Year-End Lists

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