Year-End Lists

The Wall Street Journal: Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018

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• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Churchill

  Walking With Destiny
  Andrew Roberts
• Cloudbursts

  Collected and New Stories
  Thomas McGuane
• The Consciousness Instinct

  Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
  Michael S. Gazzaniga
• Frederick Douglass

  Prophet of Freedom
  David W. Blight
• Godsend
  John Wray
• Lament from Epirus

  An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
  Christopher C. King
• A Life of My Own
  Claire Tomalin
• Patriot Number One

  American Dreams in Chinatown
  Lauren Hilgers
• Season of the Shadow
  Léonora Miano