Year-End Lists

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The Long Take - Robin Robertson

Best Fiction of 2018 Goldsmiths Prize

10 Best Books of 2018 Washington Post

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Fiction 2018 National Book Award

The New Negro - Jeffrey C. Stewart

Nonfiction 2018 National Book Award

100 Notable Books of 2018 Washington Post

Call Them by Their True Names - Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction 2018 Kirkus Prize

Severance - Ling Ma

Fiction 2018 Kirkus Prize

Milkman - Anna Burns

Best Fiction of 2018 The Booker Prize

Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie

Best Fiction of 2018 Women's Prize

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

27 Best Books of 2017 Hello Giggles: Gina Vaynshteyn

Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

Favorite Books of 2017 Awl: Alex Balk

Best 50 Books of 2017 Brooklyn Rail: Joseph Salvatore

We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Top 10 Books of 2017 Michigan Daily

Best Books of 2017 Book Riot

Best Books of 2017 Shelf Awareness

Top 20 Books of 2017 Stranger

Best Books of 2017 Week

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

Best Books I Read in 2017 Barack Obama

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Best Books of 2017 Harper’s Bazaar

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Five Best Books of 2017 by Women of Color gal-dem

10 Favorite Books of 2017 Slate: Laura Miller

Best Books of 2017 Verso Books

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Sherman Alexie

10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal

Best Books of 2017 Entropy

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