Year-End Lists

The Wall Street Journal: Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• 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

Flavorwire: The 25 Best Albums of 2018

[see also 2015 • 2014]

• Clean
  Soccer Mommy
• Us
  Empress Of
• Floating Features
  La Luz
• God’s Favorite Customer
  Father John Misty
• Constant Image
  Flasher
• Zebra
  Arp
• Hive Mind
  The Internet
• El Mal Querer
  Rosalía
• New Material
  Preoccupations
• K.T.S.E.
  Teyana Taylor
• Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
  Sophie
• Whack World
  Tierra Whack
• Dirty Computer
  Janelle Monáe
• Be the Cowboy
  Mitski
• Freedom
  Amen Dunes
• Chris
  Christine and the Queens
• 7
  Beach House
• Beyondless
  Iceage
• Honey
  Robyn
• Virtue
  The Voidz
• Wide Awake!
  Parquet Courts
• Sweetener
  Ariana Grande
• In a Poem Unlimited
  U.S. Girls
• Golden Hour
  Kacey Musgraves
• Isolation
  Kali Uchis

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2018

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• The Pisces
  Melissa Broder
• The Third Hotel
  Laura van den Berg
• Smoke City
  Keith Rosson
• Poso Wells
  Gabriela Alemán
• Washington Black
  Esi Edugyan
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• The Map of Salt and Stars
  Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• Heads of the Colored People
  Nafissa Thompson-Spires
• Jonny Appleseed
  Joshua Whitehead
• The Silence of the Girls
  Pat Barker
• Killing Commendatore
  Haruki Murakami
• Whiskey When We're Dry
  John Larison
• Census
  Jesse Ball
• Little Fish
  Casey Plett
• The Line That Held Us
  David Joy
• Virgil Wander
  Leif Enger
• Notes from the Fog
  Ben Marcus

Scott Tobias: Top Movies of 2018, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
5. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
   Travis Wilkerson
6. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
7. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
8. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
9. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
   Joel & Ethan Coen
10. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
11. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
12. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos

Honorable Mentions

• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Bisbee '17
  Robert Greene
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Paddington 2
  Paul King
• 24 Frames
  Abbas Kiarostami
• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Last Race
  Michael Dweck
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Who We Are Now
  Matthew Newton

American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums Of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
2. Interstate Gospel
   Pistol Annies
3. Dirty Computer
   Janelle Monáe
4. To the Sunset
   Amanda Shires
5. The Tree of Forgiveness
   John Prine
6. WARM
   Jeff Tweedy
7. Desperate Man
   Eric Church
8. Black Velvet
   Charles Bradley
9. Things Change
   American Aquarium
10. Mr. Jukebox
    Joshua Hedley
11. Putting on Airs
    Erin Rae
12. Healing Tide
    The War and Treaty
13. Dying Star
    Ruston Kelly
14. Ancient Noise
    Patrick Sweany
15. Port Saint Joe
    Brothers Osborne
16. Among the Ghosts
    Lucero
17. Karma for Cheap
    Aaron Lee Tasjan
18. LONER
    Caroline Rose
19. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
20. Rifles and Rosary Beads
    Mary Gauthier
21. Songs of the Plains
    Colter Wall
22. The Eclipse Sessions
    John Hiatt
23. No Mercy In This Land
    Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite
24. The Future and the Past
    Natalie Prass
25. Swimming
    Mac Miller

Mara Reinstein: Top Movies of 2018, as published by Us Weekly

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
2. Green Book
   Peter Farrelly
3. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
   Morgan Neville
4. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
6. First Man
   Damien Chazelle
7. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
8. Widows
   Steve McQueen
9. Bohemian Rhapsody
   Bryan Singer
10. A Quiet Place
    John Krasinski

Claire Fallon: Best Fiction Of 2018, as published by HuffPost

[see also 2020]

1. The Third Hotel
   Laura van den Berg
2. There There
   Tommy Orange
3. Confessions of the Fox
   Jordy Rosenberg
4. Asymmetry
   Lisa Halliday
5. Comemadre
   Roque Larraquy
6. The Pisces
   Melissa Broder
7. Friday Black
   Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
8. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
   Ottessa Moshfegh
9. Heads of the Colored People
   Nafissa Thompson-Spires
10. Red Clocks
    Leni Zumas
11. Severance
    Ling Ma

LaToya Ferguson: The Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2020 • 2019]

1. Atlanta
2. Killing Eve
3. Legends of Tomorrow
4. Glow
5. The Good Fight
6. The Americans
7. The Good Place
8. Barry
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. Brockmire

The Ringer: Best Movies of 2018, composed by Sean Fennessey and Adam Nayman

[see also 2020 • 2019]

1. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
2. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
3. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Black Panther
   Ryan Coogler
6. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
7. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
8. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
9. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
10. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins

With Apologies To

• The Favourite
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Hereditary
  Ari Aster
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• First Man
  Damien Chazelle
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• The Old Man & the Gun
  David Lowery
• Game Night
  John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
• Mid90s
  Jonah Hill
• Widows
  Steve McQueen
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville
• Wildlife
  Paul Dano
• A Quiet Place
  John Krasinski
• The Price of Everything
  Nathaniel Kahn
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Vice
  Adam McKay
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Infinite Football
  Corneliu Porumboiu
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Podcasts of 2018

[see also 2021]

1. You Must Remember This
2. Radiolab
3. Walking The Floor with Chris Shiflett
4. Thirst Aid Kit
5. Hell and Gone
6. Bitch Sesh
7. FiveThirtyEight Politics
8. The Good Place: The Podcast
9. My Favorite Murder
10. Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Honorable mentions

• Alice Isn't Dead
• Conversations with People Who Hate Me