Boston Public Library: Top Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of the 2010s

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Boston Public Library, 20 Books

The top 10 books of the 2010s from the Reader Services Department at the Boston Public Library. Please note that this list only includes the fiction and non-fiction books. The genres are aggregated in a different list.

This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site almost 3 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3569 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
2636 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2230 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
409 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 American Italian
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
1650 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017 American English
1898 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 American English
4950 Dark Money Jane Mayer 2016 American English
1844 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
8258 Strangers In Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 American English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
4815 Dreamland Sam Quinones 2015 American English
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
10453 What The Eyes Don't See Mona Hanna-Attisha 2018 American English