I hope everyone’s 2015 ended with some great reading, family, friends, and fantastic food.

Of those I read in the year 2015 — those published in 2015 and before — these are the best in these categories:

Best Series:

Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue)

Best Children’s Book: (TIE)

• I Want to Eat Your Books by Karin Lefranc, illustrated by Tyler Parker
• Firefly July by Paul Janeczko

Best Memoir:

Displacement by Lucy Knisley

Best Nonfiction:

LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair by Beth Kephart

Best Short Story Collection:

The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War 

Best Young Adult Fiction:

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Best Reference:

How to Entertain, Distract, and Unplug Your Kids by Matthew Jervis

Best Women’s Fiction:

French Coast by Anita Hughes

Best Historical Fiction: (TIE)

• Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor
• The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
• The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck

Best Fiction:

• The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon

Best Poetry: (TIE)

• Wet Silence by Sweta Vikram
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Here is the list of BEST BOOKS PUBLISHED in 2015:

1. Wet Silence by Sweta Vikram
2. The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
3. Vessel by Parneshia Jones
4. LOVE: A Philadelphia Affair by Beth Kephart
5. The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck
6. The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
7. Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor
8. One Thing Stolen by Beth Kephart
9. The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
10. The Sound of Glass by Karen White
11. Mistaking Her Character by Maria Grace
12. Earth Joy Writing by Cassie Premo Steele, PhD

What were your favorites in 2015?