Year-End Lists

Boston.com: 20 Best Books of 2018, selected by staff members from four Boston book shops

[see also 2019]

Fiction

• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• Speak No Evil
  Uzodinma Iweala
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• There There
  Tommy Orange
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Gone So Long
  Andre Dubus III
• Friday Black
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Poetry

• The Final Voicemails
  Max Ritvo

Nonfiction

• So You Want to Talk About Race
  Ijeoma Oluo
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  Michelle McNamara
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• The Traveling Feast

  On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes
  Rick Bass
• Call Me American
  Abdi Nor Iftin
• Heartland

  A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• The Library Book
  Susan Orlean
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama