These are my top picks in a few categories of our 15 years of reading.

Fiction

A Man Called Ove                                            Fredrik Backman

A Gentleman in Moscow                               Amor Towles

All the Light We Cannot See                        Anthony Doerr

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk                  Ben Fountain

The Sisters Brothers                                        Patrick DeWitt

The Garden of Evening Mists                       Tan Twan Eng

A Visit from the Goon Squad                       Jennifer Egan

The White Tiger                                                Aravind Adiga

Ask the Dust                                                       John Fante

Beloved                                                               Toni Morrison

The History of Love                                         Nicole Krauss

The Life of Pi                                                      Yann Martel

Science-Fiction

Dune                                                                     Frank Herbert

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy       Douglas Adams

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August    Claire North

Snow Crash                                                         Neil Stephenson

Cloud Atlas                                                         David Mitchell

The Wind-up Girl                                              Paulo Bacigalupi

Non-Fiction

We Have Been Harmonized                         Kai Strittmatter

Red Notice                                                          Bill Browder

Four Fishes                                                         Paul Greenberg

The Bottom Billion                                           Paul Collier

Stiff:
The Curious Life of Human Cadavers        Mary Roach