top five favorite books of the year are marked with a *.

fiction

• the best american short stories 2018 ed. roxane gay
• all the birds, singing by evie wyld
• annihilation (southern reach #1) by jeff vandermeer
• authority (southern reach #2) by jeff vandermeer
• acceptance (southern reach #3) by jeff vandermeer
• big bad love: stories by larry brown
• birds of america: stories by lorrie moore
• call me by your name by andre aciman
• can you forgive her? by anthony trollope
• eat only when you're hungry by lindsay hunter
• eleanor oliphant is completely fine by gail honeyman
• girls on fire by robin wasserman
• gun love by jennifer clement
• half of a yellow sun by chimamanda ngozi adichie*
• homesick for another world: stories by ottessa moshfegh
• kitchens of the great midwest by j. ryan stradal
• lake success by gary shteyngart
• manhattan beach by jennifer egan*
• outline by rachel cusk
• play it as it lays by joan didion
• red clocks by leni zumas*
• revenge: eleven dark tales by yoko ogawa
• sleeping giants by sylvain neuvel
• sour heart: stories by jenny zhang
• sudden rain by maritta wolff
• sweetbitter by stephanie danler
• the art of fielding by chad harbach
• the danish girl by david ebershoff
• the dark dark: stories by samantha hunt
• the death of mrs. westaway by ruth ware
• the ghost notebooks by ben dolnick
• the golden state by lydia kiesling
• the house of impossible beauties by joseph cassara
• the island by elin hilderbrand
• the mars room by rachel kushner
• the pisces by melissa broder*
• the wangs vs the world by jade chang
• the woman in the window by a.j. finn
• tin man by sarah winman
• treasure island!!! by sara levine
• two girls down by louisa luna
• what belongs to you by garth greenwell
• you should have known by jean hanff korelitz
• you think it, i'll say it: stories by curtis sittenfeld

non-fiction

• a colony in a nation by chris hayes*
• all the single ladies by rebecca traister
• and now we have everything by meaghan o'connell
• becoming nicole by amy ellis nutt
• behind the beautiful forevers by katherine boo
• between the world & me by ta-nehisi coates
• black dahlia, red rose by piu eatwell
• born a crime by trevor noah
• dead girls: essays on surviving an american obsession by alice bolin
• everything you love will burn: inside the rebith of white nationalism in america by vegas tenold
• fire & fury by michael wolff
• first they killed my father by loung ung
• i'll be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara
• not that bad: dispatches from rape culture ed. roxane gay
• slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion
• so sad today: personal essays by melissa broder
• the disaster artist by greg sestero
• the emperor of all maladies by siddhartha mukherjee
• the idiot girls' action-adventure club by laurie notaro
• the looming tower by lawrence wright
• the rules do not apply by ariel levy
• unbelievable by katy tur

young adult/juvenile

• all out: the no longer secret stories of queer teens throughout the ages ed. saundra mitchell
• daughter of smoke & bone by laini taylor (reread)
• genuine fraud by e. lockhart
• heidi by johanna spyri
• i am not your perfect mexican daughter by erika l. sanchez
• love, hate & other filters by samira ahmed
• none of the above by i.w. gregorio
• simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli
• the astonishing color of after by emily x.r. pan
• the lightning thief (percy jackson #1) by rick riordan
• the upside of unrequited by becky albertalli

graphic novels

• american vampire vol. 1 by scott snyder & stephen king
• black panther: a nation under our feet by ta-nehisi coates
• black panther: world of wakanda by roxane gay
• road to riverdale by mark waid, chip zdarsky, et al.