Boston Public Library: Top Genre Books of the 2010s
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The top 10 genre specific books of the 2010s from the Reader Services Department at the Boston Public Library. Please note that this list only includes specific genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Horror, Memoirs, Middle School, Picture Books, Romance, Science Fiction, Self-Help, Social Justice, Thrillers, and Young Adult. Their general Fiction and Non-fiction are in another list.
This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1115 | The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin | 2015 | American | English | |
| 13890 | The Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker | 2013 | American | English | |
| 2646 | Circe | Madeline Miller | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7744 | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James | 2019 | Jamaican | English | |
| 7964 | Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7127 | Jade City | Fonda Lee | 2017 | Chinese | English | |
| 10550 | The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | 2014 | American | English | |
| 11899 | Sorcerer To The Crown | Zen Cho | 2015 | Singaporean | English | |
| 5437 | The Way of Kings | Brandon Sanderson | 2010 | American | English | |
| 10927 | The City Of Brass | S. A. Chakraborty | 2017 | Egyptian | English | |
| 17008 | Monstress Vol. 1 | Marjorie Liu | 2015 | American | English | |
| 13890 | Saga Vol. 1 | Brian K. Vaughan | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Hip Hop Family Tree | Ed Piskor | 2013 | American | English | |
| 6111 | The Best We Could Do | Thi Bui | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Hawkeye | Matt Fraction | 2012 | American | English | |
| 14901 | My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 | Emil Ferris | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14901 | My Brother's Husband | Gengoroh Tagame | 2014 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 13181 | Hyperbole And A Half | Allie Brosh | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Black Panther By Ta Nehisi Coates Vol. 1 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17008 | A Bride's Story | Kaoru Mori | 2009 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 14165 | The Passage | Justin Cronin | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Devil All The Time | Donald Ray Pollock | 2011 | American | English | |
| 9624 | Penpal | Dathan Kahn Auerbach | 2012 | American | English | |
| 6595 | Nos4 A2 | Joe Hill | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Horrorstör | Grady Hendrix | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Alice | Christina Henry | 2015 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion | Margaret Killjoy | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14901 | The Cabin At The End Of The World | Paul Tremblay | 2018 | American | English | |
| 14901 | The Luminous Dead | Caitlin Starling | 2019 | American | English | |
| 11194 | Becoming | Michelle Obama | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2408 | Educated | Tara Westover | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2109 | Just Kids | Patti Smith | 2010 | American | English | |
| 2675 | H Is For Hawk | Helen MacDonald | 2014 | British | English | |
| 6591 | Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | 2016 | American | English | |
| 6524 | Hunger | Roxane Gay | 2017 | American | English | |
| 3585 | Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7159 | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | 2012 | American | English | |
| 5451 | The Yellow House | Sarah M. Broom | 2019 | American | English | |
| 6518 | Born A Crime | Trevor Noah | 2016 | South African | English | |
| 14901 | George | Alex Gino | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The War That Saved My Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | 2015 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Smile | Raina Telgemeier | 2010 | American | English | |
| 14165 | One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | 2010 | American | English | |
| 9105 | Lumberjanes | Noelle Stevenson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10270 | The Jumbies | Tracey Baptiste | 2015 | Trinidadian | English | |
| 17008 | Dactyl Hill Squad | Daniel José Older | 2018 | American | English | |
| 9034 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Front Desk | Kelly Yang | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | 2016 | American | English | |
| 4971 | I Want My Hat Back | Jon Klassen | 2011 | Canadian | English | |
| 17008 | Journey | Aaron Becker | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Book With No Pictures | B. J. Novak | 2014 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Last Stop On Market Street | Matt de la Peña | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Worm Loves Worm | J.J Austrian | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Maybe Something Beautiful | F. Isabel Campoy | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Day You Begin | Jacqueline Woodson | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17008 | When Aidan Became A Brother | Kyle Lukoff | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Dreamers | Yuyi Morales | 2018 | Mexican | English | |
| 17008 | Drum Dream Girl | Margarita Engle | 2015 | Cuban | English | |
| 3311 | The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang | 2018 | Vietnamese | English | |
| 6880 | Bared To You | Sylvia Day | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Suffragette Scandal | Courtney Milan | 2014 | American | English | |
| 5954 | A Princess In Theory | Alyssa Cole | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17008 | A Girl Like Her | Talia Hibbert | 2018 | British | English | |
| 3046 | Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Savor The Moment | Nora Roberts | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Lady's Guide To Celestial Mechanics | Olivia Waite | 2019 | American | English | |
| 6517 | The Hating Game | Sally Thorne | 2016 | Australian | English | |
| 17008 | Hate To Want You | Alisha Rai | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Quantum Thief | Hannu Rajaniemi | 2010 | Finnish | English | |
| 2737 | The Martian | Andy Weir | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Vn | Madeline Ashby | 2012 | Canadian | English | |
| 5691 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | 2013 | American | English | |
| 4528 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9521 | Binti | Nnedi Okorafor | 2015 | Nigerian | English | |
| 12051 | Ninefox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Exit Strategy | Martha Wells | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10932 | Gideon The Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2019 | New Zealand | English | |
| 14165 | The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | 2011 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 7133 | Atomic Habits | James Clear | 2018 | American | English | |
| 13890 | Daring Greatly | Brené Brown | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17008 | The Book Of Joy | Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho | 2016 | Tibetan | English | |
| 14901 | 12 Rules For Life | Jordan B. Peterson | 2018 | Canadian | English | |
| 14901 | The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck | Mark Manson | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Women & Money | Suze Orman | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17008 | 10% Happier | Dan Harris | 2014 | American | English | |
| 14901 | The Nature Fix | Florence Williams | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Make Your Bed | William H. McRaven | 2017 | American | English | |
| 1207 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | American | English | |
| 13514 | I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | 2013 | Pakistani | English | |
| 8439 | March | John Lewis | 2013 | American | English | |
| 8410 | She Said | Jodi Kantor | 2019 | American | English | |
| 14165 | We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2014 | Nigerian | English | |
| 7081 | The Color Of Law | Richard Rothstein | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Love Wins | Debbie Cenziper | 2016 | American | English | |
| 1699 | The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17008 | No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference | Greta Thunberg | 2019 | Swedish | English | |
| 1392 | Evicted | Matthew Desmond | 2016 | American | English | |
| 14901 | Before I Go To Sleep | S. J. Watson | 2011 | British | English | |
| 790 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 2012 | American | English | |
| 6648 | You | Caroline Kepnes | 2014 | American | English | |
| 5476 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 7009 | The Girl On The Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17008 | In A Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17008 | The Widow | Fiona Barton | 2016 | British | English | |
| 17008 | The Woman In The Window | A. J. Finn | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5958 | The Perfect Nanny | Leïla Slimani | 2016 | French | French | |
| 14901 | The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides | 2019 | British | English | |
| 3276 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | 2017 | American | English | |
| 4138 | Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | 2012 | American | English | |
| 4699 | Six Of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | 2015 | American | English | |
| 4072 | Children Of Blood And Bone | Tomi Adeyemi | 2018 | Nigerian | English | |
| 9785 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | 2017 | American | English | |
| 9290 | The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo | 2018 | American | English | |
| 3482 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7586 | Code Name Verity | Elizabeth Wein | 2012 | British | English | |
| 6857 | The Cruel Prince | Holly Black | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17008 | Heroine | Mindy McGinnis | 2019 | American | English |