Winter fiction special
A Brief History of Seven Killingsby Marlon James
A little Lifeby Hanya Yanagihara
A Manual for Cleaning Womenby Lucie Berlin
Sweet Caressby William Boyd
The Book of Memoryby Petina Gappah
Golden Ageby Jane Smiley
Noondayby Pat Barker
High Diveby Jonathan Lee
December
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Leftby Roger Scruton
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deceptionby George A Akerlof and Robert J Shiller
Project Fear: How an Unlikely Alliance left a Kingdom United but a Country Dividedby Joe Pike
1916: A Global Historyby Keith Jeffrey
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putinby Steven Lee Myers
Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitterby Frank Furedi
If the Oceans Were Inkby Carla Power
November
Kid Glovesby Adam Mars-Jones
"Memoir-writing is enjoying a renaissance"
Music, Sense and Nonsense by Alfred Brendel
"Alfred Brendel writes as tellingly about music as he plays it"
The Audacious Ascetic by Flagg Miller
"As the book opens, he is in Yemen having a fraught conversation with the leader of an al-Qaeda front at a festival celebrating the end of Ramadan"
No More Champagneby David Lough
"Churchill was plagued by one question: Who would keep him in the style to which he had become accustomed?"
The Blue Touch Paperby David Hare
"David Hare’s beautifully abrasive memoir suggests, as with a firework, that you light the blue touch paper and stand back"
Why the Dutch are Differentby Ben Coates
Hope Without Optimismby Terry Eagleton
A Strangeness in My Mindby Orhan Pamuk
October
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder (Bodley Head, £25)
"Snyder relates the vulnerability of Jews to their citizenship and the persistence of state structures"
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro (Faber & Faber, £20)
"As James was pushing to unite England and Scotland, Shakespeare produced King Lear, a play about a British king who destroys his kingdom (and his sanity) by dividing it"
Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 by Isaiah Berlin (Chatto & Windus, £40)
"Berlin had many interesting ideas to his name. His best, though, was a rejection of the idea of 'positive freedom,'"
The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2015 by Ian Brunskill (Times Books, £60)
"If this May saw a political earthquake, Brunskill and his team have published the etchings of the seismograph"
Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity by Larissa MacFarquhar (Allen Lane, £20)
"The conflict between the duties we owe to our loved ones and those we owe to distant strangers is one that has preoccupied philosophers for centuries"
Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet by Edward Lucas (Bloomsbury, £17.99)
"I’d call what’s on offer outraged scepticism rather than outright phobia—and it’s all the better for it."
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West 1918-1938by Philipp Blom (Atlantic Books, £25)
"“It is the tragedy of the interwar period that it did not have an open future”
September
Going Upby Frederic Raphael
The Physicist and the Philosopherby Jimena Canales
Promised You A Miracle: UK 80-82 by Andy Beckett
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
Pope of Good Promise by Jimmy Burns
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949by Ian Kershaw
The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy by Valerie M Hudson and Patricia Leidl
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Marketsby John Plender
Summer fiction special
The Lost Art of Sinkingby Naomi Booth (Penned in the Margins, £12.99)
Quicksandby Steve Toltz (Sceptre/Hodder, £17.99)
Dancing in the darkby Karl Ove Kanussgaard (Harvill Secker, £17.99)
A Spool of Blue Threadby Anne Tyler (Vintage, £7.99)
Early Warningby Jane Smiley (Mantle, £18.99)
The Meursault Investigationby Kamel Daoud (Oneworld, £8.99)
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All My Puny Sorrowsby Miriam Toews (Faber & Faber, £17.99)
Funny Girlby Nick Hornby (Penguin, £7.99)
August
The Obama Doctrineby Colin Dueck (OUP USA, £14.99)
Following Farageby Owen Bennett (Biteback, £12.99)
How Propaganda Worksby Jason Stanley (Princeton University Press, £19.95)
Fighters in the Shadowsby Robert Gildea (Faber & Faber, £20)
Transby Juliet Jacques (Verso, £14.99)
Black Holeby Marcia Bartusiak (Yale, £14.99)
Not in God's Nameby Jonathan Sacks (Hodder & Stoughton, £20)
Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixtiesby Kevin M Schultz (WW Norton, £17.99)
July
Deng Xiaoping: a Revolutionary LifeBy Alexander V Pantsov and Steven I Levine "Deng Xiaoping, the diminutive, bridge-playing Chinese dictator, enjoys a relatively benign reputation in the west..."
How the French thinkBy Sudhir Hazareesingh "Hazareesingh has done more than anyone writing in English to unravel what the sociologist Emmanuel Todd recently called “le mystère français.”
