At the end of 2015, we asked you to share your favorite books with us. With thanks to you, we’ve compiled our reader-generated Best Of 2015 list. We asked you which books you read and loved in 2015 with your group, and which books you read and loved last year in your personal reading. Clearly you all had your favorites beyond those in your discussions! We were also surprised to see where your group reading and solo reading preferences overlapped, and where they diverged. Scroll down to see your top 15 picks in each category. 

Group Reads | Solo Reads

Top 15 Group Reads

• ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
• BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty
• THE BOYS IN THE BOAT: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
• THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins
• THE HUSBAND'S SECRET by Liane Moriarty
• THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd
• THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M. L. Stedman
• A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman
• ME BEFORE YOU by Jojo Moyes
• THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah
• ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline
• THE ROSIE PROJECT by Graeme Simsion
• THE SECRET WISDOM OF THE EARTH by Christopher Scotton
• SOME LUCK by Jane Smiley
• THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY by Gabrielle Zevin

Top 15 Solo Reads

• ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
• BEING MORTAL: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• BIG LITTLE LIES by Liane Moriarty
• CIRCLING THE SUN by Paula McLain
• DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILY by Bill Clegg
• THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins
• INSIDE THE O'BRIENS by Lisa Genova
• A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara
• A MAN CALLED OVE by Fredrik Backman
• THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES by Alice Hoffman
• ME BEFORE YOU by Jojo Moyes
• THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah
• ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger
• THE SECRET WISDOM OF THE EARTH by Christopher Scotton
• A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD by Anne Tyler