The editors of the New York Times has curated a list of the 100 notable books of 2018. The list is comprised of fiction, poetry and non-fiction books.
With PBS’ The Great American Read, it’s been a year of important lists in literature, but the New York Times are well celebrated for their taste in books. Indeed, this list has made me add a dozen new books to my TBR list.
Let us know what you make of the list and whether you think a book released in 2018 deserved to feature here.
New York Times’ 100 notable books of 2018
An American Marriage
Asymmetry
Brown: Poems
Cherry
Crudo
Early Work
Eternal Life
Everything Under
The Female Persuasion
Freshwater
Friday Black
The Friend
Go, Went, Gone
The Great Believers
The House of Broken Angels
Immigrant, Montana
Improvement
In Every Moment We Still Are Alive
The Kites
Kudos
Lake Success
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
Last Stories
Macbeth
The Mars Room
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
My Struggle: Book 6
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Neighborhood
The Odyssey
Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel
The Overstory
The Parking Lot Attendant
The Perfect Nanny
A Princess in Theory
Property
Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories
Sabrina
Severance
Slave Old Man
The Sparsholt Affair
Spinning Silver
A State of Freedom
There There
A View of the Empire at Sunset
Wade in the Water: Poems
Warlight
Washington Black
The Witch Elm
Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
Ali: A Life
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Arthur Ashe: A Life
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
Calypso
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Educated: A Memoir
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind
Feel Free: Essays
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
The Fifth Risk
Fly Girls
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Heavy: An American Memoir
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
In Pieces
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
The Library Book
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Small Fry
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
These Truths: A History of the United States
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
