LitHub's Best Novels of the Decade 2010-2019

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The very best novels written and published in English between 2010 and 2019 voted by the Literary Hub staff.
1
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,182 members
398 reviews
4.1
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The Tiger's Wife
by Téa Obreht
6,026 members
354 reviews
½ 3.5
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3
The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
4,748 members
341 reviews
3.9
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4
The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
3,037 members
222 reviews
3.8
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5
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
2,550 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
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6
The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
2,405 members
85 reviews
½ 3.7
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7
Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
2,220 members
129 reviews
3.9
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8
The Flamethrowers
by Rachel Kushner
1,927 members
91 reviews
½ 3.5
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9
The Woman Upstairs
by Claire Messud
1,774 members
132 reviews
½ 3.4
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10
All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews
1,512 members
70 reviews
4.1
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11
An Unnecessary Woman
by Rabih Alameddine
1,465 members
95 reviews
4
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12
10:04
by Ben Lerner
1,133 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
C
by Tom McCarthy
1,074 members
42 reviews
½ 3.3
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14
Imagine Me Gone
by Adam Haslett
1,057 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
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15
Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
1,043 members
53 reviews
½ 4.3
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16
Inland
by Téa Obreht
975 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
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17
In the Distance
by Hernan Diaz
960 members
41 reviews
3.9
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18
Mr. Splitfoot
by Samantha Hunt
769 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
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19
Solar Bones
by Mike McCormack
556 members
25 reviews
3.9
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20
Duplex: A Novel
by Kathryn Davis
311 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
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21
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,224 members
494 reviews
4
22
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
11,069 members
447 reviews
4.2
23
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
10,832 members
366 reviews
½ 3.7
24
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
9,837 members
552 reviews
½ 3.7
25
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,600 members
343 reviews
4.2
26
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
7,621 members
296 reviews
4.1
27
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,237 members
321 reviews
½ 4.3
28
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
6,496 members
332 reviews
4.1
29
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,156 members
180 reviews
3.9
30
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
5,008 members
212 reviews
4.1
31
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
4,997 members
195 reviews
½ 3.6
32
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,366 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
33
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
4,074 members
144 reviews
3.8
34
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
3,597 members
181 reviews
3.9
35
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
3,408 members
253 reviews
4.1
36
Milkman
by Anna Burns
3,029 members
145 reviews
½ 3.7
37
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
2,447 members
155 reviews
½ 3.7
38
Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
1,413 members
87 reviews
3.2
39
Margaret the First
by Danielle Dutton
448 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5