The Many Faces of Christ by Philip Jenkins (nonfiction 2015)

'The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels' is full of wonderful surprises and immediately added 20 titles to my pages-long reading list.  Jenkins includes nearly the entire world in this discussion of the texts of Christianity.

Murder in Megara by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer (historical mystery 2015)

The 11th book in the John, the Lord Chamberlain mysteries follows John and his family to Megara in exile.  I have enjoyed other books in this series, but for some reason this one lacked energy.