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
7671 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7671 14 Peter Clines 2012 American English
7671 Cinder Marissa Meyer 2012 American English
7671 The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater 2012 American English
7678 The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 2021 American English
7679 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
7684 Among Others Jo Walton 2011 British English
7684 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7689 Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton 2023 New Zealand English
7691 Quiet Flows The Una Faruk Šehić 2011 Bosnian Bosnian
7701 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones 2025 American English
7702 Beatlebone Kevin Barry 2015 Irish English
7705 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
7722 Unnatural Selection Mara Hvistendahl 2011 American English
7731 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
7734 Stag Dance Torrey Peters 2025 American English
7738 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
7742 Flesh David Szalay 2025 British English
7751 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
7753 Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi 2011 British English
7756 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
7760 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7761 Butterfly Swords Jeannie Lin 2010 Unknown English
7780 The Pairing Casey McQuiston 2024 Unknown English
7783 My Friends Hisham Matar 2024 British Unknown
7786 Lessons In Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 2022 American English
7787 Cold Enough For Snow Jessica Au 2022 Australian English
7798 Network Effect Martha Wells 2020 American English
7801 Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson 2016 American English
7806 Lick Kylie Scott 2013 Australian English
7811 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
7811 Shrill Lindy West 2016 American English
7831 A Spare Life Lidija Dimkovksa 2012 Macedonian Macedonian
7836 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
7838 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
7854 Heart, Be At Peace Donal Ryan 2024 Unknown English
7858 Phantom Evil Heather Graham Pozzessere 2011 American English
7858 The Scorpio Races Maggie Stiefvater 2011 American English
7869 The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers Bobby Seagull 2019 British English
7876 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7877 Blackout/All Clear Connie Willis 2010 American English
7882 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7885 Wifedom Anna Funder 2023 Unknown English
7889 The Dog Star Agneta Pleijel 2023 Swedish Swedish
7894 The Bone Clocks David Mitchell 2014 British English
7899 Spreadeagle Kevin Killian 2012 American English
7899 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
7899 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7902 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
7898 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah 2018 American English
7903 Locking Up Our Own James Forman 2017 American English
7907 That Deadman Dance Kim Scott 2010 Australian English
7919 Red Rising Pierce Brown 2014 American English
7919 Mr. Mercedes Stephen King 2014 American English
7922 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7921 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
7928 Abundance Ezra Klein 2025 American English
7941 Phantom Pain Wings Kim Hye-soon 2019 Korean Korean
7947 The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Tim Alberta 2024 Unknown English
7951 The Wide Wide Sea Hampton Sides 2024 Unknown English
7963 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
7976 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
7978 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
7979 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
7990 Greta And Valdin Rebecca K Reilly 2021 Unknown English
7996 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
7997 Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz 2016 British English
8003 Play Their Hearts Out George Dohrmann 2010 American English
8005 On The Move Oliver Sacks 2015 British English
8020 The Rise And Fall Of American Growth Robert J. Gordon 2016 American English
8019 The Story Of A Heart Rachel Clarke 2024 Unknown English
8021 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
8049 Red Queen Victoria Aveyard 2015 American English
8052 Neon Gods Katee Robert 2021 American English
8058 The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang 2019 American English
8059 Maniac Benjamin Labatut 2023 Chilean Spanish
8062 The Future Is History Masha Gessen 2017 Russian English
8060 The Anarchy William Dalrymple 2019 British English
8064 Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 2022 American English
8066 Bunny Mona Awad 2019 Canadian English
8067 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
8071 Taipei Tao Lin 2013 American English
8072 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8094 The Dictionary Of Lost Words Pip Williams 2020 Australian English
8100 How Not To Die Michael Greger, Gene Stone 2015 American English
8100 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8105 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8143 Carbide Andriy Lyubka 2014 Ukrainian Ukrainian
8143 Walker On Water Kristiina Ehin 2014 Estonian Estonian
8143 Night Circus And Other Stories Ursula Kovalyk 2014 Slovak Unknown
8143 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8143 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8168 One Day In December Josie Silver 2018 British English
8173 Life Keith Richards 2010 British English
8183 Alberta empfängt einen Liebhaber Birgit Vanderbeke 2023 German German
8184 Blacklands Belinda Bauer 2010 British English
8187 Questions Of Travel Michelle de Kretser 2012 Australian English
8190 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
8192 The Order Of Time Carlo Rovelli 2017 Italian Italian
8199 Ploile Amare Alexandru Vlad 2011 Romanian Romanian
8199 Acasă, pe Cîmpia Armaghedonului Marta Petreu 2011 Romanian Romanian
8211 Dark Emu Bruce Pascoe 2014 Australian English
8220 The Heart In Winter Kevin Barry 2024 Irish English
8223 Ordinary Human Failings Megan Nolan 2024 Irish English
8224 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 2021 American English
8225 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8226 We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor 2016 Unknown English
8226 Unsouled Will Wight 2016 American English
8230 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8229 Solito Javier Zamora 2022 Unknown English
8238 Beach Read Emily Henry 2020 American English
8253 Ghost Light Joseph O'Connor 2010 Irish English
8255 The Kraken King Meljean Brook 2014 American English
8257 Strangers In Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 American English
8259 Trespasses Louise Kennedy 2022 Irish English
8260 Diccionario Sánscrito Español Oscar Pujol 2011 Spanish Spanish
8260 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8267 A Caribbean Heiress In Paris Adriana Herrera 2022 American English
8267 Before I Let Go Kennedy Ryan 2022 American English