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Books of the 2010s

Diversity and new voices reshaped the literary conversation. Colson Whitehead, Sally Rooney, Hanya Yanagihara. The novel of identity and society dominated prizes. 279 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander · 2010 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
Room Emma Donoghue · 2010 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Foster Claire Keegan · 2010 Essential Read See details →
HHhH Laurent Binet · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi · 2010 Essential Read See details →
Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 Editor's Choice See details →
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman · 2011 Editor's Choice See details →
The Lean Startup Eric Ries · 2011 Editor's Choice 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 →
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn · 2012 Essential Read See details →
Me Before You Jojo Moyes · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Fault in Our Stars John Green · 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 →
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer · 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 →
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk · 2014 Essential Read See details →
The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert · 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 →
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson · 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 →
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates · 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 →
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin · 2015 Essential Read See details →
The Argonauts Maggie Nelson · 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 →
Born a Crime Trevor Noah · 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 Hate U Give Angie Thomas · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Devotions Mary Oliver · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin Nosrat · 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 →
Hunger Roxane Gay · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Less Andrew Sean Greer · 2017 Essential Read See details →
The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Home Fire Kamila Shamsie · 2017 Essential Read See details →
Educated Tara Westover · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Becoming Michelle Obama · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Atomic Habits James Clear · 2018 Editor's Choice 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 →
Down the River unto the Sea Walter Mosley · 2018 Essential Read See details →
The Blue Book of Nebo Manon Steffan Ros · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Exhalation Ted Chiang · 2019 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 →
The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Know My Name Chanel Miller · 2019 Essential Read See details →
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Trust Exercise Susan Choi · 2019 Essential Read See details →
New Kid Jerry Craft · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Good Girl, Bad Girl Michael Robotham · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Look Both Ways Jason Reynolds · 2019 Essential Read See details →
A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The City in the Middle of the Night Charlie Jane Anders · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Volunteer Jack Fairweather · 2019 Essential Read See details →
Lark Anthony McGowan · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson · 2010 Recommended See details →
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Big Short Michael Lewis · 2010 Recommended See details →
Full Dark, No Stars Stephen King · 2010 Recommended See details →
Matched (Matched Trilogy, Book 1) Ally Condie · 2010 Recommended See details →
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Hunger Games Trilogy (Hunger Games Suzanne Collins · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Passage Justin Cronin · 2010 Recommended See details →
Bug food Charlotte Guillain · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Ugly Truth Jeff Kinney · 2010 Recommended See details →
At Home Bill Bryson · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Disappearing Spoon Sam Kean · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Shallows Nicholas G. Carr · 2010 Recommended See details →
Improve Your Communication Skills Alan Barker · 2010 Recommended See details →
Forms in early modern utopia Nina Chordas · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes David Grann · 2010 Recommended See details →
Inheritance Christopher Paolini · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Lost Hero Rick Riordan · 2010 Recommended See details →
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern · 2011 Recommended See details →
The Martian Andy Weir · 2011 Recommended See details →
Divergent Veronica Roth · 2011 Recommended See details →
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson · 2011 Recommended See details →
Allegiant Veronica Roth · 2011 Recommended See details →
Delirium Lauren Oliver · 2011 Recommended See details →
Insurgent Veronica Roth · 2011 Recommended See details →
The true tale of the monster Billy Dean David Almond · 2011 Recommended See details →
Wool Hugh Howey · 2011 Recommended See details →
The Weird Ann VanderMeer · 2011 Recommended See details →
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer Megan McDonald · 2011 Recommended See details →
Live Wire Harlan Coben · 2011 Recommended See details →
Shelter Harlan Coben · 2011 Recommended See details →
Stink and the ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown Megan McDonald · 2011 Recommended See details →
The tao of travel Paul Theroux · 2011 Recommended See details →
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel · 2012 Recommended See details →
Dear Life Alice Munro · 2012 Recommended See details →
Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas · 2012 Recommended See details →
Wild Cheryl Strayed · 2012 Recommended See details →
Quiet Susan Cain · 2012 Recommended See details →
The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg · 2012 Recommended See details →
Daring Greatly Brene Brown · 2012 Recommended See details →
Memory of Water Emmi Itäranta · 2012 Recommended See details →
Stormdancer Jay Kristoff · 2012 Recommended See details →
The One (The Selection #3) Kiera Cass · 2012 Recommended See details →
The twelve Justin Cronin · 2012 Recommended See details →
Dragons love tacos Adam Rubin · 2012 Recommended See details →
The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg · 2012 Recommended See details →
Hallucinations Oliver Sacks · 2012 Recommended See details →
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road Susan L. Roberson · 2012 Recommended See details →
The Sports Gene David Epstein · 2013 Recommended See details →
Champion Marie Lu · 2013 Recommended See details →
MaddAdam Margaret Atwood · 2013 Recommended See details →
The 5th wave (The 5th Wave #1) Richard Yancey · 2013 Recommended See details →
The Bone Season Samantha Shannon · 2013 Recommended See details →
The Circle Dave Eggers · 2013 Recommended See details →
Cooked Michael Pollan · 2013 Recommended See details →
Food John Coveney · 2013 Recommended See details →
