It seems that once you start making lists you can’t stop. I was only going to do a big decade piece for the movies, but I have been really proud of myself for a renewed commitment to reading, so I wanted to take a crack at a best of the decade for books. This Top 25 Books of the Decade list was a fun list to compile as many of these books I didn’t remember coming out this decade. I was a different person when I read The Tiger’s Wife for example, than I am now having finished Washington Black. But each of the books listed below made a big impact on me, not just from a positive reading experience, but helping change how I engaged with story and storytelling. What books did you love from this past decade?

Top 25 Books of the Decade – 2010s Edition

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2012)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (2011)
Artifice by Alex Wolfson (2013)
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston (2018)
Captive Prince Trilogy by C.S. Pacat (2015-2016)
Did You Ever Have a Family? by Bill Clegg (2016)
Dumplin by Julie Murphy (2015)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (2015)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (2010)
Homegoing by Ya Gyassi (2018)
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychel Denzel Smith (2016)
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (2011)
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2018)
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (2015)
On Earth As It Is In Heaven by Davide Enia (2014)
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee (2010)
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston (2019)
Redeployment by Phil Klay (2014)
Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E. Schwab (2015-2017)
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghusrt (2018)
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (2019)
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen (2018)
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (2011)
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (2013)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan(2018)