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Best books

December 2016

  • Page 341 – Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez

    Best books of 2016
    The best biography and autobiography books of 2016

    Cocktails with Sartre and dark memories of Gaddafi … Kathryn Hughes explores extraordinary lives

November 2016

  • Amy Adams Arrival

    Best books of 2016
    The best SF and fantasy books of 2016

    In a year in which new and important voices from around the world made themselves heard, Adam Roberts reflects on SF’s ever-expanding universe

January 2016

  • Profile of a young woman reading a book

    Rethinking prosperity
    Capitalism under the spotlight: six must-read books

    From 1970s sci-fi to modern-day India via postcapitalism and work slaves, check out our recommended reading for the coming year

29 December 2015

  • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones, How to Be an Alien by George Mikes, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Fantastic Night by Stefan Zweig and The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts

    Best culture 2015
    The best book we've read all year: Guardian writers and readers look back

    It’s been a wonderful year for literature so here are the reads we’ve enjoyed the most in 2015, new or not. From poetry to psychoanalysis, fiction to biography, Guardian writers and readers look back

24 December 2015

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    Bestselling books 2015: Fifty Shades still on top

    Books by women make up seven of the top 10 most bought this year, while colouring-in is more popular than TV tie-ins

18 December 2015

  • A Notable Woman by Jean Lucey Pratt Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Wallcreepers by Nell Zink Postcapitalism by Paul Mason All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews Etta Otto Russell James by Emma Hooper book cover composite

    Best culture 2015
    Winners and losers: publishers pick the 2015 books they loved, missed and envied

    Which books did well, which were left on the shelves, and which made them green with envy?

11 December 2015

  • Books top 10

    Best culture 2015
    The master list: All the best books of 2015

  • A Little Life by Hanya Hanagihara, A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson, A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro and Purity by Jonathan Franzen

    Best culture 2015
    Readers' top 10 best books of 2015

8 December 2015

  • Poet Claudia Rankine at her home, September 26, 2014.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best poetry books of 2015

  • Oliver Sacks provided a touching account of his life as a neurologist, not long before his death this year.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best science books of 2015

7 December 2015

  • From Pablo by Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best graphic books of 2015

    A life of Picasso, a brush with a shark and a gripping take on the Middle East
  • An Eames office design from the ‘handsome’ World of Ray and Charles Eames.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best architecture books of 2015

    A new warmth towards brutalism, handsome volumes on Charles and Ray Eames, Le Corbusier, and George Gilbert Scott’s prodigious gothic output
  • Reconstruction of Mondrian’s Paris studio.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best art books of 2015

    From the tidy world of Piet Mondrian to sculptors Antony Gormley and Isamu Noguchi – the year’s best art titles

6 December 2015

  • From the book Find a Fallen Star by Regine Petersen Merkel's Junkyard

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best photography books of 2015

  • Tom Jones on the Today show

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best celebrity memoirs of 2015

  • Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, and winner of the Man Booker prize.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best novels of 2015

  • John Le Carré in Cornwall in 2007.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best biographies of 2015

5 December 2015

  • A butterfly sitting on a flower

    Best culture 2015
    The best nature books of 2015

    Follow Stephen Moss into the fascinating world of undiscovered owls, alien plants, jewel-like butterflies and bizarre marsupials
  • IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2015 - NEWS - Reenactors Prepare To Commemorate The 200th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Waterloo<br>WATERLOO, BELGIUM - JUNE 19: Members of the Allied army practice their square formation to counter cavalry charges on June 19, 2015 in Waterloo, Belgium. Around 5000 historical re-enactors will amass this evening to stage the 1st battle re-enactment, the 'French attack', in front of around 200,000 spectators from around the world. The event will mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1815 battle saw the overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte and the restoration of Louis XVIII to the French throne. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) *** BESTOF2015 *** YEARINREVIEW ***

    Best culture 2015
    The best history books of 2015

    Anniversary accounts of battles for land and freedom, and Brits were exposed for the teary folk they really are
  • Two players give each other high-fives in the Borussia Dortmund v VfB Stuttgart match last month

    Best culture 2015
    The best sports books of 2015

    Prizewinning football analysis, inside Jamaica’s sprint factory, and the psychology of winners (and losers)
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