Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 100 Notable Books of 2018, Fiction and Nonfiction

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

Fiction

• An American Marriage
  Tayari Jones
• Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine
  Kevin Wilson
• Cherry
  Nico Walker
• Children of Blood and Bone
  Tomi Adeyemi
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• Conscience
  Alice Mattison
• Crudo
  Olivia Laing
• The Female Persuasion
  Meg Wolitzer
• Flights
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• French Exit
  Patrick deWitt
• Girls Burn Brighter
  Shobha Rao
• The Great Alone
  Kristin Hannah
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• How to Be Safe
  Tom McAllister
• If You Leave Me
  Crystal Hana Kim
• The Immortalists
  Chloe Benjamin
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon
• Killing Commendatore
  Haruki Murakami
• The Kiss Quotient
  Helen Hoang
• A Ladder to the Sky
  John Boyne
• Lake Success
  Gary Shteyngart
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• Love and Ruin
  Paula McLain
• The Mere Wife
  Maria Dahvana Headley
• A Million Drops
  Víctor del Árbol
• The Music Shop
  Rachel Joyce
• My Sister, the Serial Killer
  Oyinkan Braithwaite
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• November Road
  Lou Berney
• Only Child
  Rhiannon Navin
• The Pisces
  Melissa Broder
• The Poet X
  Elizabeth Acevedo
• Red Clocks
  Leni Zumas
• A River of Stars
  Vanessa Hua
• The Shakespeare Requirement
  Julie Schumacher
• The Shape of the Ruins
  Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• The Silence of the Girls
  Pat Barker
• Still Life with Monkey
  Katharine Weber
• Strike Your Heart
  Amélie Nothomb
• That Kind of Mother
  Rumaan Alam
• Theory of Bastards
  Audrey Schulman
• Transcription
  Kate Atkinson
• Upstate
  James Wood
• Warlight
  Michael Ondaatje
• What We Were Promised
  Lucy Tan
• When Katie Met Cassidy
  Camille Perri
• The Winter Soldier
  Daniel Mason
• You Think It, I'll Say It
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Your Duck Is My Duck
  Deborah Eisenberg

Nonfiction

• 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

  A Life-Changing List
  James Mustich
• Air Traffic

  A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
  Gregory Pardlo
• All You Can Ever Know
  Nicole Chung
• Amity and Prosperity

  One Family and the Fracturing of America
  Eliza Griswold
• The Apprentice

  Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
  Greg Miller
• Bad Blood

  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
  John Carreyrou
• Because We Are Bad

  OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
  Lily Bailey
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama
• Beneath a Ruthless Sun

  A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
  Gilbert King
• 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
• Calypso
  David Sedaris
• Chesapeake Requiem

  A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
  Earl Swift
• The Corrosion of Conservatism

  Why I Left the Right
  Max Boot
• Directorate S

  The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Steve Coll
• Dopesick

  Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
  Beth Macy
• Eager

  The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
  Ben Goldfarb
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Fear

  Trump in the White House
  Bob Woodward
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads

  A Story of War and What Comes After
  Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon
• A Higher Loyalty

  Truth, Lies, and Leadership
  James Comey
• How Democracies Die
  Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• How to Change Your Mind

  What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

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

  A History of Privacy in Modern America
  Sarah E. Igo
• The Lies That Bind

  Rethinking Identity
  Kwame Anthony Appiah
• A Life of My Own
  Claire Tomalin
• Look Alive Out There
  Sloane Crosley
• Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

  The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
  Colm Tóibín
• The Mirage Factory

  Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
  Gary Krist
• Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
  Craig Brown
• Presidents of War
  Michael Beschloss
• The Poisoned City

  Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
  Anna Clark
• Political Tribes

  Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
  Amy Chua
• Questioning Minds

  The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
  Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
• The Real Lolita

  The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
  Sarah Weinman
• Rising Out of Hatred

  The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
  Eli Saslow
• Russian Roulette

  The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
  Michael Isikoff and David Corn
• The Schoolhouse Gate

  Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
  Justin Driver
• Smoketown

