Books and Things 38.8K subscribers · Jan 6, 2016

Favourite Books of 2015

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I also was much more engaged by now story than Ruth again I really love this like I said it was one of my favorite books of the year but I just wanted to briefly explain why it's not higher up on the list but yeah I still loved it anyway

both of these were the finale to trilogies that I'd really enjoyed and I thought both of them like wrapped up the series really well and in terms of like pure enjoyment both of them were like quite high up for me on this year

Haunted ManCharles Dickens
Loved it

two of the novelas that are included in this the cricket on the heart and the haunted man I hadn't read before and they were definitely two of my favorite things this year I thought brilliant

How to Be BothAli Smith
Loved it

it's just a really interesting way of deconstructing binaries and I thought it was absolutely beautiful I found it so moving and lovely and the writing is really interesting

kitchen is one of the most moving things I've ever read it's about grief and it is about loneliness and it's is about gender and it is about like Solitude and friendship and it is just so beautiful

Mary BartonElizabeth Gaskell
Loved it

it is one of the most incredible books I've ever read and it is really interesting really unexpected really moving and powerful and just brilliant

Ptolemy's GateJonathan Stroud
Loved it

both of these were the finale to trilogies that I'd really enjoyed and I thought both of them like wrapped up the series really well and in terms of like pure enjoyment both of them were like quite high up for me on this year

The ChimesAnna Smaill
Loved it

I just thought this was so beautiful like the way an a smil deals with language in this book is so beautiful I thought it was so just lovingly written and just such a brilliant world

two of the novelas that are included in this the cricket on the heart and the haunted man I hadn't read before and they were definitely two of my favorite things this year I thought brilliant

The LakeBanana Yoshimoto
Loved it

I just found this so moving it's about a young woman and her next door neighbor and kind of their relationship and it's also about dealing with trauma long after it has happened and coming to terms with grief and just so many beautiful things