Year-End Lists

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2018 Books

Paste: Best Books of 2018

13 December 2018

Paste Magazine: Best Books of 2018, Novels and Nonfiction

[see also 2010s, 2017]

    Novels

  1. Circe
    Madeline Miller
  2. The Incendiaries
    R.O. Kwon
  3. The Poppy War
    R.F. Kuang
  4. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
    Hank Green
  5. Warlight
    Michael Ondaatje
  6. Crudo
    Olivia Laing
  7. All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
    Danielle Teller
  8. Girls Burn Brighter
    Shobha Rao
  9. The Friend
    Sigrid Nunez
  10. Melmoth
    Sarah Perry
  11. Southernmost
    Silas House
  12. The Calculating Stars
    Mary Robinette Kowal

    Nonfiction

  1. Educated
    Tara Westover
  2. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
    Rachel Slade
  3. Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
    Anna Badkhen
  4. So You Want to Talk About Race
    Ijeoma Oluo
  5. Beastie Boys Book
    Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
  6. Feel Free
    Zadie Smith
  7. All You Can Ever Know
    Nicole Chung
  8. When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World - and Why We Need Them
    Philip Collins
  9. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
    Michiko Kakutani
  10. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    John Carreyrou
  11. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
    Zora Neale Hurston
  12. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
    Alexander Chee
  13. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
    Roxane Gay (editor)
  14. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
    Mark Dery
  15. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
    Michelle McNamara
  16. How Democracies Die
    Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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