Best of Last 10 Years
What survived the last ten years. 2016 to now.
111 essential works
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
2016 · South Korea
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
2016 · USA
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Flights
Olga Tokarczuk
2018 · Poland
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
2017 · USA
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Milkman
Anna Burns
2018 · Northern Ireland/UK
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The Overstory
Richard Powers
2018 · USA
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Normal People
Sally Rooney
2018 · Ireland
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
2022 · USA
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
2022 · USA
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James
Percival Everett
2024 · USA
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
2016 · Ghana/USA
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
2017 · USA/Korea
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
2017 · USA
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Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
2020 · UK/Scotland
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The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
2019 · Canada
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Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
2023 · Ireland
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
2020 · UK/Ireland
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
2018 · USA
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
2020 · UK
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The Promise
Damon Galgut
2021 · South Africa
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
2022 · Sri Lanka
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
2023 · USA
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Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi
2019 · Oman
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Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
2022 · India
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At Night All Blood Is Black
David Diop
2020 · France/Senegal
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Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
2023 · Bulgaria
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Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck
2024 · Germany
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The Years
Annie Ernaux
2017 · France
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The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
2019 · Japan
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
2018 · Japan
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
2021 · UK
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The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin
2016 · USA
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There There
Tommy Orange
2018 · USA
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The Power
Naomi Alderman
2016 · UK
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The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
2020 · USA
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
2021 · USA
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
2022 · USA
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Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
2020 · USA
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
2016 · USA
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019 · USA
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
2020 · USA
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Babel
R.F. Kuang
2022 · USA/UK
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Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
2021 · USA
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The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
2023 · Ireland
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
2021 · Ireland
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
2018 · Canada
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The New Wilderness
Diane Cook
2020 · USA
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Matrix
Lauren Groff
2021 · USA
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Weather
Jenny Offill
2020 · USA
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A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet
2020 · USA
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
2023 · UK
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
2017 · India
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The Book of Form & Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
2021 · USA/Canada
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Brotherless Night
V.V. Ganeshananthan
2023 · USA/Sri Lanka
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
2021 · USA
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Less
Andrew Sean Greer
2017 · USA
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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
2020 · UK
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Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
2022 · South Korea
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The Employees
Olga Ravn
2020 · Denmark
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
2020 · Japan
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Kudos
Rachel Cusk
2018 · UK/Canada
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Olga Dies Dreaming
Xóchitl González
2022 · USA
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
2023 · New Zealand
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Butter Honey Pig Bread
Francesca Ekwuyasi
2020 · Nigeria/Canada
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The Animals in That Country
Laura Jean McKay
2020 · Australia
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Chemistry
Weike Wang
2017 · USA
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Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
2021 · USA
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Wellness
Nathan Hill
2023 · USA
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White Tears
Hari Kunzru
2017 · UK/USA
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The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut
2023 · Chile
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Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
2022 · USA
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Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
2022 · Canada
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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
2022 · USA
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The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
2020 · Netherlands
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Silence Is My Mother Tongue
Sulaiman Addonia
2019 · Eritrea/UK
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Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow
2022 · USA
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Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen
2021 · USA
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Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
2021 · Ireland/UK
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Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
2022 · USA
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Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
2021 · USA/Italy
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Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
2022 · New Zealand
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The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
2021 · USA
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Animal
Lisa Taddeo
2021 · USA/UK
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The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
2024 · Netherlands
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
2024 · Belgium
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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
2023 · United States
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
2015 · USA
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The Sellout
Paul Beatty
2015 · USA
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The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
2015 · Italy
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Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
2017 · Pakistan/UK
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The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
2018 · USA
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
2019 · USA
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Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
2019 · Mexico/USA
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
2020 · USA
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No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
2021 · USA
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
2021 · USA
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The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
2022 · USA
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North Woods
Daniel Mason
2023 · USA
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Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
2024 · USA
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All Fours
Miranda July
2024 · USA
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
2012 · Italy
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
2014 · Canada
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
2013 · USA
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How to Be Both
Ali Smith
2014 · UK
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
2014 · Jamaica
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 · USA/Vietnam
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Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
2013 · UK
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10:04
Ben Lerner
2014 · USA
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Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
2021 · USA
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The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
2018 · USA
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
2017 · Mexico
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