Salt Sugar Fat Michael Moss · 2013 Recommended See details →
Sister Mine Nalo Hopkinson · 2013 Recommended See details →
The People in the Trees Hanya Yanagihara · 2013 Recommended See details →
Data Collection in Sociolinguistics Christine Mallinson · 2013 Recommended See details →
You Are a Badass Jen Sincero · 2013 Recommended See details →
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library Chris Grabenstein · 2013 Recommended See details →
The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown · 2013 Recommended See details →
Impressions of Southern Italy Sharon Ouditt · 2013 Recommended See details →
Unspeakable Awfulness Kenneth D. Rose · 2013 Recommended See details →
From Midnight to Guntown John Hailman · 2013 Recommended See details →
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers · 2014 Recommended See details →
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 Recommended See details →
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz · 2014 Recommended See details →
H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald · 2014 Recommended See details →
Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit · 2014 Recommended See details →
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer · 2014 Recommended See details →
Kentukis Samanta Schweblin · 2014 Recommended See details →
The Girl with All the Gifts Mike Carey · 2014 Recommended See details →
Cooking and Eating Rebecca Rissman · 2014 Recommended See details →
The Long Haul Jeff Kinney · 2014 Recommended See details →
The Bravest Princess Elizabeth Dawson Baker · 2014 Recommended See details →
Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking · 2014 Recommended See details →
Think Like a Freak Steven D. Levitt · 2014 Recommended See details →
After You Jojo Moyes · 2014 Recommended See details →
Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert · 2014 Recommended See details →
Travel, Discovery, Transformation Gabriel R. Ricci · 2014 Recommended See details →
The Cinderella murder Mary Higgins Clark · 2014 Recommended See details →
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara · 2015 Recommended See details →
Uprooted Naomi Novik · 2015 Recommended See details →
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab · 2015 Recommended See details →
A Head Full of Ghosts Paul Tremblay · 2015 Recommended See details →
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins · 2015 Recommended See details →
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo · 2015 Recommended See details →
The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben · 2015 Recommended See details →
The Food Lab J. Kenji Lopez-Alt · 2015 Recommended See details →
Cadáver exquisito Agustina Bazterrica · 2015 Recommended See details →
The City of Mirrors Justin Cronin · 2015 Recommended See details →
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood · 2015 Recommended See details →
The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi · 2015 Recommended See details →
Superforecasting Philip E. Tetlock · 2015 Recommended See details →
12 Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson · 2015 Recommended See details →
Travel, Tourism and Identity Gabriel R. Ricci · 2015 Recommended See details →
All Dressed in White Mary Higgins Clark · 2015 Recommended See details →
Hope Amanda Berry · 2015 Recommended See details →
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles · 2016 Recommended See details →
Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz · 2016 Recommended See details →
It Ends with Us Colleen Hoover · 2016 Recommended See details →
The Hating Game Sally Thorne · 2016 Recommended See details →
Night Sky with Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong · 2016 Recommended See details →
I Contain Multitudes Ed Yong · 2016 Recommended See details →
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson · 2016 Recommended See details →
Deep Work Cal Newport · 2016 Recommended See details →
Grit Angela Duckworth · 2016 Recommended See details →
Shoe Dog Phil Knight · 2016 Recommended See details →
Evicted Matthew Desmond · 2016 Recommended See details →
Calamity Brandon Sanderson · 2016 Recommended See details →
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Adam Rutherford · 2016 Recommended See details →
The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016 Recommended See details →
The undoing project Michael Lewis · 2016 Recommended See details →
I Know This to Be True Geoff Blackwell · 2016 Recommended See details →
Flâneuse Lauren Elkin · 2016 Recommended See details →
The sick bag song Nick Cave · 2016 Recommended See details →
A Mother's Reckoning Sue Klebold · 2016 Recommended See details →
Filthy rich James Patterson · 2016 Recommended See details →
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman · 2017 Recommended See details →
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng · 2017 Recommended See details →
American War Omar El Akkad · 2017 Recommended See details →
Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich · 2017 Recommended See details →
QualityLand Marc-Uwe Kling · 2017 Recommended See details →
Year One Nora Roberts · 2017 Recommended See details →
All the Crooked Saints Maggie Stiefvater · 2017 Recommended See details →
The Changeling Victor D. LaValle · 2017 Recommended See details →
Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime Ben Blum · 2017 Recommended See details →
Normal People Sally Rooney · 2018 Recommended See details →
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens · 2018 Recommended See details →
I'll Be Gone in the Dark Michelle McNamara · 2018 Recommended See details →
Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018 Recommended See details →
Feel Free Zadie Smith · 2018 Recommended See details →
An easy death Charlaine Harris · 2018 Recommended See details →
Skyward Brandon Sanderson · 2018 Recommended See details →
The book of M Peng Shepherd · 2018 Recommended See details →
The wolves of winter Tyrell Johnson · 2018 Recommended See details →
Fromage a Trois Victoria Brownlee · 2018 Recommended See details →
Billion dollar whale Tom (Wall Street Journal reporter) Wright · 2018 Recommended See details →
Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow · 2018 Recommended See details →
The good mothers Alex Perry · 2018 Recommended See details →
The real Lolita Sarah Weinman · 2018 Recommended See details →
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo · 2019 Recommended See details →
Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston · 2019 Recommended See details →
The Flatshare Beth O'Leary · 2019 Recommended See details →
Underland Robert Macfarlane · 2019 Recommended See details →
After the Flood Kassandra Montag · 2019 Recommended See details →
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro · 2019 Recommended See details →
Ready Player Two Ernest Cline · 2019 Recommended See details →
Starsight Brandon Sanderson · 2019 Recommended See details →
The Testaments Margaret Atwood · 2019 Recommended See details →
Sudden Traveler Sarah Hall · 2019 Recommended See details →
Everything is F*cked Mark Manson · 2019 Recommended See details →
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb · 2019 Recommended See details →
Furious Hours Casey Cep · 2019 Recommended See details →
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson · 2019 Recommended See details →

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