Here are the 10 best books of 2015, selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review:

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Fiction

The Door

Magda Szabo
Translated by Len Rix
New York Review Books

Amazon
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Lucia Berlin
Edited by Stephen Emerson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Amazon
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Outline

Rachel Cusk
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Amazon
$10.45

The Sellout

Paul Beatty
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Amazon
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[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=1609452860&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Story of the Lost Child The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante]

[amazon text=The Story of the Lost Child&template=custom_title&asin=1609452860&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Story of the Lost Child The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante] (Neapolitan Novels, Book Four)

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Europa Editions

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Nonfiction

[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=0812993543&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates]

[amazon text=Between the World and Me&template=custom_title&asin=0812993543&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates]

[amazon text=Ta-Nehisi Coates&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Ta-Nehisi Coates]
Spiegel & Grau

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[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=0375713964&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Empire of Cotton: A Global History Sven Beckert]

[amazon text=Empire of Cotton: A Global History&template=custom_title&asin=0375713964&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Empire of Cotton: A Global History Sven Beckert]

[amazon text=Sven Beckert&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Sven Beckert]
Alfred A. Knopf

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H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald
Grove Press

Amazon
$6.98

[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=038535066X&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf]

[amazon text=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World&template=custom_title&asin=038535066X&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf]

[amazon text=Andrea Wulf&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Andrea Wulf]
Alfred A. Knopf

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One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Asne Seierstad
Translated by Sarah Death
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Amazon
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