Sundress Authors’ Picks for Best Reads of 2015

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10 years ago

Looking for a new read? We went to Sundress Publication’s Authors for a list of their favorite books of 2015!

This is Woman’s Work

By Dominique Christina

Selected by Jennifer Jackson Berry, author of When I Was a Girl.

After

By Fatimah Asghar

Selected by Jennifer Jackson Berry, author of When I Was a Girl.

Wild Hundreds

By Nate Marshall

Selected by Jennifer Jackson Berry, author of When I Was a Girl.

Ban En Banlieue

By Bhanu Kapil

Selected by Fox Frazier-Foley, author of Exodus in X Minor.

Bindle

By Elisabeth Frost & Dianne Kornberg

Selected by Fox Frazier-Foley, author of Exodus in X Minor.

Transit

By Cam Awkward-Rich

Selected by Fox Frazier-Foley, author of Exodus in X Minor.

I Was Not Born

By Julia Cohen

Selected by Kristina Marie Darling, author of Fortress.

Department of Speculation

By Jenny Offill

Selected by Kristina Marie Darling, author of Fortress.

With Animal

By Carol Guess & Kelly Magee

Selected by Kristina Marie Darling, author of Fortress.

Yearling

By Lo Kwa Mei-en

Selected by Neil Aitken, author of Babbage’s Dream (forthcoming 2016).

Love the Stranger

By Jay Deshpande

Picked by Neil Aitken,author of Babbage’s Dream (forthcoming 2016).

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By Ross Gay

Selected by Donna Vorreyer, author of A House of Many Windows.

Challenger Deep

By Neal Shusterman

Selected by Donna Vorreyer, author of A House of Many Windows.

Bright Dead Things

By Ada Limon

Selected by Donna Vorreyer, author of A House of Many Windows.

War of the Foxes

By Richard Siken

Selected by Amorak Huey, author of Ha Ha Ha Thump.

Do Not Rise

By Beth Bachmann

Selected by Amorak Huey, author of Ha Ha Ha Thump.

Gabi, A Girl in Pieces

By Isabel Quintero

Selected by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Built with Safe Spaces (forthcoming 2016).

Houses

By Nikki Wallschlaeger