100 Notable Books of 2018
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About this list
New York Times, 100 Books
2018s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
who voted:
Trade sources differ: a C-SPAN–based 2015 blog post tallied roughly 16 New York Times Book Review staffers, while a 2023 Publishers Weekly profile said the desk now has “more than 20 editors, critics and reporters” To keep our rankings conservative, we therefore credit each NYT list to 10 voters.
This list was originally published in 2018 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2636 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | 2018 | American | English | |
| 4155 | Asymmetry | Lisa Halliday | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Brown | Kevin Young | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Cherry | Nico Walker | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | Crudo | Olivia Laing | 2018 | British | English | |
| 10450 | Early Work | Andrew Martin | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Eternal Life | Dara Horn | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Everything Under | Daisy Johnson | 2018 | British | English | |
| 11661 | The Female Persuasion | Meg Wolitzer | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6582 | Freshwater | Akwaeke Emezi | 2018 | Nigerian | English | |
| 11661 | Friday Black | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | 2018 | American | English | |
| 4392 | The Friend | Sigrid Nunez | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5928 | Go Went Gone | Jenny Erpenbeck | 2015 | German | German | |
| 1983 | The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | The House Of Broken Angels | Luis Alberto Urrea | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10184 | Immigrant, Montana | Amitava Kumar | 2017 | American | English | |
| 9017 | Improvement | Joan Silber | 2017 | American | English | |
| 11180 | In Every Moment We Still Are Alive | Tom Malmquist | 2015 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 5641 | The Kites | Romain Gary | 1980 | French | French | |
| 3467 | Kudos | Rachel Cusk | 2018 | British | English | |
| 11661 | Lake Success | Gary Shteyngart | 2018 | American | English | |
| 4827 | The Largesse of the Sea Maiden | Denis Johnson | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Last Stories | William Trevor | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 11661 | Macbeth | Jo Nesbø | 2018 | Norwegian | English | |
| 6525 | The Mars Room | Rachel Kushner | 2018 | American | English | |
| 9976 | Mirror, Shoulder, Signal | Dorthe Nors | 2016 | Danish | English | |
| 10540 | My Struggle: Book 6 | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2011 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 2224 | My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11319 | The Neighborhood | Mario Vargas Llosa | 2016 | Peruvian | English | |
| 24 | The Odyssey | Homer | -740 | Greek | Ancient greek | |
| 11661 | Only To Sleep | Lawrence Osborne | 2018 | British | English | |
| 1110 | The Overstory | Richard Powers | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | The Parking Lot Attendant | Nafkote Tamirat | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5969 | The Perfect Nanny | Leïla Slimani | 2016 | French | French | |
| 5965 | A Princess In Theory | Alyssa Cole | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Property | Lionel Shriver | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Pure Hollywood | Christine Schutt | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5633 | Sabrina | Nick Drnaso | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2736 | Severance | Ling Ma | 2018 | American | English | |
| 4811 | Slave Old Man | Patrick Chamoiseau | 1997 | French | French | |
| 11481 | The Sparsholt Affair | Alan Hollinghurst | 2017 | British | English | |
| 7978 | Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | A State Of Freedom | Neel Mukherjee | 2018 | British | English | |
| 2337 | There There | Tommy Orange | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | A View Of The Empire At Sunset | Caryl Phillips | 2018 | British | English | |
| 11661 | Wade In The Water | Tracy K. Smith | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5720 | Warlight | Michael Ondaatje | 2018 | Canadian | English | |
| 6906 | Washington Black | Esi Edugyan | 2018 | Canadian | English | |
| 11661 | The Witch Elm | Tana French | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 11661 | Your Duck Is My Duck | Deborah Eisenberg | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11481 | Ali | Jonathan Eig | 2017 | American | English | |
| 11661 | American Dialogue | Joseph Ellis | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | American Eden | Victoria Johnson | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 6982 | American Prison | Shane Bauer | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5092 | Amity and Prosperity | Eliza Griswold | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | Arthur Ashe: A Life | Raymond Arsenault | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 3522 | Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | Boom Town | Sam Anderson | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Brothers Of The Gun | Marwan Hisham, Molly Crabapple | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 10450 | Calypso | David Sedaris | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | Churchill | Andrew Roberts | 2018 | British | English | |
| 5996 | The Coddling Of The American Mind | Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | The Cost of Living | Deborah Levy | 2018 | British | English | |
| 6577 | Crashed | Adam Tooze | 2018 | British | English | |
| 11481 | The Darkening Age | Catherine Nixey | 2017 | British | English | |
| 11661 | Dead Girls | Alice Bolin | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | The Dinosaur Artist | Paige Williams | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | Dopesick | Beth Macy | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2415 | Educated | Tara Westover | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5642 | Enlightenment Now | Steven Pinker | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Fatal Discord | Michael Massing | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 5003 | Feel Free | Zadie Smith | 2018 | British | English | |
| 6957 | The Field Of Blood | Joanne B. Freeman | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6957 | The Fifth Risk | Michael M. Lewis | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Fly Girls | Keith O'Brien | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2992 | Frederick Douglass | David W. Blight | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World | Ramachandra Guha | 2018 | Indian | English | |
| 11661 | God Save Texas | Lawrence Wright | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2608 | Heavy | Kiese Laymon | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6716 | How To Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | In Pieces | Sally Field | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Into The Raging Sea | Rachel Slade | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6360 | The Library Book | Susan Orlean | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Looking For Lorraine | Imani Perry | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 11481 | Ninety Nine Glimpses Of Princess Margaret | Craig Brown | 2017 | British | English | |
| 11661 | No Ashes In The Fire | C. L. Moore | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 7738 | No Turning Back | Rania Abouzeid | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 11661 | Patriot Number One | Lauren Hilgers | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 10450 | The Poison Squad | Deborah Blum | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Rise And Kill First | Hjalmar Bergman | 2018 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 11661 | She Has Her Mother's Laugh | Carl Zimmer | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5933 | Small Fry | Lisa Brennan-Jobs | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | The Souls Of Yellow Folk | Wesley Yang | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | The Tangled Tree | David Quammen | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6957 | There Will Be No Miracles Here | Casey Gerald | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5642 | These Truths | Jill Lepore | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11661 | We The Corporations | Adam Winkler | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10450 | What The Eyes Don't See | Mona Hanna-Attisha | 2018 | American | English | |
| 11481 | Why Comics? | Hillary L. Chute | 2017 | American | English | |
| 11661 | Winners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | 2018 | American | English |