The Top 20 books of 2018 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Top 20 Best Books of 2018

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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers rate their favorite books of the year to choose our Top 20 Best of Year titles. More about how the books are selected.

Educated

A Memoir

by Tara Westover

Hardcover: Feb 2018 | Paperback: Feb 2022

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2018 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award

An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

Hardcover: Aug 2018 | Paperback: Mar 2021

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2018 BookBrowse Debut Author Award

How long can you protect your heart?

Circe

by Madeline Miller

Hardcover: Apr 2018 | Paperback: Apr 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2018 BookBrowse Fiction Award

The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song of Achilles.

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Mar 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, a Muslim terrorist group, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for ...

Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou

Hardcover: May 2018 | Paperback: Jan 2020

Critics' Consensus:

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO ...

Unsheltered

A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver

Hardcover: Oct 2018 | Paperback: Oct 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.

The Winter Soldier

by Daniel Mason

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Sep 2019

Critics' Consensus:

By the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War.

The Spy and the Traitor

The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

by Ben Macintyre

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Aug 2019

Critics' Consensus:

The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.

Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

by Beth Macy

Hardcover: Aug 2018 | Paperback: Aug 2019

Critics' Consensus:

The only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: An unforgettable portrait of the families and first responders on the front lines, from a New York Times bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it.

Meet Me at the Museum

by Anne Youngson

Hardcover: Aug 2018 | Paperback: Aug 2019

Critics' Consensus:

Anne Youngson's Meet Me at the Museum is a celebration of long letters, kindred spirits, and the possibility of writing a new story for yourself, at any stage of life.

Washington Black

by Esi Edugyan

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Apr 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling new novel about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

A Story of War and What Comes After

by Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya

Hardcover: Apr 2018 | Paperback: Apr 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us.

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