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Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2018, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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1947: Where Now Begins by Elisabeth Åsbrink, translated by Fiona Graham appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for history lovers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
84K by Claire North appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, family matters, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety by Donald Hall appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, short stories, essays & poetry, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Common Table: 80 Recipes And Stories From My Shared Cultures by Cynthia Chen McTernan appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Duke By Default: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, let’s talk about sex, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Gift From Darkness by Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Hard Rain: America In The 1960s, Our Decade Of Hope, Possibility, And Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Life Of My Own: A Memoir by Claire Tomalin appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Lucky Man: Stories by Jamel Brinkley appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, short stories, essays & poetry, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A New Reality: Human Evolution For A Sustainable Future by Jonas Salk and Jonathan Salk appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, science!, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Place For Us: A Novel by Fatima Farheen Mirza appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A River Of Stars: A Novel by Vanessa Hua appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Stitch In Time by Daphne Kalmar appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Thousand Beginnings And Endings by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (editors) appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Achtung Baby: An American Mom On The German Art Of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, book club ideas, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All The Animals Where I Live by Philip C. Stead appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All The Answers by Michael Kupperman appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All The Names They Used For God by Anjali Sachdeva appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
America Is Not The Heart: A Novel by Elaine Castillo appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, identity & culture, cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Hate: Survivors Speak Out by Arjun Singh Sethi appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, identity & culture, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Prison by Shane Bauer was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2018 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into The Business Of Punishment by Shane Bauer appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ana Maria Reyes Does Not Live In A Castle by Hilda Eunice Burgos appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, identity & culture, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, nonfiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2018 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Asymmetry: A Novel by Lisa Halliday appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bachelor Nation: Inside The World Of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, science!, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Barracoon: The Story Of The Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, comics & graphic novels, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Becoming by Michelle Obama appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Belonging: A German Reckons With History And Home by Nora Krug appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beneath A Ruthless Sun: A True Story Of Violence, Race, And Justice Lost And Found by Gilbert King appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, identity & culture, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, illustrated by Jenn St-Onge and Joy San appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, love & romance, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, historical fiction, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, for music lovers, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black Texas Ranger Darren Mathews travels to the town of Lark to investigate the deaths of a Black lawyer and a local white woman. The case brings him into conflict with white supremacists, local loyalties, and problems in his own career and marriage.
