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Must-Read Fiction of the Last 15 Years

One book each, and it had to be recent: what r/suggestmeabook named when asked for the single must-read novel of the last 10–15 years.

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0015×2022Demon Copperhead★ Goodreads · Barbara Kingsolver · r/suggestmeabook
0024×2021Small Things Like These★ Goodreads · Claire Keegan · r/suggestmeabook
0033×201111/22/63★ Goodreads · Stephen King · r/suggestmeabook
0043×2014Station Eleven★ Goodreads · Emily St. John Mandel · r/suggestmeabook
0053×2015The Library at Mount Char★ Goodreads · Scott Hawkins · r/suggestmeabook
0063×1998The Poisonwood Bible★ Goodreads · Barbara Kingsolver · r/suggestmeabook
0072×2016A Gentleman in Moscow★ Goodreads · Amor Towles · r/suggestmeabook
0082×2014All the Light We Cannot See★ Goodreads · Anthony Doerr · r/suggestmeabook
0092×2021Cloud Cuckoo Land★ Goodreads · Anthony Doerr · r/suggestmeabook
0102×2009Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead★ Goodreads · Olga Tokarczuk · r/suggestmeabook
0112×2017Lincoln in the Bardo★ Goodreads · George Saunders · r/suggestmeabook
0122×2017Pachinko★ Goodreads · Min Jin Lee · r/suggestmeabook
0132×2021Project Hail Mary★ Goodreads · Andy Weir · r/suggestmeabook
0142×2000The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay★ Goodreads · Michael Chabon · r/suggestmeabook
0152×2017The Heart's Invisible Furies★ Goodreads · John Boyne · r/suggestmeabook
0162×2012The Neapolitan Novels★ Goodreads · Elena Ferrante · r/suggestmeabook
0172×2018The Overstory★ Goodreads · Richard Powers · r/suggestmeabook
0182×2011Wool★ Goodreads · Hugh Howey · r/suggestmeabook
0191×1995A Fine Balance★ Goodreads · Rohinton Mistry · r/suggestmeabook
0201×2008Anathem★ Goodreads · Neal Stephenson · r/suggestmeabook
0211×2001Atonement★ Goodreads · Ian McEwan · r/suggestmeabook
0221×2014Being Mortal★ Goodreads · Atul Gawande · r/suggestmeabook
0231×2018Circe★ Goodreads · Madeline Miller · r/suggestmeabook
0241×2016Commonwealth★ Goodreads · Ann Patchett · r/suggestmeabook
0251×2017Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine★ Goodreads · Gail Honeyman · r/suggestmeabook
0261×2007Flights★ Goodreads · Olga Tokarczuk · r/suggestmeabook
0271×2019Greenwood★ Goodreads · Michael Christie · r/suggestmeabook
0281×2016Homegoing★ Goodreads · Yaa Gyasi · r/suggestmeabook
0291×2021Klara and the Sun★ Goodreads · Kazuo Ishiguro · r/suggestmeabook
0301×2024Nuclear War: A Scenario★ Goodreads · Annie Jacobsen · r/suggestmeabook
0311×1993Parable of the Sower★ Goodreads · Octavia E. Butler · r/suggestmeabook
0321×2020Piranesi★ Goodreads · Susanna Clarke · r/suggestmeabook
0331×2024Playground★ Goodreads · Richard Powers · r/suggestmeabook
0341×2022Remarkably Bright Creatures★ Goodreads · Shelby Van Pelt · r/suggestmeabook
0351×2022Sea of Tranquility★ Goodreads · Emily St. John Mandel · r/suggestmeabook
0361×2018Severance★ Goodreads · Ling Ma · r/suggestmeabook
0371×2003Shantaram★ Goodreads · Gregory David Roberts · r/suggestmeabook
0381×2020Shuggie Bain★ Goodreads · Douglas Stuart · r/suggestmeabook
0391×2021Still Life★ Goodreads · Sarah Winman · r/suggestmeabook
0401×2017The Bear and the Nightingale★ Goodreads · Katherine Arden · r/suggestmeabook
0411×2012The Dog Stars★ Goodreads · Peter Heller · r/suggestmeabook
0421×2015The Fifth Season★ Goodreads · N.K. Jemisin · r/suggestmeabook
0431×2024The God of the Woods★ Goodreads · Liz Moore · r/suggestmeabook
0441×2013The Goldfinch★ Goodreads · Donna Tartt · r/suggestmeabook
0451×2009The House of Special Purpose★ Goodreads · John Boyne · r/suggestmeabook
0461×2011The Martian★ Goodreads · Andy Weir · r/suggestmeabook
0471×2019The Nickel Boys★ Goodreads · Colson Whitehead · r/suggestmeabook
0481×2016The Power★ Goodreads · Naomi Alderman · r/suggestmeabook
0491×2005The Power of the Dog★ Goodreads · Don Winslow · r/suggestmeabook
0501×2011The Song of Achilles★ Goodreads · Madeline Miller · r/suggestmeabook
0511×2007The Terror★ Goodreads · Dan Simmons · r/suggestmeabook
0521×2023The Will of the Many★ Goodreads · James Islington · r/suggestmeabook
0531×2018There There★ Goodreads · Tommy Orange · r/suggestmeabook
0541×2006We, the Drowned★ Goodreads · Carsten Jensen · r/suggestmeabook

How this was counted. Counted by distinct redditor. The question put a date range on the answer, which no other list here does — so this is the only tally that shows what a crowd rates among books it has only recently read, rather than ones it has lived with for decades. Several people broke the rule anyway (Atonement, The Poisonwood Bible, Parable of the Sower all predate the window); those are kept, since they're still what someone answered.