  The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
  Mark Whitaker
• The Souls of Yellow Folk
  Wesley Yang
• The Spy and the Traitor

  The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
  Ben Macintyre
• These Truths

  A History of the United States
  Jill Lepore
• Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
  Wil Haygood
• We the Corporations

  How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
  Adam Winkler
• What Truth Sounds Like

  Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
  Michael Eric Dyson
• Why Baseball Matters
  Susan Jacoby
• Winners Take All

  The Elite Charade of Changing the World
  Anand Giridharadas
• The Wizard and the Prophet

  Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
  Charles C. Mann

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2018, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Call Them by Their True Names

  American Crises (and Essays)
  Rebecca Solnit

Finalists

• American Prison

  A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
  Shane Bauer
• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon
• Dopesick

  Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
  Beth Macy
• Heartland

  A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• The Road to Unfreedom

  Russia, Europe, America
  Timothy Snyder

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2018, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Severance
  Ling Ma

Finalists

• Halsey Street
  Naima Coster
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• Mourning
  Eduardo Halfon
• Heads of the Colored People
  Nafissa Thompson-Spires
• Tell the Machine Goodnight
  Katie Williams

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2018

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

Winner

• Milkman
  Anna Burns

Shortlist

• The Mars Room
  Rachel Kushner
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• The Long Take
  Robin Robertson
• Washington Black
  Esi Edugyan
• Everything Under
  Daisy Johnson

Longlist

• Snap
  Belinda Bauer
• Sabrina
  Nick Drnaso
• In Our Mad and Furious City
  Guy Gunaratne
• The Water Cure
  Sophie Mackintosh
• Warlight
  Michael Ondaatje
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• From a Low and Quiet Sea
  Donal Ryan

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2018

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

Winner

• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie

Shortlist

• Sight
  Jessie Greengrass
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• The Idiot
  Elif Batuman
• The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
  Imogen Hermes Gowar
• When I Hit You or a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
  Meena Kandasamy

Longlist

• A Boy in Winter
  Rachel Seiffert
• H(A)PPY
  Nicola Barker
• Three Things About Elsie
  Joanna Cannon
• Miss Burma
  Charmaine Craig
• Manhattan Beach
  Jennifer Egan
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
  Gail Honeyman
• Elmet
  Fiona Mozley
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  Arundhati Roy
• See What I Have Done
  Sarah Schmidt
• The Trick to Time
  Kit de Waal

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
3. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
4. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
5. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. Streetscapes [Dialogue]
   Heinz Emigholz
8. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
   Bruno Dumont
9. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
10. PROTOTYPE
    Blake Williams

Special Mentions

• Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  Frederick Wiseman
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Good Luck
  Ben Russell
• Araby
  João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa

Florence Almozini: Best Films of 2017, as published by The Village Voice as part of the Village Voice Film Poll

[see also 2022 • 2021]

• Nocturama
  Bertrand Bonello
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Square
  Ruben Östlund
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Human Surge
  Eduardo Williams
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes
• By the Time It Gets Dark
  Anocha Suwichakornpong
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Staying Vertical
  Alain Guiraudie
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo

This list contributes to:

• Village Voice Film Poll: Best Films of 2017

Village Voice Film Poll: Best Films of 2017 (as published by The Village Voice, comprised of votes from more than 100 critics)

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
6. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
7. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
8. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro
11. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
12. Twin Peaks: The Return
    David Lynch
13. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
14. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
15. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
15. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
17. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
18. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
19. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
20. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
21. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
22. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
23. The Post
    Steven Spielberg
24. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
25. Wormwood
    Errol Morris
26. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
26. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
28. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
29. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
30. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
31. Columbus
    Kogonada
32. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
33. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
34. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
35. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
36. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
36. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
38. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
39. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
40. The Human Surge
    Eduardo Williams
41. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
42. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
43. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
43. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
45. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
45. Logan
    James Mangold
47. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    S. Craig Zahler
47. Kedi
    Ceyda Torun
47. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
50. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
    Angela Robinson
50. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
50. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Mallory Andrews: Top 10 Films of 2017
• Village Voice Film Poll: Florence Almozini: Best Films of 2017

