The 2010s passed by in the blink of an eye. The most satisfying way I can measure all that time slipping through my fingers is through books: What did I read that I loved each year?
So I've looked back at my Goodreads account, and even pried open my old Library Thing account, to check out what I read each year for the last decade. I've compiled the books and audiobooks I liked the most – not the ones I rated most highly, but what I look back on fondly or that left a lingering impression.
My Favorite Books Read in 2010
*The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
*The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
*Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
*All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
*The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
*The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
My Favorite Books Read in 2011
*Bossypants by Tina Fey
*Naked by David Sedaris
*Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America by Richard Zoglin
*On Beauty by Zadie Smith
My Favorite Books Read in 2012
*The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
*The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
*The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
*Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
*A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
My Favorite Books Read in 2013
*The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
*Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
*Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
*11/22/63 by Stephen King
*To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
*The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
*A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
*The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
My Favorite Books Read in 2014
*The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
*This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection by Carol Burnett
*A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
*Johnny Carson by Harry Bushkin
*The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
*Letting Go of God by Julia Sweeney
*Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
*God Said, Ha! A Memoir by Julia Sweeney
*The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
My Favorite Books Read in 2015
*Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
*Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (audiobook read by Wil Wheaton)
*A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
*Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
*Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
*The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
*Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
*VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Marta Quinn with Gavin Edwards
*So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
*Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star by Fred Stoller
*All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
*Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow
*The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
*Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
*Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
*Just Kids by Patti Smith
My Favorite Books Read in 2016
*Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
*The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris
*Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
*I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum
*The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
*The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
*The Good Neighbour by Beth Miller
*The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
*We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
My Favorite Books Read in 2017
*News of the World by Paulette Giles
*The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
*The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown
*Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
*The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
*My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
*Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
*The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
*The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
*The Dry by Jane Harper
My Favorite Books Read in 2018
*The Power by Naomi Alderman
*Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan
*Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
*Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
*Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
*Less by Andrew Sean Greer
*Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
*The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
*Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
*Circe by Madeline Miller
*Them by Jon Ronson
*Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
*10% Happier by Dan Harris
*Calypso by David Sedaris
My Favorite Books Read in 2019
*Milkman by Anna Burns
*Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
*Educated by Tara Westover
*Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
*The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
*The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
*Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
*Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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