It seems Realms of My Mind has carried this BookTok Trend over to Bookbloggers (checkout the lists compiled by both imyril and My World of Books)! Before this “trend,” I was thinking over my favorites from previous years. Keep in mind I started using “book apps” such as Goodreads and Library Thing (and later StoryGraph) after I started my blog. So, I had to think back on what my favorites from previous years were based on the books I read and enjoyed and then looking up the year of their release. It was an interesting process thinking back to what my favorites were from previous years.
These books are still some of my all-time favorite reads. As you’ll see, they are NOT all from the speculative fiction genre. That being said, I hope you’ll read some of these books in the near future and/or let me know what you thought of them.
2012
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
2013
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
2014
Mists of Eria, #2: Bound to the Elvin King by Lisa Kumar
2015
Ayumi’s Violin by Mariko Tatsumoto
2016
March (Trilogy) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illustrator)
2017
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
2018
Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
2019
The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan
2020
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
2021
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
What have been some of your favorite books from the last 10 years?
Some great picks on here! I really need to finish the Broken Earth trilogy, I only read book one!
What are you waiting for?! FINISH THE TRILOGY!!!
Love your picks. I’ve been debating recently about the next book after Gutter Prayer because I’m curious about the gods.
I think I’ll do a post like this too, actually.
“The Shadow Saint” is an amazing follow up to “The Gutter Prayer.” Keep in mind that it’s a world-building book.
I’m looking forward to reading your list!
I’m thrilled that Bound to the Elvin King made your list! Thanks so much!
I still enjoy re-reading that book!
Quite a diverse range of books here! I’m planning to finally pick up BLACK SUN before the end of the year. My sister is reading it now, so that is motivating me… I did a post like this in 2019 (https://fallingletters.ca/2019/05/favourite-books-released-ten-years-ttt.html). Almost all my picks were speculative fiction! Some of my favourites I listed were WHITE IS FOR WITCHING by Helen Oyeyemi and UPROOTED by Naomi Novic.
I do read other genres from time-to-time, but I remember enjoying those books a lot; and, they happened to be released during those years.