Year-End Lists

Autostraddle: 50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018, with the poetry list filed separately here

[see also 2025]

Fiction

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Mars Room
  Rachel Kushner
• Those Who Knew
  Idra Novey
• Insurrecto
  Gina Apostol
• The Mere Wife
  Maria Dahvana Headley
• Vox
  Christina Dalcher
• Before She Sleeps
  Bina Shah
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• Red Clocks
  Leni Zumas
• She Would Be King
  Wayétu Moore

Nonfiction

• 90s Bitch

  Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
  Allison Yarrow
• The Real Lolita

  The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
  Sarah Weinman
• Stealing the Show

  How Women Are Revolutionizing Television
  Joy Press
• Betraying Big Brother

  The Feminist Awakening in China
  Leta Hong Fincher
• Text Me When You Get Home

  The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
  Kayleen Schaefer
• Bad with Money

  The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together
  Gaby Dunn

Cultural Criticism

• Against Memoir

  Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
  Michelle Tea
• Eloquent Rage

  A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
  Brittney C. Cooper
• Revolting Prostitutes

  The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
  Juno Mac & Molly Smith
• Good and Mad

  The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
  Rebecca Traister
• Rage Becomes Her

  The Power of Women's Anger
  Soraya Chemaly
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo
• Girls Resist!

  A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution
  KaeLyn Rich
• Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

  And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
  Kristen R. Ghodsee

Essay Collections

• Meaty
  Samantha Irby
• The Reckonings
  Lacy M. Johnson
• This Will Be My Undoing

  Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
  Morgan Jerkins
• Tonight I'm Someone Else
  Chelsea Hodson
• Dead Girls

  Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
  Alice Bolin
• The Art of Feminism

  Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017
  Helena Reckitt (editor)

Anthologies

• Well-Read Black Girl

  Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
  Glory Edim (editor)
• Can We All Be Feminists?

  New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism
  June Eric-Udorie
• Our Stories, Our Voices

  21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
  Amy Reed (editor)
• Not That Bad

  Dispatches from Rape Culture
  Roxane Gay (editor)
• Becoming Dangerous

  Witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels on summoning the power to resist
  Katie West & Jasmine Elliott (editors)
• Generation F

  The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology

Memoir/Biography

• I'm Afraid of Men
  Vivek Shraya
• The Trauma Cleaner

  One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
  Sarah Krasnostein
• The Recovering

  Intoxication and Its Aftermath
  Leslie Jamison
• Sick
  Porochista Khakpour
• How to Be Alone

  If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
  Lane Moore
• When They Call You a Terrorist

  A Black Lives Matter Memoir
  Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
• And Now We Have Everything

  On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
  Meaghan O'Connell
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama