Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: Favorite Books of 2018

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Awayland
  Ramona Ausubel
• Baby Teeth
  Zoje Stage
• Bearskin
  James A. McLaughlin
• Beautiful Country Burn Again

  Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
  Ben Fountain
• Be With
  Forrest Gander
• Call Me Zebra
  Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
• Cape Verdean Blues
  Shauna Barbosa
• The Carrying
  Ada Limón
• Cherry
  Nico Walker
• The Colonial Conquest
  Alessandro Spina
• Convenience Store Woman
  Sayaka Murata
• Essential Essays

  Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
  Adrienne Rich
• Evening in Paradise
  Lucia Berlin
• Everything Under
  Daisy Johnson
• Eye Level
  Jenny Xie
• The Females
  Wolfgang Hilbig
• Fire Sermon
  Jamie Quatro
• Flights
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Friday Black
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• The Friend
  Sigrid Nunez
• Girls Burn Brighter
  Shobha Rao
• Good and Mad

  The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
  Rebecca Traister
• The Good Son
  You-Jeong Jeong
• If You Leave Me
  Crystal Hana Kim
• The Immortalists
  Chloe Benjamin
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon
• Indian Horse
  Richard Wagamese
• The Kiss Quotient
  Helen Hoang
• Laura & Emma
  Kate Greathead
• The Mars Room
  Rachel Kushner
• Mine
  Sarah Viren
• Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
  Dorthe Nors
• Motherhood
  Sheila Heti
• My Sister, the Serial Killer
  Oyinkan Braithwaite
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Naked Woman
  Armonía Somers
• Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump

  An Intervention
  David Shields
• OK, Mr. Field
  Katharine Kilalea
• The Order of the Day
  Eric Vuillard
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• The Perfect Nanny
  Leila Slimani
• Ponti
  Sharlene Teo
• The Real Lolita

  The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
  Sarah Weinman
• Restless Souls
  Dan Sheehan
• The Sky Is Yours
  Chandler Klang Smith
• The Tangled Tree

  A Radical New History of Life
  David Quammen
• The Third Hotel
  Laura van den Berg
• This Little Art
  Kate Briggs
• This Radical Land

  A Natural History of American Dissent
  Daegan Miller
• Transparent City
  Ondjaki
• Trick
  Domenico Starnone
• Wild Milk
  Sabrina Mark
• Welcome Home

  A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters
  Lucia Berlin
• The Witch Elm
  Tana French
• You Think It, I'll Say It
  Curtis Sittenfeld