I’ve read about 500 books during the past decade. Way back in 2010, my reading ratio was 80% fiction and 20% nonfiction, but 10 years later, it’s closer to 50/50. Which made putting this list together a lot easier than I thought.
So without further ado, here are the novels and nonfiction tomes that I enjoyed the most during the 2010s. If you’re looking for something interesting to read, you can’t go wrong with one of these books.
(Note: Not all were released during the past decade.)
1. “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
2. “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
3. “11/22/63” by Stephen King
4. “The Golem and the Jinni” by Helene Wecker
5. “Dead Harvest” by Chris F. Holm
6. “The Girl Who Played With Fire” by Stieg Larsson
7. “Secrets From The Vinyl Cafe” by Stuart McLean
8. “Stories from the Vinyl Cafe 10th Anniversary Edition” by Stuart McLean
9. “Mr. Mercedes” trilogy by Stephen King
10. “N0S4A2” by Joe Hill
(Honorable mentions: “The Institute” by Stephen King, “The Outsider” by Stephen King, “The Red Notebook” by Antoine Laurain, “The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss, “The Uncommon Reader” by Alan Bennett, “Invasive” by Chuck Wendig, “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson, “The Year of Pleasures” by Elizabeth Berg and “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins)
1. “Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History” by Erik Larson
2. “Life’s That Way” by Jim Beaver
3. “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” by Michael Pollan
3. “The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland” by Jim DeFede
4. “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America” by Erik Larson
5. “The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century” by Kirk W. Johnson
6. “The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well” by Meik Wiking
7. “Tell Me Where It Hurts” by Dr. Nick Trout
8. “Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins” by Susan Casey
9. “My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business” by Dick Van Dyke
10. “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment” by A.J. Jacobs
(Honorable mentions: “Drama” by John Lithgow, “Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service” by Devin Leonard, “Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions” by Larry King, “One Summer: America, 1927” by Bill Bryson, “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson, “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean, “Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier” by Vincent Wyckoff and “Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses” by Bess Lovejoy)
