Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
New York Times: Mike Hale: Best International TV Shows of 2024
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
more...
2018 Books
Shelf Awareness: Best Books of 2018
13 December 2018
Shelf Awareness
:
Best Books of 2018
[see also
2023
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2017
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Nonfiction
All You Can Ever Know
Nicole Chung
Beautiful Country Burn Again
Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
Ben Fountain
Educated
Tara Westover
Fly Girls
How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Keith O’Brien
Heartland
A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Sarah Smarsh
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
The Recovering
Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
The Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen
Tinderbox
The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Robert W. Fieseler
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Fiction
Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
Everything Under
Daisy Johnson
Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao
The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner
My Ex-Life
Stephen McCauley
There There
Tommy Orange
Your Duck Is My Duck
Deborah Eisenberg