Year-End Lists

Esquire: The Best Books of the 2010s

1. Between the World and Me
   Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. My Brilliant Friend
   Elena Ferrante
2. The Story of a New Name
   Elena Ferrante
2. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
   Elena Ferrante
2. The Story of the Lost Child
   Elena Ferrante
3. Less
   Andrew Sean Greer
4. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
   Rebecca Skloot
6. There There
   Tommy Orange
7. These Truths

   A History of the United States
   Jill Lepore
8. Swamplandia!
   Karen Russell
9. Concussion
   Jeanne Marie Laskas
10. The Sympathizer
    Viet Thanh Nguyen
11. Just Kids
    Patti Smith