The best books you read in 2015?

Lillipot - I'd be interested to read your thoughts on Capital, the novel, compared with the tv adaptation. I read it before watching it, but won't say any more

1. Middlesex
2. The Poisonwood Bible
3. Lucky Jim
4. The Secret History
5. The Testament of Mary
6. Wolf Hall
7. Bring Up the Bodies

Not got much to contribute as it's been a year when I haven't had much headspace to read but I loved
"The Last Runaway" by Tracy Chevalier
"Capital" by John Lanchester (in fact still reading it and saving TV show to watch)

Years ago I read 84 Charing Cross Rd and now inspired to read again!

Good thread, thanks OP.

The Goldfinch
Life after Life
Elizabeth is Missing

Life after life, Kate Atkinson
The Last Runaway, Tracy Chevalier
An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris
Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
Wild, Cheryl Strayed

Marking place on this thread for ideas for books to read in 2016 - thanks everyone (you all seem to be very prolific readers)

Loved child 44 too!

I read some fabulous books last year! Off the top of my head...

The secret history
The goldfinch
Hausfrau
A God in ruins I loved, if you take it as the beautiful story rather than a means to an end!

I vary my trading and I liked a few of the nippy thrillers like I let you go and girl on the train.

Enjoyed the heart goes last
The year of the runaways

These were amazing:

The Narrow Road to the deep North by Richard Flanagan
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Bone Clocks and Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
All the Light We cannot see by Anthony Doerr

This one is an older book that I absolutely loved, highly recommended with a cracking ending:

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

I also enjoyed A Man called Ove, Burial Rites and the Martian....

New - Year of the runaways
Classic - Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Sci-fi - Lexicon - Max Barry
The Long Narrow Road to the Deep North
& recommended here Into Thin Air

I loved The Book of Strange New Things. Listened to it on audiobook, was very enjoyable. Poignant that Faber said in an interview it is likely to be his last novel, following the death of his wife.

Just bought that on Kindle, Trip. Thanks for the rec.

The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber (love,love,love this book!)
Under the Skin - Michel Faber
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
The Silent History - has 3 authors whose names I can't remember!

Santa gave me A God in Ruins. I suggested it thanks to MN! and I will read it soon.

Ones I have read - got into a VG series of crime/historical fiction a few months ago. The Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. They are funny, quirky, depsite beng seriously grim at times - story begins in 1930s Berlin and the stories bob about a bit form then to during WW2, and post-war period. Current one in 1950s Cuba. I've read others good things too, but sieve-like memory lets me down when it comes to sharing.

We Are Not Ourselves
God in Ruins
Narrow Road to the Deep North

I've just finished reading The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien. What a wonderful writer.

I'd never read any of her books before. I just finished Girls in their Married Bliss (the last book in the trilogy) and I've been blubbering away on Christmas Day.

Fantastic and highly recommended.

I read some great books this year. I'm listing the ones I know I'll never forget.
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Wallcreeper and Mislaid by Nell Zink

Nell Zink is the only one on the list I hadn't heard of before this year so she is my discovery of 2015.

Some of my favourites this year:
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
The Story of Before by Susan Stairs
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Villa America by Liza Klaussman

Yes to, 'Into Thin Air.'

Cool thread topic

My best reads in 2015 were:

Spares - Michael Marshall Smith
Last Man Standing: Tales From Tinseltown - Sir Roger Moore
The Martian - Andy Weir
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Alan Turing: The Enigma - Andrew Hodges
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin (author) and Ken Liu (translator)
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
Golden Son - Pierce Brown
The King In Yellow - Robert W Chambers
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
The Complete Short Stories. Vol 1 - J G Ballard
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Afterparty - Daryl Gregory
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Flood - Stephen Baxter
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies - Ben Macintyre
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD And The True Story Of A Life Lost In Thought - David Adam

My top 8.

Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal - Jeanette Winterson
Meadowland - John Stempel
H is for Hawk - Helen MacDonald
Blacklands - Belinda Bauer
The People's Songs - Stuart Maconie
The Moth Catcher - Ann Cleeves
Career of Evil - Rober Galbraith
Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
Bits of Cloud Atlas

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey
The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
Us - David Nicholls
The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
The Children Act - Iain McEwan
The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin

My top five for 2015:

The Children's Book by AS Byatt
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns by Alice Jolly

Gerard Russel's Heirs to forgotten kingdoms was sublime, really excellent. Non fiction about the sadly disappearing religious minorities in the Middle East. Old religions, such as the yazidis and manicheans.
Fiction wise I loved the Perer Grant series, Elena Ferrante and I finally read and loved the Stand.