The Greatest Books Since 2010

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates Countries

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
409 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 American Italian
421 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
741 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
791 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2012 American English
837 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
922 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
1022 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1101 Outline Rachel Cusk 2014 British English
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
1209 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 American English
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
1368 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 American English
1381 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
1390 A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 2014 Jamaican English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
1413 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
1435 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 British English
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
1650 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017 American English
1672 Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan 2011 American English
1701 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 American English
1703 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 American English
1751 NW Zadie Smith 2012 British English
1752 Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 2013 American English
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
1818 Barbarian Days William Finnegan 2015 American English
1844 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English
1861 Citizen Claudia Rankine 2014 American English
1898 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
1983 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
2001 The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 2013 American English
2002 Freedom Jonathan Franzen 2010 American English
2069 The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012 American English
2076 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
2107 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
2115 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
2165 The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka 2011 American English
2182 Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon 2012 American English
2218 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 British English
2224 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
2227 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2229 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
2242 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
2294 Family Life Akhil Sharma 2014 Indian English
2311 Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu 2015 Romanian Romanian
2324 Being Mortal Atul Gawande 2014 American English
2334 How to be both Ali Smith 2014 British English
2336 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
2343 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021 Irish English
2414 Educated Tara Westover 2018 American English
2445 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
2497 Room Emma Donoghue 2010 Irish English
2502 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 Ghanaian English
2522 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
2526 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 2019 American English
2533 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2588 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
2595 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson 2011 British English
2607 Heavy Kiese Laymon 2018 American English
2617 The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante 2011 Italian Italian
2626 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty 2013 French French
2635 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2641 The Power Naomi Alderman 2016 British English
2646 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
2651 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
2678 H Is For Hawk Helen MacDonald 2014 British English
2702 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah 2015 American English
2705 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 Mexican English
2735 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
2740 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
2804 Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 2015 American English
2805 James Percival Everett 2024 American English
2826 A Manual For Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin 2015 American English
2828 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
2842 10:04 Ben Lerner 2014 American English
2866 The Story Of The Lost Child Elena Ferrante 2014 Italian Italian
2882 Septology Jon Fosse 2019 Norwegian Norwegian
2918 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 British English
2926 The Return Hisham Matar 2016 Libyan English
2935 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
2979 Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 American English
2991 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 American English
3048 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3052 Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston 2019 American English
3059 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
3092 Disturbance Philippe Lançon 2018 French French
3097 Open City Teju Cole 2011 American English
3103 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3114 Foster Claire Keegan 2010 Irish English
3139 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
3164 Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill 2014 American English
3172 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
3178 Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood 2017 American English
3180 Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver 2012 American English
3183 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3205 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
3207 Submission Michel Houellebecq 2015 French French
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
3217 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 American English
3228 Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag 2015 Indian Kannada
3233 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
3258 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3272 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3317 The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 2018 Vietnamese English
3405 Fifty Shades of Grey: E. L. James 2011 British English
3430 Get A Life, Chloe Brown Talia Hibbert 2019 British English