Books about the U.S. Supreme Court, both fiction and nonfiction, seemed to proliferate more than ever in 2015, and it is easy to see why.

Not only has a succession of blockbuster cases put the court front and center of the public’s attention in recent years, but Arnold & Porter partner Anthony Franze said, “the justices themselves also seem to be maintaining a higher profile than ever before.” (Franze wrote a Supreme Court thriller The Last Justice in 2012, and has another, The Advocate’s Daughter set for publication next March.)