Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s. In addition to the lists below, check out their large number of honorable mentions.

[see also 38 Favorite Books of 2024 • Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 • Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 • Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 • The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s • Favorite Books of 2018]

The Top Twenty

• A Visit from the Goon Squad
  Jennifer Egan
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
  David Mitchell
• Train Dreams
  Denis Johnson
• The Buddha in the Attic
  Julie Otsuka
• The Tiger’s Wife
  Téa Obreht
• Salvage The Bones
  Jesmyn Ward
• The Flamethrowers
  Rachel Kushner
• All My Puny Sorrows
  Miriam Toews
• Dept. of Speculation
  Jenny Offill
• The Sellout
  Paul Beatty
• The Sympathizer
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara
• The Fifth Season
  N.K. Jemisin
• Outline
  Rachel Cusk
• The Underground Railroad
  Colson Whitehead
• Imagine Me Gone
  Adam Haslett
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• In the Distance
  Hernan Diaz
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• Milkman
  Anna Burns

Dissenting Opinions

• C
  Tom McCarthy
• The Sisters Brothers
  Patrick deWitt
• The Woman Upstairs
  Claire Messud
• Duplex
  Kathryn Davis
• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 10:04
  Ben Lerner
• An Unnecessary Woman
  Rabih Alameddine
• Fates and Furies
  Lauren Groff
• News of the World
  Paulette Jiles
• Solar Bones
  Mike McCormack
• Mr. Splitfoot
  Samantha Hunt
• Homegoing
  Yaa Gyasi
• Margaret the First
  Danielle Dutton
• The Idiot
  Elif Batuman
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Indian Horse
  Richard Wagamese
• Inland
  Téa Obreht