Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 100 Notable Books of 2018, Fiction and Nonfiction

Fiction

• An American Marriage
  Tayari Jones
• Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine
  Kevin Wilson
• Cherry
  Nico Walker
• Children of Blood and Bone
  Tomi Adeyemi
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• Conscience
  Alice Mattison
• Crudo
  Olivia Laing
• The Female Persuasion
  Meg Wolitzer
• Flights
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• French Exit
  Patrick deWitt
• Girls Burn Brighter
  Shobha Rao
• The Great Alone
  Kristin Hannah
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• How to Be Safe
  Tom McAllister
• If You Leave Me
  Crystal Hana Kim
• The Immortalists
  Chloe Benjamin
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon
• Killing Commendatore
  Haruki Murakami
• The Kiss Quotient
  Helen Hoang
• A Ladder to the Sky
  John Boyne
• Lake Success
  Gary Shteyngart
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• Love and Ruin
  Paula McLain
• The Mere Wife
  Maria Dahvana Headley
• A Million Drops
  Víctor del Árbol
• The Music Shop
  Rachel Joyce
• My Sister, the Serial Killer
  Oyinkan Braithwaite
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• November Road
  Lou Berney
• Only Child
  Rhiannon Navin
• The Pisces
  Melissa Broder
• The Poet X
  Elizabeth Acevedo
• Red Clocks
  Leni Zumas
• A River of Stars
  Vanessa Hua
• The Shakespeare Requirement
  Julie Schumacher
• The Shape of the Ruins
  Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• The Silence of the Girls
  Pat Barker
• Still Life with Monkey
  Katharine Weber
• Strike Your Heart
  Amélie Nothomb
• That Kind of Mother
  Rumaan Alam
• Theory of Bastards
  Audrey Schulman
• Transcription
  Kate Atkinson
• Upstate
  James Wood
• Warlight
  Michael Ondaatje
• What We Were Promised
  Lucy Tan
• When Katie Met Cassidy
  Camille Perri
• The Winter Soldier
  Daniel Mason
• You Think It, I'll Say It
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Your Duck Is My Duck
  Deborah Eisenberg

Nonfiction

• 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

  A Life-Changing List
  James Mustich
• Air Traffic

  A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
  Gregory Pardlo
• All You Can Ever Know
  Nicole Chung
• Amity and Prosperity

  One Family and the Fracturing of America
  Eliza Griswold
• The Apprentice

  Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
  Greg Miller
• Bad Blood

  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
  John Carreyrou
• Because We Are Bad

  OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
  Lily Bailey
• Becoming
  Michelle Obama
• Beneath a Ruthless Sun

  A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
  Gilbert King
• Boom Town

  The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis
  Sam Anderson
• Calypso
  David Sedaris
• Chesapeake Requiem

  A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
  Earl Swift
• The Corrosion of Conservatism

  Why I Left the Right
  Max Boot
• Directorate S

  The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Steve Coll
• Dopesick

  Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
  Beth Macy
• Eager

  The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
  Ben Goldfarb
• Educated
  Tara Westover
• Fear

  Trump in the White House
  Bob Woodward
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads

  A Story of War and What Comes After
  Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon
• A Higher Loyalty

  Truth, Lies, and Leadership
  James Comey
• How Democracies Die
  Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• How to Change Your Mind

  What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  Michelle McNamara
• The Known Citizen

  A History of Privacy in Modern America
  Sarah E. Igo
• The Lies That Bind

  Rethinking Identity
  Kwame Anthony Appiah
• A Life of My Own
  Claire Tomalin
• Look Alive Out There
  Sloane Crosley
• Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

  The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
  Colm Tóibín
• The Mirage Factory

  Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
  Gary Krist
• Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
  Craig Brown
• Presidents of War
  Michael Beschloss
• The Poisoned City

  Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
  Anna Clark
• Political Tribes

  Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
  Amy Chua
• Questioning Minds

  The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
  Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
• The Real Lolita

  The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
  Sarah Weinman
• Rising Out of Hatred

  The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
  Eli Saslow
• Russian Roulette

  The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
  Michael Isikoff and David Corn
• The Schoolhouse Gate

  Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
  Justin Driver
• Smoketown

  The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
  Mark Whitaker
• The Souls of Yellow Folk
  Wesley Yang
• The Spy and the Traitor

  The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
  Ben Macintyre
• These Truths

  A History of the United States
  Jill Lepore
• Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
  Wil Haygood
• We the Corporations

  How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
  Adam Winkler
• What Truth Sounds Like

  Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
  Michael Eric Dyson
• Why Baseball Matters
  Susan Jacoby
• Winners Take All

  The Elite Charade of Changing the World
  Anand Giridharadas
• The Wizard and the Prophet

  Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
  Charles C. Mann