Worrying: a Literary and Cultural HistoryBy Francis O’Gorman "This malaise has over the centuries been the constant companion of many active, and sometimes overactive, minds"
How to be a MinisterBy John Hutton and Leigh Lewis "It’s not easy running the country, or even running a part of it through a government department"
The Festival of InsignificanceBy Milan Kundera "Born in 1929, the exiled Czech novelist Milan Kundera captivated western readers in the 1980s with playful tales of life under communism"
The Ancients and the Postmodernsby Frederic Jameson "The greatest works of art, whether modern or postmodern, have one unifying ambition"
The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedyby by Masha Gessen "What made two young American boys build two pressure cooker bombs that killed and injured hundreds of their fellow citizens at a community marathon?"
Agents Of Empire by Noel MalcolmThrough their experience, the vast landscape of 16th-century warfare is illuminated
June
The Bamboo Stalk By Saud Alsanousi (£16.99)
The Paradox of Liberationby Michael Walzer (Yale University Press, £16.99)
Violence, a Modern Obsessionby Richard Bessel (Simon and Schuster, £20)
Alfred Hitchcockby Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus, £12.99)
Pax Technicaby Philip N Howard (Yale University Press, £16.99)
Headscarves and Hymensby Mona Eltahawy
Nicola Sturgeon: a Political Lifeby David Torrance
On the Move: A Lifeby Oliver Sacks
May
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gambleby Antony Beevor (Penguin, £20)
Misbehaving: How Economics Became Behaviouralby Richard Thaler (Allen Lane, £20)
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?by Nick Lane (Profile, £25)
Keeping an Eye Openby Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape, £16.99)
Do It Like A Womanby Caroline Criado-Perez (Portobello, £12.99)
"We Love Death As You Love Life": Britain's Suburban Terroristsby Raffaello Pantucci
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Timesby AC Grayling
God Help the Childby Tony Morrison (Chatto & Windus, £14.99)
April
The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in NorwayBy Åsne Seierstad(Virago, £16.99)The Tears of the RajahsBy Ferdinand Mount(Simon & Schuster, £25)
The Story of AliceBy Robert Douglas-Fairhurst(Harvill Secker, £25)
Is Shame Necessary?By Jennifer Jacquet(Allen Lane, £17.99)
WastedBy Georgia Gould(Little, Brown £14.99)
The Soul of the MarionetteBy John Gray(Allen Lane, £17.99)
Can Financial Markets be Controlled?By Howard Davies(Polity, £7.99)
Scientific Babel By Michael Gordin (Profile, £19.99)
March
Cameron's CoupBy Polly Toynbee and David Walker (Guardian/Faber, £9.99)
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?By Katrine Marçal (Portobello, £12.99)
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New GeopoliticsBy Andrew Small (Hurst & co., £30)
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East—1914-1920By Eugene Rogan(Allen Lane, £19.99)
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern ScienceBy Steven Weinberg(Allen Lane, £20)
The age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America 1933-1973 By Mark Greif (Princeton, £19.95)
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste LandBy Robert Crawford (Jonathan Cape, £25)
Odysseus AbroadBy Amit Chaudhuri(Oneworld, £14.99)
February
Europe Entrappedby Claus OffeIn other parts of the EU, much Eurosceptic criticism comes from the left
Taking Commandby David Richards It's extremely rare for a genuine maverick to become a general
Buying Timeby Wolfgang Streeck Confronts us with a stark choice between democracy and capitalism
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russiaby Peter Pomerantsev How does the Kremlin distort reality?
The Internet is Not the AnswerBy Andrew Keen This tech entrepreneur rejects the gospel of the digital revolution
The Birth of the Pillby Jonathan Eig As some women begin to turn away from the pill, this is a reminder of just how much it has changed our lives
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Leftby Yuval Levin Is American politics too polarised?
10.04by Ben Lerner A new kind of existence demands a new kind of novel
January
The Best of Benn: Speeches, Diaries, Letters and Other WritingsEdited by Ruth Winstone (Hutchinson, £20) Political prophets are mocked or loathed until their views became part of a fashionable consensus.
Walter Lippmann: Public Economistby Craufurd D Goodwin (Harvard University Press, £25.95) Walter Lippmann was one of the greatest American journalists, particularly known for his columns in the New York Herald Tribune.
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928Stephen Kotkin (Allen Lane, £30) This immense work, by the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin, is an astounding feat of historical research.
Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanismby Philip Kitcher (Yale University Press, £16.99) We’ve had “New Atheism,” “New New Atheism,” and now Columbia philosophy professor Phillip Kitcher would like to propose a third alternative, “soft” atheism.
The Secret History of Wonder WomanJill Lepore (Scribe, £20) “With the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules—she is known only as Wonder Woman, but who she is, or whence she came, nobody knows!”
The Future of the BrainEdited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman (Princeton University Press, £16.95) If you want a breezy, whistle-stop tour of the latest brain science, look elsewhere. But if you’re up for chunky, rather technical expositions by real experts, this book repays the effort.
Discontent and its CivilisationsMohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton, £16.99) Readers of Moshin Hamid’s fiction will be familiar with the sense of discontent that pervades his narratives.
The Emerald Light in the Air: Storiesby Donald Antrim (Granta, £12.99) Several qualities unite the characters in Donald Antrim’s first collection of short stories.
