Our current decade has brought in some great recent reads — see our picks here Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

In celebration of PEOPLE’s 50th anniversary, PEOPLE staffers are looking back on some of their favorite books of the decade ... cemented her as one of the best writers of her generation.

From feminist memoirs to compelling fiction, Team Stylist celebrates the literature – and remarkable women who wrote them – that have shaped the last 10 years: a significant decade for women.

These books represent the trends that fantasy will ... undergo significant development before the story is through. The past decade has seen authors deliver works that achieve all this and more ...

The gradual shift from their work to the best fantasy books of the past decade, including the works of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas, and R.F. Kuang, is fascinating to examine, and the exceptional ...