Year-End Lists

Emily Barnett: Top 10 Films of 2018, as published by Les Inrockuptibles in no order

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

• A Paris Education
  Jean-Paul Civeyrac
• Leto
  Kirill Serebrennikov
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• The House That Jack Built
  Lars von Trier
• Girl
  Lukas Dhont
• The Trouble with You
  Pierre Salvadori
• Climax
  Gaspar Noé
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Amanda
  Mikhaël Hers

This list contributes to:

• Les Inrocks: Top 10 Films of 2018

Les Inrockuptibles: Top 10 Films of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Leto
   Kirill Serebrennikov
2. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
   Abdellatif Kechiche
3. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
4. Sorry Angel
   Christophe Honoré
5. A Paris Education
   Jean-Paul Civeyrac
6. High Life
   Claire Denis
7. The House That Jack Built
   Lars von Trier
8. The Trouble with You
   Pierre Salvadori
9. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
10. The Wild Boys
    Bertrand Mandico

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Les Inrocks: Emily Barnett: Top 10 Films of 2018
• Les Inrocks: Marilou Duponchel: Top 10 Films of 2018
• Les Inrocks: Murielle Joudet: Top 10 Films of 2018

Dan Chiasson: The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• Eye Level
  Jenny Xie
• The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

  1940-1956
  Sylvia Plath
• feeld
  Jos Charles
• Be With
  Forrest Gander
• Museum of the Americas
  J. Michael Martinez
• The Final Voicemails
  Max Ritvo
• Letters from Max

  A Book of Friendship
  Sarah Ruhl & Max Ritvo
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
  Terrance Hayes
• Like
  A.E. Stallings
• Drafts, Fragments, and Poems

  The Complete Poetry
  Joan Murray

Les Inrockuptibles: Top 50 Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Contre-Temps
   Flavien Berger
2. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
   Arctic Monkeys
3. Wanderer
   Cat Power
4. Little Dark Age
   MGMT
5. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
6. Tell Me How You Really Feel
   Courtney Barnett
7. ye
   Kanye West
8. Lost & Found
   Jorja Smith
9. Les rescapés
   Miossec
10. Broken Politics
    Neneh Cherry
11. Cavernes
    Perez
12. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
13. La fragilité
    Dominique A
14. Radiate
    Jeanne Added
15. Somnium
    Jacco Gardner
16. Lush
    Snail Mail
17. Jeannine
    Lomepal
18. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
19. Testing
    A$AP Rocky
20. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
21. Superorganism
    Superorganism
22. Songs of Praise
    Shame
23. The Dog and the Future
    Agar Agar
24. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
25. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
26. Jassbusters
    Connan Mockasin
27. Daytona
    Pusha T
28. Insecure Men
    Insecure Men
29. Superior State
    Rendez Vous
30. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
31. Il Francese
    Jean-Louis Murat
32. Une main lave l'autre
    Alpha Wann
33. Lithopédion
    Damso
34. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
35. Always Ascending
    Franz Ferdinand
36. Dream Wife
    Dream Wife
37. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
38. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
39. Minus
    Daniel Blumberg
40. Freedom’s Goblin
    Ty Segall
41. NASIR
    Nas
42. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
43. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
44. Qualm
    Helena Hauff
45. Bisous
    Myth Syzer
46. Freedom
    Amen Dunes
47. Care for Me
    Saba
48. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
49. XEU
    Vald
50. Image au mur
    Grand Blanc

Smithsonian: Favorite Books of 2018, as selected individually by Smithsonian scholars

[see also 2019]

• Light of the Stars

  Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
  Adam Frank
• The Good Neighbor

  The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
  Maxwell King
• Tinker to Evers to Chance

  The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America
  David Rapp
• Care Work

  Dreaming Disability Justice
  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• The Library Book
  Susan Orlean
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History
  Ronald Scott Vasile
• Our Germans

  Project Paperclip and the National Security State
  Brian E. Crim
• Mourning
  Eduardo Halfon
• Chesapeake Requiem

