Top Books of the Decade

Now that my blog is 10 years old (seriously, how has it been 10 years?), I decided to choose my favorite books of the decade. First, I had to pull all my top ten lists from each there and then came the difficult part… I had to narrow down 100 books to 10! Looking at the list, fantasy is definitely my most favorite genre. And I love a good dark fairy tale-esque tale. I took many days, and this is what I came up with, in no particular order:

Top 10 Books of the Decade

1. The Magicians series by Lev Grossman (2012)
2. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
5. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
6. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
8. Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire
9. Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin
10. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

2011

1. Fables Series
2. Autumn and Autumn: The City by David Moody
3. The Affinity Bridge by George Mann
4. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
5. The Parasol Protectorate Series by Gail Carriger
6. The Walking Dead Series by Robert Kirkman
7. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
8. At the Scent of Water by Linda Nichols
9. Have Spacesuit—Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
10. The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall

2012

1. Fables: The Witches
2. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
3. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
4. Sunshine by Robin McKInley
5. Timeless by Gail Carriger
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
7. Allison Hewitt is Trapped / Sadie Walker is Stranded by Madeleine Roux
8. The Lost Hero / Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
9. His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
10. Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant

2013

1. A Song of Fire and Ice series (Books #1-3)
2. The Passage
3. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
4. Neverwhere
5. The Mark of Athena
6. The Book Thief
7. The Angel’s Game
8. The Lace Reader
9. Hyperbole and a Half
10. Me Before You

2014

1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

3. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro

4. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

5. Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

6. Washington by Ron Chernow

7. No Turning Back by Estelle Freedman

8. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

2015

1. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
2. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
3. Fire by Kristin Cashore
4. Dead Wake by Erik Larson
5. The Martian by Andy Weir
6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
7. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
8. Saga Vol. 1-4
9. First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
10. Furiously Happy by Jenny Larson

2016

1. The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4. Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
5. Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
7. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
8. Forevermore by Kristen Calihan
9. The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst
10. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

2017

1. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
2. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
3. You’re Doing a Great Job by Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn
4. The Wicked + The Divine series
5. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
6. Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
7. The Mummy by Anne Rice
8. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
9. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
10. A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner

2018

1. The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon
2. NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
3. Circe by Madeline Miller
4. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
5. Paper Girls Vol. 1-4
6. Every Heart a Doorway (and sequels) by Seanan McGuire
7. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
8. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
9. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
10. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

2019

1. Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
2. All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
3. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
4. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
5. Smoke Gets in You Eyes by Caitlyn Doughty
6. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 
7. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
8. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
9. The Wicked + The Divine comic series
10. Wilder Girls by Rory Power 

2020

1. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
2. Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
3. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4. 1776 by David McCullough
5. The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
7. The Deep by Rivers Solomon
8. The City We Became by NK Jemisin
9. Network Effect (and the rest of the Murderbot Series) by Martha Wells
10. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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