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- 2015 fiction quiz: Can you recognize these opening lines?
How many have you read? Test yourself by seeing if you can match first lines to the titles of the Monitor's favorite novels (and one collection of short stories) from 2015.
- 'Tiny: Streetwise Revisited' is an evocative followup from Mary Ellen Mark
The gifted portraitist captures decades of life lived on the edges.
- Why print book sales are rising, and books are getting longer
E-book sales have remained stagnant in 2015. But print book sales are up, and Harper Lee's latest novel and adult coloring books are the big winners.
- 'Hiroji Kubota Photographer' chronicles a life of exploration
Hiroji Kubota made a career out of identifying with the dispossessed.
- The most looked-up word in 2015? Socialism.
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster attributes the popularity of the word 'socialism' to US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.
- 10 best nonfiction books of 2015: the Monitor's picks Here are the 10 nonfiction books the Monitor's critics liked best this year.
- 'The Crossing' teams Harry Bosch with his scruffy half-brother Mickey Haller
'The Crossing' puts two popular characters – Bosch and Haller – on the same side, trying to prove a reformed gang member innocent of a high-profile murder of a suburban woman in her bed.
- 10 best fiction books of 2015: the Monitor's picks From short stories to serial novels to an engrossing Russian saga, here are the 10 fiction titles the Monitor's book critics liked best in 2015.
- Bestselling books the week of 12/13/15, according to IndieBound What's flying fastest off the shelves of independent bookstores this week? IndieBound's list is based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States for the sales week ended Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015.
- 'To Hell and Back' chronicles Europe on the brink of annihilation
Kershaw is particularly good at exploring 'fascism's message of national renewal, powerfully linking fear and hope,' and the book's sections on postwar deprivations England breathe with immediacy.