  A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
  Earl Swift

KCRW: Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020]

1. Heaven and Earth
   Kamasi Washington
2. Good Thing
   Leon Bridges
3. Con Todo El Mundo
   Khruangbin
4. For Ever
   Jungle
5. God’s Favorite Customer
   Father John Misty
6. El Mal Querer
   Rosalía
7. Sex & Food
   Unknown Mortal Orchestra
8. Oxnard
   Anderson .Paak
9. Geography
   Tom Misch
10. Blood
    Rhye

Christopher Borrelli: 10 Best Books of 2018, as published by The Chicago Tribune

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

Fiction

• Motherhood
  Sheila Heti
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• X-Men

  Grand Design
  Ed Piskor
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• Heads of the Colored People
  Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Nonfiction

• Boom Town

  The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis
  Sam Anderson
• This Land

  America, Lost and Found
  Dan Barry
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• Rising

  Dispatches from the New American Shore
  Elizabeth Rush
• Feel Free
  Zadie Smith

Eric Kohn: Best Movies of 2018, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012]

1. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
3. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
4. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
5. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
6. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
7. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
8. Madeline’s Madeline
   Josephine Decker
9. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
10. Free Solo
    Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
11. Widows
    Steve McQueen
12. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
13. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
14. Border
    Ali Abbasi
15. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
16. We the Animals
    Jeremiah Zagar
17. Vox Lux
    Brady Corbet
18. Paddington 2
    Paul King

The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2018

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• The Perfect Nanny
  Leila Slimani
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• Washington Black
  Esi Edugyan

Nonfiction

• American Prison

  A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
  Shane Bauer
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• How to Change Your Mind

  What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• Small Fry
  Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Bustle: Best Books of 2018, as separate Fiction and Nonfiction lists

[see also 2020]

Fiction

• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• An American Marriage
  Tayari Jones
• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Washington Black
  Esi Edugyan
• Give Me Your Hand
  Megan Abbott
• The Friend
  Sigrid Nunez
• The Kiss Quotient
  Helen Hoang
• Motherhood
  Sheila Heti
• Tin Man
  Sarah Winman
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Proposal
  Jasmine Guillory
• Heads of the Colored People
  Nafissa Thompson-Spires
• Those Who Knew
  Idra Novey
• Severance
  Ling Ma
• The Poppy War
  R.F. Kuang
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon
• Melmoth
  Sarah Perry
• How Long 'til Black Future Month?
  N.K. Jemisin
• The Pisces
  Melissa Broder
• The Golden State
  Lydia Kiesling
• Crudo
  Olivia Laing
• Kudos
  Rachel Cusk
• Spinning Silver
  Naomi Novik
• Convenience Store Woman
  Sayaka Murata
• Fruit of the Drunken Tree
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Where the Crawdads Sing
  Delia Owens
• Vengeful
  V.E. Schwab

Nonfiction

• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  Michelle McNamara
• The Recovering

  Intoxication and Its Aftermath
  Leslie Jamison
• Heart Berries
  Terese Marie Mailhot
• Heartland

  A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Good and Mad

  The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
  Rebecca Traister
• Dead Girls

  Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
  Alice Bolin
• All You Can Ever Know
  Nicole Chung
• Sick
  Porochista Khakpour
• Feel Free
  Zadie Smith
• Seduction

  Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
  Karina Longworth
• One Person, No Vote

  How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
  Carol Anderson
• The Library Book
  Susan Orlean
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama
• These Truths

  A History of the United States
  Jill Lepore
• The Poison Squad

  One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  Deborah Blum
• Small Fry
  Lisa Brennan-Jobs
• And Now We Have Everything

  On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
  Meaghan O'Connell
• Monsoon Mansion
  Cinelle Barnes
• Eloquent Rage

  A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
  Brittney C. Cooper
• Can You Tolerate This?
  Ashleigh Young
• Tell Me More

  Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
  Kelly Corrigan
• The Death of Truth

  Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
  Michiko Kakutani
• What If This Were Enough?
  Heather Havrilesky
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo