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Slate Best Books of the Year by year

Slate Best Books of the Year in our archive: 140 books across 14 years, 2012 to 2025.

  1. 202510 books
  2. 202410 books
  3. 202310 books
  4. 202210 books
  5. 202110 books
  6. 202010 books
  7. 201910 books
  8. 201810 books
  9. 201710 books
  10. 201610 books
  11. 201510 books
  12. 201410 books
  13. 201310 books
  14. 201210 books

About the Slate Best Books of the Year

One list a year: Slate's own top books of the year, stored as category Best Books. 2012-2014 are the Slate Book Review Top 10, picked by the Book Review's editors. 2015-2025 are book critic Laura Miller's 10 best (or favorite) books of the year. 2006-2011 are missing: Slate ran only staff picks pieces then, where writers named books they enjoyed, often older titles, so they are left out. Also left out: the yearly Slate staff picks, Overlooked Books, Dan Kois's and other critics' personal lists (Katy Waldman, Mark O'Connell), and audiobook, comics and book-jacket lists. All lists come from slate.com pages; none is ranked. Two author names misspelled on the page are corrected (Ottessa Moshfegh 2018, Michelle de Kretser 2022).

Organization: Slate. Official site (opens in a new tab)