The 99 Books That Molded And Changed Me This Decade

2010

  1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
  2. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  3. Room by Emma Donoghue
  4. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  5. Half a Life: A Memoir by Darin Strauss
  6. A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor

    2011
  7. Where She Went by Gayle Forman
  8. Divergent by Veronica Roth
  9. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
  10. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  11. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
  12. 11.22.63 by Stephen King

    2012
  13. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  14. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
  15. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
  16. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
  17. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  18. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
  19. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
  20. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

    2013
  21. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
  22. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  23. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  24. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  25. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
  26. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding

    2014
  27. Tease by Amanda Maciel
  28. An Unsuitable Princess by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
  29. Cress by Marissa Meyer
  30. The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
  31. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
  32. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
  33. Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
  34. King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
  35. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
  36. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
  37. Euphoria by Lily King
  38. The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick
  39. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  40. Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter by Lindsay Hardin Freeman
  41. Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
  42. Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
  43. You by Caroline Kepnes
  44. The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
  45. The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
  46. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    2015
  47. All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
  48. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
  49. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
  50. More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
  51. Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
  52. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
  53. Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
  54. Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
  55. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  56. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

    2016
  57. No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering by Clara Bensen
  58. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
  59. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
  60. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
  61. Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick
  62. Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives by Anna Kessel
  63. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
  64. The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla
  65. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge
  66. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
  67. They Can’t Kill Is All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

    2017
  68. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
  69. The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters by Nadiya Hussain
  70. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  71. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
  72. Geekerella by Ashley Poston
  73. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
  74. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  75. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
  76. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
  77. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
  78. I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin
  79. There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
  80. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
  81. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
  82. Harry Potter: A History of Magic by the British Library
  83. The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell

    2018
  84. Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
  85. Educated by Tara Westover
  86. Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee
  87. The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan
  88. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay
  89. Milkman by Anna Burns
  90. Little Do We Know by Tamara Ireland Stone
  91. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
  92. The Best American Short Stories 2018 edited by Roxane Gay
  93. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister
  94. A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

    2019
  95. Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together by Gaby Dunn
  96. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
  97. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
  98. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff
  99. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding my Place by Jackson Bird

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