A Few Novels That Blew My Mind in 2015

This list pertains to the books I read in 2015. Some have been published recently, while others have been around for a while, but I just got to them last year.

This post began its life as a VERY long list of best loved titles, but it was too overwhelming to deal with all at once so it's been partitioned into separate blogs about mind blowing books I read in 2015. 

And holy carumba, but winnowing just my list of novels down to 10 top books was too anxiety provoking. Therefore, I've created categories of books.

MIDDLE GRADE

The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles

Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley

Finding Grace by Becky Citra

Finding the Worm by Mark Goldblatt

Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead

Greenglass House by Kate Milford

The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern 

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J. Cavanaugh

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,

YOUNG ADULT

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero (I loved this one so much that I gave it away as gifts to my great nieces)

Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

All Alone in the Universe by Lynne Rae Perkins

AUDIOBOOKS

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (I read this one in the Spring and listened to it again in December) It is worth rereading!

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

Zombie Baseball Beatdown by Paolo Bacigalupi

ADULT

All The Light We Cannot see by Anthony Doerr

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg (I loved this so much I asked for and received my own copy as a Christmas gift)

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

Skim by Mariko Tamaki

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (I gave copies of this to my daughters-in-laws for Christmas this year)