Readers' top 10 best books of 2015

After authors and reviewers chose their favourite books of the year, it’s time to let Guardian readers speak – here are your most-beloved books of 2015

Best of culture in 2015: see this year’s cultural highlights, chosen by the Guardian’s writers and critics

It’s December, and you know what that means: best-of lists have been published and to-be-read piles have grown. Take your pick: authors’ favourites (here, curated by the Guardian Review; here, by The Observer) or critics’ picks genre by genre. But what about readers, you ask? Here is a selection of the excellent reviews they sent in for their favourite books of 2015.

They include some of the year’s most lauded fiction – like Marlon James’s powerful Man Booker winner about violence in 70s Jamaica –, some of the most anticipated, like Elena Ferrante’s conclusion to her Neapolitan series or Franzen’s return, and some of the most discussed, like Hanya Yanagihara’s mammoth A Little Life, a novel about friendship and the effects of child abuse, which has ignited heated debates among readers and critics. But our readers also vouch for extraordinary works of fantasy fiction, nature memoir and travel writing. Here are the notable books you most voted for, and why they’re worth reading – in your own words.

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