Year-End Lists

Shelf Awareness: 2018 Best Books of the Year

Fiction

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Convenience Store Woman
  Sayaka Murata
• Everything Under
  Daisy Johnson
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Girls Burn Brighter
  Shobha Rao
• The Mars Room
  Rachel Kushner
• My Ex-Life
  Stephen McCauley
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• Your Duck Is My Duck
  Deborah Eisenberg

Nonfiction

• All You Can Ever Know
  Nicole Chung
• Beautiful Country Burn Again

  Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
  Ben Fountain
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Fly Girls

  How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
  Keith O’Brien
• Heartland

  A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• The Recovering

  Intoxication and Its Aftermath
  Leslie Jamison
• The Tangled Tree

  A Radical New History of Life
  David Quammen
• Tinderbox

  The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
  Robert W. Fieseler
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo