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2018 Books

O Magazine: 15 Best Books of 2018

21 December 2018

O, The Oprah Magazine: 15 Best Books of 2018

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

  1. Asymmetry
    Lisa Halliday
  2. An American Marriage
    Tayari Jones
  3. Clock Dance
    Anne Tyler
  4. How to Love a Jamaican
    Alexia Arthurs
  5. The Overstory
    Richard Powers
  6. Those Who Knew
    Idra Novey
  7. The Feral Detective
    Jonathan Lethem
  8. Everything Here Is Beautiful
    Mira T. Lee
  9. Lake Success
    Gary Shteyngart
  10. Educated
    Tara Westover
  11. Pretend I'm Dead
    Jen Beagin
  12. Unsheltered
    Barbara Kingsolver
  13. There There
    Tommy Orange
  14. Heads of the Colored People
    Nafissa Thompson-Spires
  15. The Labyrinth of the Spirits
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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