Amazon Names Best Books of 2015, 'Fates and Furies' Takes #1
Amazon.com announced its selections for the Best Books of 2015, naming Lauren Groff’s dazzling Fates and Furies as the Best Book of the Year. Amazon’s team of editors reads hundreds of thousands of pages, choosing the best books of every month and then, finally, the best books of 2015.
The annual feature includes the Top 100 Books of the Year, as well as Top 20 lists in over two-dozen categories, from Children’s & Young Adult to Literary Fiction to curated lists from celebrities.
Here is the Top 10 editors’ picks for the year:
1. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
2. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
4. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
5. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
6. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
7. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
8. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
9. Hold Still by Sally Mann
10. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins