I don't rate books, but here's a list of the books I enjoyed the most this year:
Non-fiction
Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand
Longitude by Dava Sobel
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
Fiction
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Blackhouse by Peter May
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
Faithful Place by Tana French (also In The Woods)
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (plus the rest of the Department Q series)
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, aka JK Rowling
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
The Caves of Perigord by Martin Walker
The Sea Detective by Mark Douglas-Home
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