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Literary Fiction · 2010s

Best Literary Fiction of the 2010s

The best literary fiction books first published in the 2010s, ranked — a focused list of 93 titles.

Room Emma Donoghue · 2010 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan · 2010 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Foster Claire Keegan · 2010 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
HHhH Laurent Binet · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi · 2010 Essential Read See details →
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante · 2011 Essential Read See details →
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller · 2011 Essential Read See details →
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward · 2011 Essential Read See details →
Me Before You Jojo Moyes · 2012 Essential Read See details →
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Story of a New Name Elena Ferrante · 2012 Essential Read See details →
Wonder R.J. Palacio · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin · 2012 Essential Read See details →
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Tenth of December George Saunders · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Life After Life Kate Atkinson · 2013 Essential Read See details →
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante · 2013 Essential Read See details →
We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo · 2013 Essential Read See details →
MaddAddam Margaret Atwood · 2013 Essential Read See details →
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini · 2013 Essential Read See details →
An Officer and a Spy Robert Harris · 2013 Essential Read See details →
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt · 2014 Essential Read See details →
How to Be Both Ali Smith · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Outline Rachel Cusk · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Dept of Speculation Jenny Offill · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Lost Child Elena Ferrante · 2014 Essential Read See details →
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Human Acts Han Kang · 2014 Essential Read See details →
Redeployment Phil Klay · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 Essential Read See details →
A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas · 2015 Essential Read See details →
November 9 Colleen Hoover · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Sellout Paul Beatty · 2015 Essential Read See details →
Fates and Furies Lauren Groff · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Autumn Ali Smith · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Swing Time Zadie Smith · 2016 Essential Read See details →
My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Transit Rachel Cusk · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Days Without End Sebastian Barry · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 Cho Nam-Joo · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Commonwealth Ann Patchett · 2016 Essential Read See details →
Pachinko Min Jin Lee · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Exit West Mohsin Hamid · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Sing Unburied Sing Jesmyn Ward · 2017 Essential Read See details →
In the Distance Hernan Diaz · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Less Andrew Sean Greer · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Home Fire Kamila Shamsie · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Overstory Richard Powers · 2018 Essential Read See details →
There There Tommy Orange · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Great Alone Kristin Hannah · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Verity Colleen Hoover · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Circe Madeline Miller · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Kudos Rachel Cusk · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Milkman Anna Burns · 2018 Essential Read See details →
An American Marriage Tayari Jones · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Merci Suarez Changes Gears Meg Medina · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Long Take Robin Robertson · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free Andrew Miller · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Blue Book of Nebo Manon Steffan Ros · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead · 2019 Essential Read See details →
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Daisy Jones and The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Family Upstairs Lisa Jewell · 2019 Essential Read See details →
In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Trust Exercise Susan Choi · 2019 Essential Read See details →
New Kid Jerry Craft · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Look Both Ways Jason Reynolds · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Lark Anthony McGowan · 2019 Essential Read See details →
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara · 2015 Recommended See details →
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles · 2016 Recommended See details →
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman · 2017 Recommended See details →
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng · 2017 Recommended See details →
Normal People Sally Rooney · 2018 Recommended See details →
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens · 2018 Recommended See details →
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo · 2019 Recommended See details →

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