Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we spend a lot of time sorting books into stacks. It’s fun, if a little hard on the back. The key is to lift with your legs. Anyway, we occasionally stumble upon a particularly interesting sorting technique.
 
Such is the case with today’s collection, which features a sampling of the most beloved books from the past decade, arranged by publication year. We say “sampling” because it’s not a straight listing of the year’s most popular books. Instead, it’s a representative collection of the books that your fellow readers are currently reading (or perhaps rereading) and recommending. 
 
As such, this collection folds in sleepers and slow-burn hits—titles that didn’t necessarily blow up on initial publication but have since gained traction through BookTok, word of mouth, back-catalog explorations, etc. What they all have in common is that they are clearly beloved by readers.
 
Station Eleven is a good example. A literary sci-fi novel set in a post-pandemic Midwest, the book was plenty popular when it first came out in 2014. But it has remained popular for a full decade now. The excellent HBO series adaptation is part of the story, surely, but this continuing interest suggests that author Emily St. John Mandel’s novel speaks to readers in an enduring way.
 
Other books in this stack might include Taylor Jenkins Reid’s historical Hollywood novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo or Victoria Schwab’s perennially popular contemporary fantasy The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
 
Scroll down to browse the collection by calendar year, and if you want to dig deeper, click on the headline for each section (“Books Published in 2022”) to read the full list. If any individual book catches your eye, click the Want to Read button to add the title to your wish-list shelf.
 

Books Published in 2014