immunity

  An Inoculation
  Eula Biss
• Words Will Break Cement

  The Passion of Pussy Riot
  Masha Gessen
• American Cocktail

  A “Colored Girl” in the World
  Anita Reynolds

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2014

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• All the Light We Cannot See
  Anthony Doerr
• Dept. of Speculation
  Jenny Offill
• Euphoria
  Lily King
• Family Life
  Akhil Sharma
• Redeployment
  Phil Klay

Nonfiction

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
  Roz Chast
• On Immunity

  An Inoculation
  Eula Biss
• Penelope Fitzgerald

  A Life
  Hermione Lee
• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Thirteen Days in September

  The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
  Lawrence Wright

Chicago Public Library: Top Ten Books of 2014

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• All the Light We Cannot See
  Anthony Doerr
• Bad Feminist
  Roxane Gay
• Big Little Lies
  Liane Moriarty
• A Brief History of Seven Killings
  Marlon James
• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
  Roz Chast
• Euphoria
  Lily King
• On Immunity

  An Inoculation
  Eula Biss
• Redeployment
  Phil Klay
• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Station Eleven
  Emily St. John Mandel

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2014

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• On Immunity

  An Inoculation
  Eula Biss
• Thirteen Days in September

  The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
  Lawrence Wright
• The Corpse Exhibition

  And Other Stories of Iraq
  Hassan Blasim
• Limonov
  Emmanuel Carrère
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  Elena Ferrante
• A Brief History of Seven Killings
  Marlon James
• The Empathy Exams
  Leslie Jamison
• Bark
  Lorrie Moore
• The Dog
  Joseph O'Neill
• Deep Down Dark

  The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
  Héctor Tobar