The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2018 Collection

Selected from books that have been reviewed in the NYT Sunday Book Review since the previous year's list was published.

Fiction & Poetry

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones. (Algonquin)
Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday. (Simon & Schuster)
Brown: Poems - Kevin Young. (Knopf)
Cherry - Nico Walker. (Knopf)
Crudo - Olivia Laing. (Norton)
Early Work - Andrew Martin. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Eternal Life - Dara Horn. (Norton)
Everything Under - Daisy Johnson.(Graywolf)
The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer. (Riverhead)
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi. (Grove Atlantic)
Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez. (Riverhead)
Go, Went, Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck. Translated by Susan Bernofsky. (New Directions)
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai. (Viking)
The House of Broken Angels - Luis Alberto Urrea. (Little, Brown)
Immigrant, Montana - Amitava Kumar. (Knopf)
Improvement - Joan Silber. (Counterpoint)
In Every Moment We Still Are Alive - Tom Malmquist. Translated by Henning Koch. (Melville House)
The Kites - Romain Gary. Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot. (New Directions)
Kudos - Rachel Cusk. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Lake Success - Gary Shteyngart. (Random House)
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories - Denis Johnson. (Random House)
Last Stories - William Trevor. (Viking)
Macbeth - Jo Nesbø. Translated by Don Bartlett. (Hogarth)
The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner. (Scribner)
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - Dorthe Nors. (Graywolf)
My Struggle: Book 6 - Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken. (Archipelago)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh. (Penguin Press)
The Neighborhood - Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Edith Grossman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Odyssey - Homer. Translated by Emily Wilson. (Norton)
Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel - Lawrence Osborne. (Hogarth)
The Overstory - Richard Powers. (Norton)
The Parking Lot Attendant - Nafkote Tamirat. (Holt)
The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani. Translated by Sam Taylor. (Penguin)
A Princess in Theory - Alyssa Cole. (Avon)
Property - Lionel Shriver. (Harper/HarperCollins)
Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories - Christine Schutt. (Grove)
Sabrina - Nick Drnaso. (Drawn and Quarterly)
Severance - Ling Ma. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Slave Old Man - Patrick Chamoiseau. Translated by Linda Coverdale. (New Press)
The Sparsholt Affair - Alan Hollinghurst. (Knopf)
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik. (Del Rey)
A State of Freedom - Neel Mukherjee. (Norton)
There There - Tommy Orange. (Knopf)
A View of the Empire at Sunset - Caryl Phillips. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Wade in the Water: Poems - Tracy K. Smith. (Graywolf)
Warlight - Michael Ondaatje. (Knopf)
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan. (Knopf)
The Witch Elm - Tana French. (Viking)
Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories - Deborah Eisenberg. (Ecco/HarperCollins)

Nonfiction

Ali: A Life - Jonathan Eig. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us - Joseph J. Ellis. (Knopf)
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic - Victoria Johnson. (Liveright)
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment - Shane Bauer. (Penguin Press)
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Eliza Griswold. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Arthur Ashe: A Life - Raymond Arsenault. (Simon & Schuster)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou. (Knopf)
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 - Sam Anderson. (Crown)
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War - Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple. (One World)
Calypso - David Sedaris. (Little, Brown)
Churchill: Walking With Destiny - Andrew Roberts. (Viking)
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. (Penguin Press)
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography - Deborah Levy. (Bloomsbury)
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World - Adam Tooze. (Viking)
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World - Catherine Nixey. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession - Alice Bolin. (Morrow/HarperCollins)
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy - Paige Williams. (Hachette)
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America - Beth Macy. (Little, Brown)
Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover. (Random House)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - Steven Pinker. (Viking)
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind - Michael Massing. (Harper)
Feel Free: Essays - Zadie Smith. (Penguin Press)
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War - Joanne B. Freeman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis. (Norton)
Fly Girls - Keith O’Brien. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom - David W. Blight. (Simon & Schuster)
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 - Ramachandra Guha. (Knopf)
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State - Lawrence Wright. (Knopf)
Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon. (Scribner)
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan. (Penguin Press)
In Pieces - Sally Field. (Grand Central)
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro - Rachel Slade. (Ecco/HarperCollins)
The Library Book - Susan Orlean. (Simon & Schuster)
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry - Imani Perry. (Beacon)
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore. (Nation Books)
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria - Rania Abouzeid. (Norton)
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown - Lauren Hilgers. (Crown)
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Deborah Blum. (Penguin Press)
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations - Ronen Bergman. (Random House)
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity - Carl Zimmer. (Dutton)
Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs. (Grove)
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang. (Norton)
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life - David Quammen. (Simon & Schuster)
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir - Casey Gerald. (Riverhead)
These Truths: A History of the United States - Jill Lepore. (Norton)
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights - Adam Winkler. (Liveright)
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City - Mona Hanna-Attisha. (One World)
Why Comics? - From Underground to Everywhere - Hillary L. Chute. (HarperCollins)
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas. (Knopf)