Year-End Lists

Time Magazine: Best Fiction and Nonfiction Books of 2018

Fiction

1. The Mars Room
   Rachel Kushner
2. Asymmetry
   Lisa Halliday
3. An American Marriage
   Tayari Jones
4. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
   Ottessa Moshfegh
5. Circe
   Madeline Miller
6. Washington Black
   Esi Edugyan
7. There There
   Tommy Orange
8. Gun Love
   Jennifer Clement
9. Florida
   Lauren Groff
10. The Overstory
    Richard Powers

Nonfiction

1. Bad Blood

   Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
   John Carreyrou
2. Barracoon

   The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
   Zora Neale Hurston
3. Educated
   Tara Westover
4. The Order of Time
   Carlo Rovelli
5. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
   Alexander Chee
6. These Truths

   A History of the United States
   Jill Lepore
7. Frederick Douglass

   Prophet of Freedom
   David W. Blight
8. All You Can Ever Know
   Nicole Chung
9. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
   Mary Gabriel
10. How Democracies Die
    Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt