Earlier this month, the Notable Books Council announced the 2015 selections of the Notable Books List, which is an annual "best-of" list consisting of twenty-six adult titles that were published in the United States. The categories include fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
Check out the fiction titles below!
Two Mennonite sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, struggle with Elf's depression and attempts to end her life while holding their family together. By the author of Summer of My Amazing Luck. (Publisher Summary)
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace. (Publisher Summary)
Interweaves six narratives spanning the period between 1984 and the 2030s to chronicle a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes who would take them down. By the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas. (Publisher Summary)
A highly respected London judge hides her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son. (Publisher Summary)
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
Enduring a lonely life in his London print shop, divorced American George Duncan rescues an injured white crane only to fall desperately in love with a an enigmatic Japanese artist who seems to hold the potential to change his entire life. By the award-winning author of A Monster Calls. (Publisher Summary)
Arriving at an ancient stone prison, the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed, digs into the past of a killer named York, who can sense what others cannot, and unearths shocking secrets of her own. (Publisher Summary)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Haunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia. By the award-winning author of Gould's Book of Fish. (Publisher Summary)
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
A tale set in a class-divided future America where urban neighborhoods function as labor colonies for elite charter villages, Fan, a female fish-tank diver, embarks on what becomes a legendary quest to find the man she loves in a region overcome by anarchic forces. By the award-winning author of Native Speaker. (Publisher Summary)
An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid in this new novel from the award-winning author of Generosity. (Publisher Summary)
Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash
An anthology of short fiction captures the complexities of Appalachia, illuminating the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the old and new south, tenderness and violence and man and nature. By the best-selling author of Serena, the basis for a motion picture released in Fall 2014. (Publisher Summary)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates. (Publisher Summary)
Tigerman by Nich Harkaway
Assigned to a ceremonial post in Mancreu, British consul and Afghanistan war veteran Lester Ferris is compelled to disregard widespread underworld activities while bonding with a comic-addicted youth who during a violent uprising desperately relies on him for help. By the award-winning author of Angelmaker. (Publisher Summary)
Click here to view the official announcement.
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