100 Best Books of 2010-2015 by The Oyster Editors

100 Works 407,820 Books 22,944 Reviews ½ 3.9
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Dare Me (2012) by Megan Abbott
Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Life After Life (2013) by Kate Atkinson
The Middlesteins (2012) by Jami Attenberg
On Immunity: An Inoculation (2014) by Eula Biss
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012) by Katherine Boo
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (2013) by Daniel James Brown
How Music Works (2012) by David Byrne
Open City (2011) by Teju Cole
This Is How You Lose Her (2012) by Junot Díaz
All the Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan
A Hologram for the King (2012) by Dave Eggers
The Round House (2012) by Louise Erdrich
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (2010) by Danielle Evans
My Brilliant Friend (2011) by Elena Ferrante
The Unnamed (2010) by Joshua Ferris
Bossypants (2011) by Tina Fey
Thank You for Your Service (2013) by David Finkel
Gone Girl (2012) by Gillian Flynn
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain
Freedom (2010) by Jonathan Franzen
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014) by Atul Gawande
Bad Feminist: Essays (2014) by Roxane Gay
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011) by James Gleick
The Fault in Our Stars (2012) by John Green
The Magician King (2011) by Lev Grossman
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (2011) by Gabrielle Hamilton
Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception (2012) by Claudia Hammond
The Art of Fielding (2011) by Chad Harbach
The Girl on the Train (2015) by Paula Hawkins
Ten Thousand Saints (2011) by Eleanor Henderson
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (2014) by Jeff Hobbs
The Buried Giant (2015) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile (2013) by Nate Jackson
The Empathy Exams: Essays (2014) by Leslie Jamison
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman
11/22/63 (2011) by Stephen King
Redeployment (2014) by Phil Klay
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Flamethrowers (2013) by Rachel Kushner
Submergence (2011) by J. M. Ledgard
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (2015) by Jill Leovy
10:04 (2014) by Ben Lerner
Every Day (2012) by David Levithan
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (2014) by Michael Lewis
We Were Liars (2014) by E. Lockhart
Sidewalks (2010) by Valeria Luiselli
Station Eleven (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel
Bring Up the Bodies (2012) by Hilary Mantel
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013) by Eimear McBride
The Good Lord Bird (2013) by James McBride
C (2010) by Tom McCarthy
The Son (2013) by Philipp Meyer
Those Guys have all the Fun: Inside the world of ESPN (2011) by James Andrew Miller
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) by David Mitchell
Bark: Stories (2014) by Lorrie Moore
Home (2012) by Toni Morrison
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Dear Life (2012) by Alice Munro
Skippy Dies (2010) by Paul Murray
Evil and the Mask (2010) by Fuminori Nakamura
Everything I Never Told You (2014) by Celeste Ng
The Tiger's Wife (2011) by Téa Obreht
Before I Fall (2010) by Lauren Oliver
Boy, Snow, Bird (2014) by Helen Oyeyemi
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (2012) by Richard Lloyd Parry
The Imperfectionists (2010) by Tom Rachman
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) by Claudia Rankine
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (2012) by Tom Reiss
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013) by Mary Roach
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (2011) by Jon Ronson
Eleanor and Park (2012) by Rainbow Rowell
Swamplandia! (2011) by Karen Russell
Tenth of December: Stories (2013) by George Saunders
Cleopatra: A Life (2010) by Stacy Schiff
Adam (2014) by Ariel Schrag
Swimming Studies (2012) by Leanne Shapton
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life (2011) by Charles J. Shields
I'll Be Right There (2010) by Kyung-sook Shin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012) by Robin Sloan
Just Kids (2010) by Patti Smith
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) by Zadie Smith
NW (2012) by Zadie Smith
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (2012) by Andrew Solomon
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (2013) by Amy Stewart
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012) by Cheryl Strayed
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) by Cheryl Strayed
Pulphead: Essays (2011) by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (2011) by Laini Taylor
The Isle of Youth: Stories (2013) by Laura Van den Berg
Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer
The Sound of Things Falling (2011) by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Men We Reaped (2013) by Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones (2011) by Jesmyn Ward
The Interestings (2013) by Meg Wolitzer
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (2013) by Lawrence Wright
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) by Charles Yu

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