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017 (an annual poll of more than 400 critics, published by The Village Voice)

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Melodrama
   Lorde
5. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
6. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
7. Slowdive
   Slowdive
8. 4:44
   JAY-Z
9. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
10. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
11. Black Origami
    Jlin
12. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
13. Drunk
    Thundercat
14. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
15. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
16. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
17. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
18. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
19. Life Will See You Now
    Jens Lekman
19. Culture
    Migos
21. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
22. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
23. The OOZ
    King Krule
24. Process
    Sampha
25. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
26. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
27. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
28. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
29. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
29. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
31. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
32. Rainbow
    Ke$ha
33. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
34. Utopia
    Björk
35. All American Made
    Margo Price
36. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
37. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
38. I See You
    The xx
39. Capacity
    Big Thief
40. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
41. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
42. Guppy
    Charly Bliss
43. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
44. After Laughter
    Paramore
45. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
46. Freudian
    Daniel Caesar
46. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
48. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
49. Fin
    Syd
50. Whiteout Conditions
    The New Pornographers
51. War & Leisure
    Miguel
52. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
52. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
54. More Life
    Drake
55. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
56. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
56. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey
58. American Teen
    Khalid
59. Need to Feel Your Love
    Sheer Mag
60. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
60. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
62. The Hanged Man
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
62. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
64. Music for the Age of Miracles
    The Clientele
65. Plunge
    Fever Ray
65. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
65. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
68. Bells For the South Side
    Roscoe Mitchell
68. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
70. Prisoner
    Ryan Adams
71. reputation
    Taylor Swift
72. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
73. World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane
    Alice Coltrane
73. SweetSexySavage
    Kehlani
75. Fly or Die
    Jaimie Branch
76. For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986
    The Replacements
77. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
77. HNDRXX
    Future
79. Feel Your Feelings Fool!
    The Regrettes
79. Hippopotamus
    Sparks
79. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
82. Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Hitchcock
83. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
84. In Between
    The Feelies
85. The Courtneys II
    The Courtneys
85. Villains
    Queens of the Stone Age
87. Ash
    Ibeyi
87. Beach House 3
    Ty Dolla $ign
89. The Order of Time
    Valerie June
89. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
91. Number 1 Angel
    Charli XCX
91. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
91. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
94. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
95. Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
    Japandroids
95. Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng
    Orchestra Baobab
97. Halo
    Juana Molina
98. Simultonality
    Joshua Abrams
98. Exile In the Outer Ring
    EMA
98. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
98. Songs of Experience
    U2

Gina Vaynshteyn: 27 Best Books of 2017, as published by Hello Giggles

1. Little Fires Everywhere
   Celeste Ng
2. The Hate U Give
   Angie Thomas
3. The Idiot
   Elif Batuman
4. The Rules Do Not Apply
   Ariel Levy
5. Forest Dark
   Nicole Krauss
6. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
7. Difficult Women
   Roxane Gay
8. Sour Heart
   Jenny Zhang
9. Like a Beast
   Carly Joy Miller
10. Stay with Me
    Ayobami Adebayo
11. Rabbit Cake
    Annie Hartnett
12. How to Murder Your Life
    Cat Marnell
13. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
    Samantha Irby
14. Priestdaddy
    Patricia Lockwood
15. Weird in a World That’s Not

    A Career Guide for Misfits
    Jennifer Romolini
16. Startup
    Doree Shafrir
17. Woman No. 17
    Edan Lepucki
18. All the Lives I Want

    Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
    Alana Massey
19. A Separation
    Katie Kitamura
20. Things That Happened Before the Earthquake
    Chiara Barzini
21. Eat Only When You’re Hungry
    Lindsay Hunter
22. Spineless

    The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
    Juli Berwald
23. New People
    Danzy Senna
24. The Bright Hour

    A Memoir of Living and Dying
    Nina Riggs
25. Touch
    Courtney Maum
26. Pachinko
    Min Jin Lee
27. Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Jesmyn Ward