1. My Name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout, Random House
2. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, Scribner
3. The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins, Riverhead
4. Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff, Riverhead
5. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's
6. Rogue Lawyer, by John Grisham, Doubleday
7. The Guest Room, by Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday
8. Dictator, by Robert Harris, Knopf
9. The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende, Atria
10. Even Dogs in the Wild, by Ian Rankin, Little Brown - Debut
11. Felicity, by Mary Oliver, Penguin Press
12. The Guilty, by David Baldacci, Grand Central
13. The Past, by Tessa Hadley, Harper
14. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, by Alan Dean Foster, Lucas Books
15. A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara, Doubleday
On the Rise:
18. Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, by Sunil Yapa, Lee Boudreaux Books
Yapa's electrifying debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests is a January 2016 Indie Next List Great Read.