A list of the best books I read in the last 10 years (possible because of my slightly-compulsive habit of recording every single book I’ve ever read). Chosen for a variety of reasons: drawing me into the story so much that I missed subway stops, haunting me even years after, making me feel a certain way about the world (hopeful, gracious, sad, angry, and/or wistful), making me laugh, being just a good ol’ yarn.
The Painted Veil, William Somerset Maugham (2013)
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (2014)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck (2015)
On Such a Full Sea, Chang Rae-Lee (2015)
Americanah, Chimamanda Adichie (2015)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2015)
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (2016)
Beauty is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan (2016)
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (2017)
The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú (2017)
Circe, Madeline Miller (2018)
Little, Edward Carey (2018)
Underland, Robert Macfarlane (2019)
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell (2019)
The Mercies, Kiran Millwood Hargrave (2019)
*H = humble