Some of my favorite reads from the last decade, in no particular order.

Fiction

Fantasy

  • Warbreaker — Brandon Sanderson
  • Tress of the Emerald Sea — Brandon Sanderson
  • Mistborn Series — Brandon Sanderson
  • The Inheritance Cycle — Christopher Paolini
  • Arc of the Scythe Series — Neal Shusterman
  • The Five Kingdoms Series — Brandon Mull
  • Pendragon Series — D.J. MacHale
  • The Brotherband Chronicles — John Flanagan
  • Rot and Ruin Series — Jonathan Maberry

Sci-Fi

  • The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
  • Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card
  • Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card
  • Hyperion — Dan Simmons
  • Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
  • Recursion — Blake Crouch
  • Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
  • Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
  • Red Rising Series — Pierce Brown

Other

  • Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver
  • Trust — Hernan Diaz
  • The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
  • Water for Elephants — Sara Gruen
  • East of Eden — John Steinbeck
  • The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
  • The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
  • Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
  • The Green Mile — Stephen King
  • Roma Series — Steven Saylor
  • The Nightingale — Kristin Hannah
  • A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles

Nonfiction

Decision Making / Systems

  • Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock
  • Thinking in Bets — Annie Duke
  • Quit — Annie Duke
  • Same as Ever — Morgan Housel
  • The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Drunkard's Walk — Leonard Mlodinow
  • The Scout Mindset — Julia Galef
  • How Asia Really Works — Joe Studwell
  • How the World Really Works — Vaclav Smil
  • The End of the World Is Just the Beginning — Peter Zeihan
  • Saving Capitalism — Robert Reich
  • Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari

Philosophy / Ethics

  • Ethics: A Very Short Introduction — Simon Blackburn
  • The Consolations of Philosophy — Alain de Botton
  • How to Be Perfect — Michael Schur
  • Four Thousand Weeks — Oliver Burkeman
  • Everything is F*cked — Mark Manson
  • What We Owe the Future — William MacAskill
  • The Course of Love — Alain de Botton

Psychology / Human Nature

  • The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
  • I Don't Want to Talk About It — Terrence Real
  • Mating in Captivity — Esther Perel
  • Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone — Lori Gottlieb
  • The Coddling of the American Mind — Jonathan Haidt
  • How to Be Miserable — Randy Paterson

History / Society

  • The Splendid and the Vile — Erik Larson
  • Destiny and Power — Jon Meacham
  • Jesus and John Wayne — Kristin Kobes Du Mez
  • Under the Banner of Heaven — Jon Krakauer
  • In the Garden of Beasts — Erik Larson
  • Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker
  • The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson
  • Energy: A Human History — Richard Rhodes

Biography / Memoir

  • Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
  • Titan — Ron Chernow
  • Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
  • The Spy and the Traitor — Ben Macintyre
  • Undaunted Courage — Stephen Ambrose
  • Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy — Irving Stone

Money / Finance

  • The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
  • The Algebra of Wealth — Scott Galloway
  • Die With Zero — Bill Perkins
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich — Ramit Sethi
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
  • Scale — Geoffrey West

Self Improvement

  • Atomic Habits — James Clear
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson
  • Boundaries — John Townsend
  • What's Mine Is Yours — Rachel Botsman
  • Moral Ambition — Rutger Bregman

Other

  • The Art of Gathering — Priya Parker
  • Astonishments — Mary Oliver