See earlier posts for more books recommended by members of my book club and other friends. Click on the name of a book for a summary and/or comments.
The 2015 National Book Award Nominations:
http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html
Trompe l'Oeil, Nancy Reisman
Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
The Children Act, Ian McEwan
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, Eric Foner
Crossing To Safety, Wallace Stegner
The Whites, Harry Brandt
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert