The Best Books We Read In 2018

One editor’s list does not reflect the preferences of the other editors

The Recovering by Leslie Jamison

When Watched by Leopoldine Core

Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso

Autoportrait by Edouard Leve

The Original Face by Guillaume Morissette

The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane

Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson

My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Incest Diary by Anonymous

God Was Right by Diana Hamilton

The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert

I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadijah Queen

The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane

Dead Girls by Alice Bolin

Idiophone by Amy Fusselman

Starvation Mode by Elissa Washuta

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

2019

This unfortunate thing you can’t really pinpoint - an interview with Lydia Kiesling

This unfortunate thing you can’t really pinpoint - an interview with Lydia Kiesling