Liz Whaley's favorite books of 2015!

Liz Whaley’s List of Good Books Read in 2015
Our recently retired bookseller Liz Whaley is still one of the best readers we know. These were her favorite books this year. 

Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Purity by Jonathan FranzenThe Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant 
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin


Mysteries
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
Four by Denise Mina:  Still Midnight, The End of the Wasp Season, Gods and Beasts, The Red Road
A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

Nonfiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stephenson
The Pawnbroker’s Daughter: A Memoir by Maxine Kumin
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

Coming in 2016
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (January, 2016)
All Stories Are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer (March, 2016)