What's your 'Book of the Decade'?

I finished this book yesterday and started re reading today to see the book in a new light, now I know the fate of the characters. I have NEVER done that before.

The God of Small Things.

Written in 2007 I think but read by me starting in 2019 😊

I have put loads of these books on my wish list now, thank you Mumsnet

Reservoir 13
Home Fire
The Sellout
The Bone Clocks
The Essex Serpent

Anything but The Goldfinch!

Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd, a book has never ever made so much sense.

The Vagina Bible by Dr Jen Gunter. Would honestly recommend it to all, and I do!!

It's hard to imagine how old some books are when you love them so much! I had to google to make sure I was sticking to the last decade!

Mine would be:

The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Room by Emma Donoghue
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
Milkman by Anna Burns
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Looking forward to some wonderful reads in this coming decade

I am going to add 3 more, now l had time to check when they were published. These are in my top books of all times:

1. The Thousands Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
2. The White Tiger
3. Apple tree yard

Lots of great suggestions on the thread!

Sorry another utterly predictable vote for a Life after Life.

For me it's life after life, station 11 and the name of the wind.

I loved all 3 of those books. Brilliant thread OP lots more books added to my want to read list.

The Heart’s Invisible Furies.

ada that sounds great have shortlisted it to read.

For me it was 'all the light you cannot see', such a beautiful book.

While I loved and enjoyed The Goldfinch and Bring up the Bodies, my book of the decade would be East West Street by Philippe Sands. It’s about the development of the concepts of genocide and human rights leading up to the trials at the end of World War II. Written almost as a detective story, following the lives of the the two lawyers whose brilliant minds and family backgrounds forged these theories.

The A Song of Ice and Fire series (technically only a Dance With Dragons published this decade, but I came to the series late).

Has given me in my 30s and 40s what The Lord of the Rings gave me in my teens and twenties; a whole immersive world to escape into from this one. Hours and hours of reading and listening pleasure, and now even more hours of enjoyment listening to podcasts of other folk talking about the books.

Please, please George would you finish this wonderful thing you’ve created. This decade would be great if at all possible.

I suppose when I listed my best reads, I was thinking more of what I'd read in the last decade rather than when those books were actually published.

It looks like the Goldfinch is the mumsnet book of the decade, closely followed by the Kate Atkinsons.
I had a feeling a thousand splendid suns and the kite runner were older.

My one feels really young and childish compared to yours, but I love the Butterfly Cove series by Sarah Bennett. I don't know whether it's because of the happy memories associated with them, but I find them really touching without meaning to be.

I loved A Thousand Splendid Suns too - and All The Light We Cannot See.

Additionally I really enjoyed Circe, The Help, The Night Circus, This is Where I Am and The Shadow of the Wind - although not all of these were actually published in the 2010s, this was just the decade I read then in...

Damn! forgot Middlesex, loved that one too

The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Goldfinch
The Poisonwood Bible
Life After Life
The Blind Assassin
Star of The Sea
The Forgotten Garden
Atonement

To name but a few, we are all different, I hated Lincoln in The Bardo, thought it was one of the worst books I've attempted to read

The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker. A female retelling if the Greek-Trojan wars. I could not put it down. I also love The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005).

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt. Beautifully written and almost poetic in parts.

Burial Rites - Hannah Kent. Dark and riveting. Based on a true story of an Icelandic murder and reminiscent of Atwood's Alias Grace.

Station Eleven was ok......I prefer the dystopian worlds Atwood and Huxley write about. Won't be rushing out to buy her new novel published this year.

For me a thousand splendid suns and the kite runner. I also loved the hearts invisible furies.

Just ordered the goldfinch, life after life and all the light we cannot see :)

Also looking forward to reading some of the novels mentioned here.

Not life changing but I loved -

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
(Claire North)

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hard castle
(Stuart Turton)

Have only just realised how weirdly similar the titles are.

The Goldfinch. Fabulous.

(Wolf Hall too, but that was published in 2009.)