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Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest work is the Audible Original The Sound at the End. My other books are Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

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Kirsty Logan

Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest work is the Audible Original The Sound at the End. My other books are Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

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Best Books of 2015

29th Dec 2015 in Books

This year I read 197 books. I tried to do a top 5, or even a top 10, but to be honest 197 books is a LOT of books (I did months of solo travelling and overnights in hotels, meaning lots of reading), and it was too hard to choose. So here is a highly personal, not-very-scientifically-chosen list of my 38 favourites.

 

Books out in 2015:

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  • Best Twist Ending: Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller
  • Best Novel in Second Person: Scorper, Rob Magnuson Smith
  • Best Can’t-Stop-Reading-Once-You’ve-Started: The Exit, Helen Fitzgerald
  • Best Warms-Yer-Cockles Novel: Vigilante, Shelley Harris
  • Best Short Stories About Loneliness: An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, Jessie Greengrass
  • Best Non-Fiction About the Internet: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson

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  • Best Semi-Autobiographical Novel By A Writer I Did an Event With: Girl At War, Sara Novic
  • Best Novella: The Lost Art of Sinking, Naomi Booth
  • Best Novel About Circuses and the Sea: The Book of Speculation, Erika Swyler
  • Best Book by a Canadian Author: Etta & Otto & Russell & James, Emma Hooper
  • Best Worldbuilding in a Children’s Novel: Lockwood & Co: The Hollow Boy, Jonathan Stroud
  • Best Worldbuilding in a YA Novel: Ruin & Rising, Leigh Bardugo

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  • Best Mystery Novel About Suffragettes: The Hourglass Factory, Lucy Ribchester
  • Best Novel About Contemporary Feminist Issues: Fishnet, Kirstin Innes
  • Best Finnish-Set Horror That I Really Shouldn’t Have Read While Staying in a Creepy Attic Room in Finland: The Black Tongue, Marko Hautala
  • Best Fairytale Parody: Undermajordomo Minor, Patrick deWitt

 

Books Out Before 2015:

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  • Best Christmas-Themed Horror: NOS4R2, Joe Hill
  • Best Feminist Dystopia: Only Ever Yours, Louise O’Neill
  • Best Historical YA About Girls With Their Tongues Cut Out: All the Truth That’s in Me, Julie Berry
  • Best Novel in Short Stories: The Spinning Heart, Donal Ryan
  • Best Memoir About the Dyatlov Pass Incident: Dead Mountain, Donnie Eichar
  • Best Novel That Made Me Do Proper Sobbing Gasping Crying: Days of Grace, Catherine Hall

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  • Best Modern Point-Horror Style Horror: Say Her Name, James Dawson
  • Best Book With No Words: The Arrival, Shaun Tan
  • Best Poetry/Nature/Social History Crossover: Holloway, Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards
  • Best Short Stories About Bears: Bears of England, Mick Jackson
  • Best Made-Me-Angry Essays: Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
  • Best Spec-Fic Short Stories: The Poison Eaters, Holly Black

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  • Best Essays About the Strange Personal Lives of Children’s Writers: Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups, Alison Lurie
  • Best Memoir About Books: How to be a Heroine, Samantha Ellis
  • Best Horror With an Unreliable Narrator: Remainder, Tom McCarthy
  • Best Haunted House Novel: Nyctophobia, Christopher Fowler
  • Best Sensory-Deprivation Horror: Bird Box, Josh Malerman
  • Best Book I Wish I’d Written: The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman

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  • Best Comic Book: Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Best Classic Children’s Book: Skellig, David Almond
  • Best Book About Selkies: Orkney, Amy Sackville
  • Best YA Magical Realism: Imaginary Girls, Nova Ren Suma

 

What were your favourite reads in 2015?

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