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The 57 Best Books of the Decade

Samantha Leach

December 24, 2019 at 9:30 AM

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

The Cuckoo's Calling

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Costalegre by Courtney Maum

When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

There, There by Tommy Orange

The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

What You Have Heard is True by Carolyn Forché

Hunger by Roxanne Gay

Olio by Tyehimba Jess

WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier

White Fur by Jardine Libaire

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Ohio by Stephen Markley

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline

An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Heartland by Sarah Smarsh

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Art and Madness by Anne Roiphe

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

The Seas by Samantha Hunt

So Sad Today by Melissa Broder

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Girls by Emma Cline

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey

The Soul of America by Jon Meacham

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

With nominations from well-renowned readers like Jenna Bush Hager, Emma Roberts, Nancy Pelosi, and more.

Originally Appeared on Glamour