Book Riot Readers Name the Best Books of 2015

The Book Riot crew revealed our Best Books of 2015 last week–it’s an awesome, eclectic list, and we hope you’ll take a look if you haven’t seen it already–and now it’s time to reveal the community favorites! 749 intrepid Riot readers took the poll we opened last week. Each nominated up to three of their favorite reads of the year, resulting in 629 (!) unique titles making the raw list. That’s a LOT of awesome books in one year. Here are the top 20. See the complete list of nominated titles here. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Uprooted by Naomi Novik The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Carry On by Rainbow Rowell The Daughters by Adrienne Celt Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg Winter by Marissa Meyer A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson Missoula by Jon Krakauer All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir These results overlap with and differ from the Riot crew’s list in interesting ways, and I want to know, readers: any surprises? Did your favorites make the final cut?