Made me the person I am today.Ģ015: Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli: This book played an incredibly large part in pushing me to come out as bi so ….
I cried all damn night reading it and then cried watching the movie and then I got into edge greyscale tumblr to work through my feelings. I read the whole series in two days and the fact it pretty much singlehandedly reminded me why I loved reading means it had to make the list.Ģ014: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green: You CANNOT underestimate the way this book impacted me at 14 years old. For about three years I didn’t read anything and this book/series is what got me back into reading. I cried all night while reading this and it holds a really special place in my heart.Ģ013: The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic: Here’s where we get into ~most influential~ and not ~best~ because a lot of Great books came out this year but … The Foxhole Court impacted me the most.
After reading this I wanted to read more and more non-fiction, and it hugely shaped my reading since 2016.Ģ012: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sāenz: This is one of the first queer YA books I ever read and it was one that meant so much to me. This series had a big impact on my reading taste as a young teen and was so influential this decade in general.Ģ011: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari: This is an incredibly popular book but it made the list because it is what got me into non-fiction. This was “my Harry Potter” in the sense that we used to go see the movies at midnight screenings when they came out. This is one of the first series I really got into, and one of the first fandoms. Even if they’re not the best books of the decade, they’re the ones that were theĢ010: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins: Even though this series came out before this decade, I feel I had to give it a mention, especially since I didn’t really start reading it until well after 2010. These aren’t necessarily the BEST books, but they are the ones that had the most impact on me – they shaped my reading/year/decade in some way and have stuck with me over the years.
Instead, I wanted to mark the most influential book in my life per year of release. Because I didn’t really note when I read books before 2016, it would be too difficult that way. These are sorted by the year of release, not the year I read them. Everyone is doing their end of the decade lists and I wanted to join in, by talking about the ten most important books of the decade – one for each year. Hi all ! Not only is it the end of the year, as we all know it’s also the end of the decade. It is so beautifully written and sung, makes me feel nostalgic, and is a perfect intro to this album. The 1 definitely is one of my favourite songs of the album.