very belated booklist for 2015

The Bookshop Book- Jen Campbell
Lila-  Marilynne Robinson
The Wise Man's Fear- Patrick Rothfuss
The Sleeper and the Spindle- Neil Gaiman
The Strange Library- Haruki Murakami
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
The Hare with the Amber Eyes- Edmund de Waal
The Age of Magic- Ben Okri
Unmade- Sarah Rees Brennan
Station Eleven- Emily St John Mandel
The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own Making- Catherynne M. Valente
Still Alice- Lisa Genova
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo- Ntozake Shange
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam- Ann Marie Fleming
A Month in the Country- J.L. Carr
Lagoon- Nnedi Okorafor
Connecting with Law- Michelle Sanson
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays- AS Byatt
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night- Heather O'Neill
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There- Catherynne M. Valente
Lucky Us- Amy Bloom
At Home: A Short History of Private Life- Bill Bryson
The Ape Who Guards the Balance- Elizabeth Peters
Some Kind of Fairytale- Graham Joyce
The Grand Duchess of Nowhere- Laurie Graham
Fledgling- Octavia Butler
The Falcon at the Portal- Elizabeth Peters
Ragtime- E.L. Doctorow
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves- Karen Joy Fowler
Shortcomings- Adrian Tomine
Oranges are not the Only Fruit- Jeanette Winterson
A Fairly Honourable Defeat- Iris Murdoch
Shy: A Memoir- Sian Prior
The Crossing Places- Elly Griffiths
A Girl's Guide To Modern European Philosophy- Charlotte Grieg
Who Fears Death- Nnedi Okorafor
Damsels in Distress- Joan Hess
Moondogs- Alexander Yates
He Shall Thunder in the Sky- Elizabeth Peters
The L-Shaped Room- Lynne Reid Banks
The Three-Body Problem- Cixin Liu
A God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson
Lord of the Silent- Elizabeth Peters
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know- Emily Oster
Heat and Light- Ellen van Neerven
Some Luck- Jane Smiley
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic- Alison Bechdel
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History- Eduardo Galeano
Cairo- Willow G. Wilson
Reluctantly Charmed- Ellie O'Neil
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction- Craig Edward (ed)
Alif the Unseen- Willow G. Wilson
Looking for Alaska- John Green
The Wife Drought- Annabel Crabb
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and two not-so-great ones) changed my life- Andy Miller
The Golden One- Elizabeth Peters
Early Warning- Jane Smiley
Foxglove Summer- Ben Aaronovitch
Eustace- S.J. Harris
American Gods- Neil Gaiman
Sidney Chambers and the Perils of Night- James Runcie
My Real Children- Jo Walton
Shades of Milk and Honey- Mary Robinette Kowal

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