Best Book lists of 2018

[Tracy]

Booknblues wrote: "An English take on the best books of 2018 as suggested by authors and critics.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/......"
And the TBR just grew again!

[Booknblues]

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Asymmetry
Awayland
Baby Teeth
Bearskin
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
Be With Forrest Gander
Call Me Zebra
Cape Verdean Blues
The Carrying: Poems
Cherry
The Colonial Conquest: The Confines of the Shadow Volume I
Convenience Store Woman
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
Everything Under
Eye Level: Poems
The Females
Fire Sermon
Flights
Florida
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Freshwater
Friday Black
The Friend
Girls Burn Brighter
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
The Good Son
If You Leave Me
The Immortalists
The Incendiaries
Indian Horse
The Kiss Quotient
Laura & Emma
The Mars Room
Mine: Essays
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Motherhood
My Sister, the Serial Killer
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Naked Woman
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention

[Booknblues]

Okay, I obviously bit off more than I can chew posting Lit Hubs list:

OK, Mr Field
The Order of the Day
The Overstory
The Perfect Nanny
Ponti
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
Restless Souls
The Sky Is Yours
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
The Third Hotel
This Little Art
This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent
Transparent City
Trick
Wild Milk
Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters
The Witch Elm
You Think It, I'll Say It

[Joanne]

https://www.bookish.com/wp-content/up...

Not the book, just the cover??? There is a list for everything!

[Theresa]

I think those following this thread will enjoy this article from The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/re...

[Booknblues]

Theresa wrote: "I think those following this thread will enjoy this article from The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/re..."

Thanks, Theresa, I'm always interested in how they boil down their lists.

[Anne ✨]

So many lists.. so many different books on the lists... I was curious about commonality amongst the lists, so I created a spreadsheet with 15 different lists (lists that had no more than 30 best books) to see which fiction books were showing up more often. The lists are all U.S focused, so bear that in mind. (The lists I used were: Time Magazine, Washington Post, NY Times, Critic Dwight Garner, Huffpost, New Yorker, Audible, Amazon, Bustle, The AV Club, Library Reads, NY Public library, Oprah, Apple, Goodreads Top 10 (popularity), )

Here's a ranking of the fiction books that showed up on at least 3 lists or more.. the number in brackets is the number of lists it showed up on. (There were over 80 books in total, the remaining books were all on 2 or less of the lists)

There There (10)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (8)
An American Marriage (7)
Asymmetry (6)
Circe (6)
Washington Black (6)
Spinning Silver (5)
The Overstory (4)
Children of Blood and Bone (3)
Florida (3)
Heads of the Colored People (3)
Kudos (3)
Severance (3)
The Great Alone (3)
The Kiss Quotient (3)
The Mars Room (3)
The Witch Elm (3)
The Woman in the Window (3)

[Joanne]

Wow! Nice ! Thanks for posting it-I had tried to visually compare lists, and it boggled my mind!

[Booknblues]

Thank you so much, Anne. That was so much work.

[Michael]

Yes, quite the labor of love, Anne. We all could use some kind of funnel to distill the most promising books each year. And get us to the point we can accommodate ehat is coming for next year (and the zillions of worthies from past decades and centuries). At least you can feel you are riding a wave, cutting a path through your TBR ocean.

That NPR list, with so many intriguing reads in nonfiction I never heard of, changes that image for me. But rather than a wipeout maybe I should tweak the metaphor to one of an abundance of waves I could catch for equally fine rides. Somehow I'll come to feeling OK to let a lot of waves pass by.

[LibraryCin]

Thought I'd put in a little plug for Canadian fiction. :-)

Not that I've read any of them (they are all from this year).

CBC Best Canadian Fiction of 2018:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-can...

[Joanne]

LibraryCin wrote: "Thought I'd put in a little plug for Canadian fiction. :-)

Not that I've read any of them (they are all from this year).

CBC Best Canadian Fiction of 2018:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-can..."

I loved French Exit-
The Boat People is on my list to read
I could not get through Warlight

[Joanne]

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Oprahs Best Book list 2018

[Kristel]

LibraryCin wrote: "Thought I'd put in a little plug for Canadian fiction. :-)

Not that I've read any of them (they are all from this year).

CBC Best Canadian Fiction of 2018:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-can..." This is a an interesting list, Cindy.

[Booknblues]

I've read three of the Canadian books and really want to read Starlight.

And 2 on Oprah's list.