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Town & Country: The 17 Best Books of the 2010s

21 December 2019

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Town & Country: The 17 Best Books of the 2010s

[see also 2023]

  1. The Goldfinch
    Donna Tartt
  2. The Luminaries
    Eleanor Catton
  3. A Little Life
    Hanya Yanagihara
  4. Just Kids
    Patti Smith
  5. Lincoln in the Bardo
    George Saunders
  6. Crazy Rich Asians
    Kevin Kwan
  7. My Brilliant Friend
    Elena Ferrante
  8. A Visit from the Goon Squad
    Jennifer Egan
  9. Americanah
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  10. All the Light We Cannot See
    Anthony Doerr
  11. The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead
  12. Between the World and Me
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
  13. The Flamethrowers
    Rachel Kushner
  14. Negroland
    A Memoir
    Margo Jefferson
  15. Fates and Furies
    Lauren Groff
  16. A Gentleman in Moscow
    Amor Towles
  17. French Exit
    Patrick deWitt

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