Year-End Lists

Entropy: Best Books of 2018, Fiction and Non-Fiction, "in no particular order" but numbered as follows.

[see also 2017]

Fiction

1. The Incendiaries
   R.O. Kwon
2. There There
   Tommy Orange
3. Friday Black
   Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4. Bury What We Cannot Take
   Kirstin Chen
5. Wild Milk
   Sabrina Mark
6. The Great Believers
   Rebecca Makkai
7. Red Clocks
   Leni Zumas
8. The End of Peril, The End of Enmity, The End of Strife, A Haven
   Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
9. The Naked Woman
   Armonía Somers
10. The Third Hotel
    Laura van den Berg
11. Motherhood
    Sheila Heti
12. Strawberry Fields
    Hilary Plum
13. On Hell
    Johanna Hedva
14. A Lucky Man
    Jamel Brinkley
15. A River of Stars
    Vanessa Hua
16. The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
    Diane Williams
17. Lion Cross Point
    Masatsugu Ono
18. Call Me Zebra
    Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
19. Mecha Samurai Empire
    Peter Tieryas
20. Fruit of the Drunken Tree
    Ingrid Rojas Contreras
21. If You Leave Me
    Crystal Hana Kim
22. Florida
    Lauren Groff
23. The Emissary
    Yoko Tawada
24. Empty Set
    Verónica Gerber Bicecci
25. An American Marriage
    Tayari Jones
26. H & G
    Anna Maria Hong
27. Monster Portraits
    Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar
28. The Taiga Syndrome
    Cristina Rivera Garza
29. Sacred Smokes
    Theodore C. Van Alst
30. French Exit
    Patrick deWitt
31. The Poet X
    Elizabeth Acevedo
32. My Pet Serial Killer
    Michael J. Seidlinger
33. Comemadre
    Roque Larraquy
34. White Dancing Elephants
    Chaya Bhuvaneswar
35. The Golden State
    Lydia Kiesling
36. Break.up

    A Novel in Essays
    Joanna Walsh
37. Little Reunions
    Eileen Chang
38. Scribe
    Alyson Hagy
39. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
    Denis Johnson
40. Open Me
    Lisa Locascio
41. After the Winter
    Guadalupe Nettel
42. Pretend We Live Here
    Genevieve Hudson
43. Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories
    Angela Mitchell
44. Suicide Club

    A Novel About Living
    Rachel Heng
45. Not Heaven, Somewhere Else
    Rebecca Brown
46. The Immigrant's Refrigerator
    Elena Georgiou
47. The Lucky Ones Get to be People
    Rachel Haley Himmelheber
48. American Hippo

    River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories
    Sarah Gailey
49. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
    Katya Apekina
50. Freshwater
    Akwaeke Emezi
51. The Pisces
    Melissa Broder
52. The Dirty Text
    Soleida Rios
53. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    Ottessa Moshfegh
54. What We Were Promised
    Lucy Tan
55. Whiskey & Ribbons
    Leesa Cross-Smith
56. The Overstory
    Richard Powers
57. Self-Portrait with Boy
    Rachel Lyon
58. The Blurry Years
    Eleanor Kriseman
59. The Houseguest

    And Other Stories
    Amparo Dávila
60. The Poppy War
    R.F. Kuang

Non-Fiction

1. Sick
   Porochista Khakpour
2. Heart Berries
   Terese Marie Mailhot
3. Carceral Capitalism
   Jackie Wang
4. All You Can Ever Know
   Nicole Chung
5. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
   Alexander Chee
6. Betwixt-and-Between

   Essays on the Writing Life
   Jenny Boully
7. Heavy

   An American Memoir
   Kiese Laymon
8. Litany for the Long Moment
   Mary-Kim Arnold
9. A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
   Anne Boyer
10. When They Call You a Terrorist

    A Black Lives Matter Memoir
    Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
11. This Will Be My Undoing

    Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
    Morgan Jerkins
12. Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

    Bookmarked
    Brian Evenson
13. Tonight I'm Someone Else
    Chelsea Hodson
14. Beyond Measure
    Rachel Z. Arndt
15. Not That Bad

    Dispatches from Rape Culture
    Roxane Gay (editor)
16. Feel Free
    Zadie Smith
17. When I Spoke in Tongues

    A Story of Faith and Its Loss
    Jessica Wilbanks
18. Silver Road

    Maps, Essays and Calligraphies
    Kazim Ali
19. Idiophone
    Amy Fusselman
20. Ladies Lazarus
    Piper J. Daniels
21. Migrant Brothers

    A Poet’s Declaration of Human Dignity
    Patrick Chamoiseau
22. Light Magic for Dark Times

    More than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis
    Lisa Marie Basile
23. Mother Winter
    Sophia Shalmiyev
24. Old In Art School

    A Memoir of Starting Over
    Nell Painter
25. California Calling

    A Self-Interrogation
    Natalie Singer
26. The Displaced

    Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
    Viet Thanh Nguyen (editor)
27. The Leftovers
    Shaelyn Smith
28. Rockhaven

    A History of Interiors
    various authors
29. Spain
    Caren Beilin
30. The Barefoot Woman
    Scholastique Mukasonga
31. Wrestling with the Devil

    A Prison Memoir
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o
32. Eloquent Rage

    A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
    Brittney C. Cooper
33. So You Want to Talk About Race
    Ijeoma Oluo
34. Transgressive Circulation
    Johannes Goransson
35. Dept. of Posthumous Letters
    Dot Devota and Caitie Moore
36. John Okada

    The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
    various authors
37. Pasolini's Our
    Nathanaël
38. To Float in the Space Between

    A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
    Terrance Hayes
39. Lyric Multiples
    George Albon
40. Refuge
    Ming Lauren Holden