The Top Book List

Award year

2015 National Book Award

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3, official announcement 4, official announcement 5

Fiction

Winner
Fortune Smiles: Stories
Adam Johnson
National Book Award Winner

National Book Award
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
National Book Award Finalist
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Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
National Book Award Finalist
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Refund: Stories
Karen E. Bender
National Book Award Finalist
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The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
National Book Award Finalist

Nonfiction

Winner
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
National Book Award Winner

National Book Award
Hold Still
Sally Mann
National Book Award Finalist
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If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Carla Power
National Book Award Finalist
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Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith
National Book Award Finalist
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The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery
National Book Award Finalist

Poetry

Winner
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis
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Bright Dead Things
Ada Limón
National Book Award Finalist
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
National Book Award Finalist
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Elegy for a Broken Machine
Patrick Phillips
National Book Award Finalist
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How to Be Drawn
Terrance Hayes
National Book Award Finalist

Young People's Literature

Winner
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
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Bone Gap
Laura Ruby
National Book Award Finalist
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin
National Book Award Finalist
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Nimona
ND Stevenson
National Book Award Finalist
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The Thing About Jellyfish
Ali Benjamin
National Book Award Finalist

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