Best Books of the Decade

Since everybody is doing “decade” lists on the internet along with year end lists, I thought I’d look back on my favorite books of the decade. To qualify, they had to be on my “best of year” list on Goodreads, I have to own them, they impacted me in ways I still remember, and they garnered multiple re-reads.  Some of these books and series are responsible for huge book hangovers and the inability to let go of them. Others were read right when I needed them.

The Queen of Attolia – Megan Whalen Turner

Magic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews

The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater

Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins

A Conspiracy of Kings – Megan Whalen Turner

Song of Scarabaeus – Sara Creasy

Lady of the Glen – Jennifer Roberson

Easy – Tammara Webber

Master of Crows – Grace Draven

Binding the Shadows – Jenn Bennett

Written in Red – Anne Bishop

Every Breath – Ellie Marney (entire series)

One Plus One – Jojo Moyes

The Road Home – Ellen Emerson White

Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell

Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo (entire series)

Nimona – Noelle Stevenson

A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab (entire series)

Den of Wolves – Juliet Marillier

Death Wears a Mask – Ashley Weaver

Revolution – Jennifer Donnelly

Dark Minds – Michelle Diener

Madam, Will You Talk? – Mary Stewart

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me – Mariana Zapata

White Hot – Ilona Andrews

The Firebird – Susanna Kearsley

Wait For It – Mariana Zapata

The Opposite of You – Rachel Higginson

Letters to the Lost – Brigid Kemmerer

Storm Cursed – Patricia Briggs

I look at this list and think there are a lot that are my favorite books that are missing. But then I realize that sometimes books get better after time and might not have been on my Best Of list back when I read it. Some of the books on the lists didn’t make this cut even though I liked them at the time I read them. And there are a few that I loved and might have re-read them over the years, but I don’t own them.