Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s

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1. The Underground Railroad
   Colson Whitehead
2. Circe
   Madeline Miller
3. Homegoing
   Yaa Gyasi
4. Fates and Furies
   Lauren Groff
5. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
6. Swamplandia!
   Karen Russell
7. The Fifth Season
   N.K. Jemisin
8. The Leavers
   Lisa Ko
9. Station Eleven
   Emily St. John Mandel
10. Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Jesmyn Ward
11. The Way of Kings
    Brandon Sanderson
12. Wolf in White Van
    John Darnielle
13. Little Fires Everywhere
    Celeste Ng
14. The Water Dancer
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
15. The Goldfinch
    Donna Tartt
16. The Night Circus
    Erin Morgenstern
17. Family Life
    Akhil Sharma
18. Swing Time
    Zadie Smith
19. The Wise Man's Fear
    Patrick Rothfuss
20. Life After Life
    Kate Atkinson
21. The Destroyers
    Christopher Bollen
22. Boy, Snow, Bird
    Helen Oyeyemi
23. The Lesser Bohemians
    Eimear McBride
24. Red at the Bone
    Jacqueline Woodson
25. The Sympathizer
    Viet Thanh Nguyen
26. Eileen
    Ottessa Moshfegh
27. The Poppy War
    R.F. Kuang
28. Americanah
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
29. The Incendiaries
    R.O. Kwon
30. Bowlaway
    Elizabeth McCracken
31. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
    Hank Green
32. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
    Hannah Tinti
33. What Belongs to You
    Garth Greenwell
34. Who Fears Death
    Nnedi Okorafor
35. An Untamed State
    Roxane Gay
36. The Martian
    Andy Weir
37. Exit West
    Mohsin Hamid
38. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    Neil Gaiman
39. Sudden Death
    Álvaro Enrigue. Translated by Natasha Wimmer
40. Flight Behavior
    Barbara Kingsolver