The Best Books We Read In 2018
One editor’s list does not reflect the preferences of the other editors
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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
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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
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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