Best 2015 Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking

by Mary Gaitskill

Gaitskill explores the complexities of love (mares, meres…) to bring us a novel that gallops along like a bracing bareback... Full review >

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by Garth Risk Hallberg

The very-damn-good American novel. Full review >

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by James Hannaham

A poised and nervy study of race in a unique voice. Full review >

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by Clarice Lispector ; translated by Katrina Dodson ; edited by Benjamin Moser

Essential and sure to turn up soon on reading lists in courses in women’s studies and Jewish diaspora literature as well as... Full review >

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by Anthony Marra

A powerful and melancholy vision of a nation with long memories and relentless turmoil. Full review >

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by Paul Beatty

Another daring, razor-sharp novel from a writer with talent to burn. Full review >

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by Susan Barker

Effortlessly blends the past with the present, dark humor with profound sadness. A deeply human masterpiece. Full review >

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by Toni Morrison

A chilling oracle and a lively storyteller, Nobel winner Morrison continues the work she began 45 years ago with The Bluest... Full review >

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by Paul Murray

Murray manages the trick of being thoughtful and entertaining. His creative energy sends the book in many directions, making... Full review >

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by Peter Nichols

A literary island vacation with a worldly, wonderfully salacious storyteller. Full review >

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by Caryl Phillips

Gorgeously crafted and emotionally shattering. Full review >

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by Helen Phillips

Intense and enigmatic, tense and tender, this novel offers no easy answers—its deeper meanings may mystify—but it grabs you... Full review >

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by Jim Shepard

Ordinary people reveal dimensions that are extraordinarily cruel or kind. Full review >

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by Sarai Walker

Part Fight Club, part feminist manifesto, an offbeat and genre-bending novel that aims high—and delivers. Full review >

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by Claire Vaye Watkins

The ghost of John Muir meets a touch of Terry Gilliam. Full review >

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by Hanya Yanagihara

The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel. Full review >

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