The Greatest Books Since 2010

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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.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3436 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
3443 Transit Rachel Cusk 2016 British English
3467 Kudos Rachel Cusk 2018 British English
3469 Solar Bones Mike McCormack 2016 Irish English
3472 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
3485 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 2012 American English
3488 Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor 2011 American English
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3522 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3531 An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine 2013 Lebanese English
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3576 The Possessed Elif Batuman 2010 Turkish English
3589 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3594 Thick Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 American English
3598 The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 2018 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3600 Debt David Graeber 2011 American English
3601 Human Acts Han Kang 2014 Korean Korean
3603 A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride 2013 Irish English
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
3615 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3627 Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata 2016 Japanese Japanese
3816 City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011 Irish English
3842 An Extraordinary Union Alyssa Cole 2017 American English
3847 Quiet Susan Cain 2012 English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
3889 There But For The Ali Smith 2011 British English
3914 Sudden Death Alvaro Enrigue 2013 Mexican Spanish
3922 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
3944 In The Dream House Carmen Maria Machado 2019 American English
4054 Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner 2011 American English
4077 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4135 The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 2013 American English
4143 Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English
4155 Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 2018 American English
4161 No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021 American English
4162 The Good Lord Bird James McBride 2013 American English
4187 Age of Ambition Evan Osnos 2014 American English
4188 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4292 What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell 2016 American English
4304 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
4306 It Ends With Us Colleen Hoover 2016 American English
4369 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 2013 American English
4381 How To End A Story Helen Garner 2021 Australian English
4392 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 American English
4394 We The Animals Justin Torres 2011 American English
4415 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters 2021 American English
4418 The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt 2011 American English
4459 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Aimee Bender 2010 American English
4470 Intermezzo Sally Rooney 2024 Irish English
4500 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 2010 Canadian English
4505 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
4532 Mend The Living Maylis de Kerangal 2014 French French
4533 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
4539 Rules Of Summer Shaun Tan 2013 Australian English
4577 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov 2020 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4588 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 2019 American English
4591 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
4595 Nora Webster Colm Toibin 2014 Irish English
4603 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
4608 Here Richard McGuire 2014 American English
4617 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
4622 The Party Richard McGregor 2010 Unknown English
4626 The Opium War Julia Lovell 2011 British English
4660 The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector 2016 Brazilian Portuguese
4661 The Swan Book Alexis Wright 2013 Australian English
4664 Building Stories Chris Ware 2012 American English
4679 Skippy Dies Pauli Murray 2010 Irish English
4681 A Horse Walks Into A Bar David Grossman 2014 Israeli Hebrew
4685 The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 2011 Serbian English
4707 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
4737 When A Scot Ties The Knot Tessa Dare 2015 American English
4739 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4754 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4805 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante 2013 Italian Italian
4813 Dreamland Sam Quinones 2015 American English
4823 Vernon Subutex Virginie Despentes 2015 French French
4827 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson 2018 American English
4850 Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, And Wear Cows Melanie Joy 2010 American English
4865 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4895 The Emissary Yoko Tawada 2014 Japanese Japanese
4933 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4938 Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood 2023 Australian English
4942 The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 British English
4941 Ghettoside Jill Leovy 2015 American English
4948 Dark Money Jane Mayer 2016 American English
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
4979 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
4980 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
4989 The Wandering Falcon Jamil Ahmed 2011 Pakistani English
4996 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
5003 Feel Free Zadie Smith 2018 British English
5010 Zone One Colson Whitehead 2011 American English
5012 The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride 2016 Irish English
5018 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 2012 British English
5092 Amity and Prosperity Eliza Griswold 2018 American English
5116 Swamplandia! Karen Russell 2011 American English
5120 In The Night Of Time Antonio Muñoz Molina 2012 Spanish Spanish
5151 Midnight In Peking Paul French 2012 British English
5153 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5154 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
5167 Bad Feminist Roxane Gay 2014 American English
5187 Stay True Hua Hsu 2022 Chinese English
5249 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
5257 Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
5273 Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener 2020 American English
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5280 At Last Edward St Aubyn 2011 British English
5283 Strangers To Ourselves Rachel Aviv 2022 American English
5313 A General Theory Of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa 2012 Angolan Portuguese
5317 Eleanor And Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
5329 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English