Year-End Lists

BuzzFeed: The 24 Best Books of the 2010s

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  Isabel Wilkerson
• The Round House
  Louise Erdrich
• Building Stories
  Chris Ware
• Tiny Beautiful Things

  Advice on Love and Life from “Dear Sugar”
  Cheryl Strayed
• My Struggle (six volumes)
  Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Neapolitan Novels
  Elena Ferrante
• Far From the Tree

  Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
  Andrew Solomon
• Wave
  Sonali Deraniyagala
• The Goldfinch
  Donna Tartt
• Annihilation
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Citizen

  An American Lyric
  Claudia Rankine
• Station Eleven
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Dept. of Speculation
  Jenny Offill
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders
• The Argonauts
  Maggie Nelson
• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara
• Outline Trilogy
  Rachel Cusk
• One of Us

  The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
  Asne Seierstad
• Less
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Severance
  Ling Ma
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Conversations with Friends
  Sally Rooney
• She Said

  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
  Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey