Year-End Lists

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2018
All Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal

The Third Hotel - Laura van den Berg

Best Fiction of 2018 Powell's Books

The Third Hotel - Laura van den Berg

Best Fiction Of 2018 HuffPost: Claire Fallon

Motherhood - Sheila Heti

10 Best Books of 2018 Vulture: Christian Lorentzen

And Now We Have Everything - Meaghan O'Connell

Best Nonfiction of 2018 Powell's Books

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

10 Best Books of 2018 Entertainment Weekly

10 Favorite Books of 2018 A.V. Club

Best Books of 2018 New Yorker: Katy Waldman

Favorite Books of 2018 Smithsonian

10 Best Books of 2018 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs

10 Best Books of 2018 New York Times

Motherhood - Sheila Heti

Best Books of 2018 Bustle

10 Best Books of 2018 New York Public Library

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times

The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner

Best Books of 2018 Time

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

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