Year-End Lists

Spectrum Culture: Favorite Books of 2018, including "any book we read in 2018, regardless of release date"

[see also 2019]

• Nothing to Be Frightened Of
  Julian Barnes
• Believe Me

  The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump
  John Fea
• Amberlough
  Lara Elena Donnelly
• Fragile Things

  Short Fictions and Wonders
  Neil Gaiman
• How to Read Nancy

  The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels
  Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden
• Kingdom Come
  J.G. Ballard
• The Fall of Wisconsin

  The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
  Dan Kaufman
• Housekeeping
  Marilynne Robinson
• Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
  Vandana Singh
• Robin
  Dave Itzkoff
• Paradiso Diaspora
  John Yau
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  Michael Chabon

Sophie Gilbert: 22 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2017]

• America to Me
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
• Atlanta
• Barry
• Big Mouth
• BoJack Horseman
• The End of the F***ing World
• The Good Place
• Homecoming
• Howards End
• Killing Eve
• The Little Drummer Girl
• My Brilliant Friend
• Patrick Melrose
• Queer Eye
• Random Acts of Flyness
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
• Sharp Objects
• Sorry for Your Loss
• Succession
• Wild Wild Country
• You

Drowned in Sound: 15 Favourite Albums of 2018

[see also 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Double Negative
   Low
2. Joy as an Act of Resistance
   Idles
3. Chris
   Christine and the Queens
4. Pastoral
   Gazelle Twin
5. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
   Sophie
6. Hunter
   Anna Calvi
7. Reiði
   Black Foxxes
8. Love Is Dead
   Chvrches
9. Cocoa Sugar
   Young Fathers
10. Fixed Ideals
    Muncie Girls
11. Art of Doubt
    Metric
12. Negro Swan
    Blood Orange
13. The Blue Hour
    Suede
14. Twin Fantasy
    Car Seat Headrest
15. Resistance Is Futile
    Manic Street Preachers

Alissa Wilkinson: Best Movies of 2018, as published by Vox

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

1. Cold War
   Pawel Pawlikowski
2. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
3. Bisbee '17
   Robert Greene
4. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
5. Amazing Grace
   Sydney Pollack
6. Leave No Trace
   Debra Granik
7. Support the Girls
   Andrew Bujalski
8. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
   RaMell Ross
9. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
10. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
11. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
12. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
13. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
14. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
15. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
16. The Death of Stalin
    Armando Iannucci
17. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
18. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
19. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
20. Damsel
    David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
21. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller

Ann Hornaday: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The Washington Post

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

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
   Barry Jenkins
3. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
4. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
5. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
6. Green Book
   Peter Farrelly
7. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
8. Tully
   Jason Reitman
9. Blindspotting
   Carlos López Estrada
10. A Quiet Place
    John Krasinski

Christian Science Monitor: Best Fiction Reads of 2018

[see also 2017]

• Transcription
  Kate Atkinson
• Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
  Sarah Bird
• Becoming Mrs. Lewis

  The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
  Patti Callahan
• The Cloister
  James Carroll
• The Mere Wife
  Maria Dahvana Headley
• Our Homesick Songs
  Emma Hooper
• Greeks Bearing Gifts
  Philip Kerr
• Unsheltered
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• Gateway to the Moon
  Mary Morris
• All the Lives We Never Lived
  Anuradha Roy
• Clock Dance
  Anne Tyler
• The Map of Salt and Stars
  Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Be the Cowboy
   Mitski
2. Daytona
   Pusha T
3. 7
   Beach House
4. Room 25
   Noname
5. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
   Deafheaven
6. Double Negative
   Low
7. On Dark Horses
   Emma Ruth Rundle
8. Bad Witch
   Nine Inch Nails
9. Your Queen Is a Reptile
   Sons of Kemet
10. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
11. Beyondless
    Iceage
12. Aviary
    Julia Holter
13. Now Only
    Mount Eerie
14. Joy as an Act of Resistance
    Idles
15. God’s Favorite Customer
    Father John Misty
16. Rausch
    Gas
17. Wide Awake!
    Parquet Courts
18. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
19. FM!
    Vince Staples
20. Down Below
    Tribulation
21. Love In Shadow
    Sumac
22. Dead Magic
    Anna von Hausswolff
23. Bottle It In
    Kurt Vile
24. Golden Hour
    Kacey Musgraves
25. Our Raw Heart
    YOB
26. Care for Me
    Saba
27. 2012-2017
    Against All Logic
28. The Sciences
    Sleep
29. Konoyo
    Tim Hecker
30. Magus
    Thou
31. Hive Mind
    The Internet
32. Honey
    Robyn
33. Shadow on Everything
    Bambara
34. boygenius
    boygenius
35. Everything's Fine
    Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris
36. The Official Body
    Shopping
37. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
38. The Wake
    Voivod
39. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
40. Sparkle Hard
    Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
41. Veteran
    JPEGMAFIA
42. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
43. Constant Image
    Flasher
44. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
    John Coltrane
45. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
46. Con Todo El Mundo
    Khruangbin
47. Dose Your Dreams
    Fucked Up
48. There’s a Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo
49. Songs of Praise
    Shame
50. abysskiss
    Adrianne Lenker

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