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Esquire: The Best Books of the 2010s

01 December 2019

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Esquire: The Best Books of the 2010s

[see also The 20 Best Books of 2023 • The Best Books of 2022 • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 50 Best Books of 2021 • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

  1. Between the World and Me
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
  2. My Brilliant Friend
    Elena Ferrante
  3. The Story of a New Name
    Elena Ferrante
  4. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
    Elena Ferrante
  5. The Story of the Lost Child
    Elena Ferrante
  6. Less
    Andrew Sean Greer
  7. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  8. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Rebecca Skloot
  9. There There
    Tommy Orange
  10. These Truths
    A History of the United States
    Jill Lepore
  11. Swamplandia!
    Karen Russell
  12. Concussion
    Jeanne Marie Laskas
  13. The Sympathizer
    Viet Thanh Nguyen
  14. Just Kids
    Patti Smith

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