NPR's Best Books of 2018

1.
Circe
Circe 4.22 avg rating — 1,276,315 ratings
2.
Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,541 ratings
3.
My Sister, the Serial Killer
My Sister, the Serial Killer 3.65 avg rating — 332,383 ratings
4.
An American Marriage
An American Marriage 3.93 avg rating — 379,515 ratings
5.
Drawn Together
Drawn Together
by: Minh Lê
4.41 avg rating — 6,163 ratings
6.
The Overstory
The Overstory 4.12 avg rating — 185,959 ratings
7.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,628 ratings
8.
The Friend
The Friend 3.74 avg rating — 54,697 ratings
9.
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
by: Nora Krug
4.32 avg rating — 9,226 ratings
10.
Educated
Educated 4.47 avg rating — 1,772,860 ratings
11.
Freshwater
Freshwater 4.01 avg rating — 35,600 ratings
12.
The Great Believers
The Great Believers 4.29 avg rating — 161,762 ratings
13.
Bingo Love
Bingo Love 3.92 avg rating — 9,784 ratings
14.
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2) 4.21 avg rating — 28,037 ratings
15.
The Electric State (Tales from the Loop, #3)
The Electric State (Tales from the Loop, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 8,577 ratings
16.
Sea Prayer
Sea Prayer 4.11 avg rating — 59,560 ratings
17.
All You Can Ever Know
All You Can Ever Know 3.85 avg rating — 26,098 ratings
18.
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready 3.91 avg rating — 7,221 ratings
19.
Give Me Your Hand
Give Me Your Hand 3.31 avg rating — 21,691 ratings
20.
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,082 ratings
21.
The Golden State
The Golden State 3.68 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
21.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,211 ratings
23.
The Winter Soldier
The Winter Soldier 3.99 avg rating — 17,143 ratings
24.
Asymmetry
Asymmetry 3.43 avg rating — 29,338 ratings
25.
The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior 4.10 avg rating — 4,373 ratings
26.
Be Prepared
Be Prepared 4.06 avg rating — 20,273 ratings
27.
Washington Black
Washington Black 3.95 avg rating — 70,652 ratings
28.
Cake: A Cookbook
Cake: A Cookbook 4.14 avg rating — 385 ratings
29.
Unsheltered
Unsheltered 3.67 avg rating — 77,134 ratings
30.
Transcription
Transcription 3.49 avg rating — 58,981 ratings
31.
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 27,078 ratings
32.
Amal Unbound
Amal Unbound 4.17 avg rating — 18,562 ratings
32.
America Is Not the Heart
America Is Not the Heart 3.97 avg rating — 5,636 ratings
32.
The Prince and the Dressmaker
The Prince and the Dressmaker
by: Jen Wang
4.33 avg rating — 119,668 ratings
35.
The Female Persuasion
The Female Persuasion 3.56 avg rating — 57,521 ratings
35.
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America 4.59 avg rating — 918 ratings
37.
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment 4.23 avg rating — 12,498 ratings
37.
Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles 4.27 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
39.
Florida
Florida 3.77 avg rating — 34,595 ratings
40.
Infidel
Infidel 3.84 avg rating — 3,517 ratings
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Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories 3.55 avg rating — 2,647 ratings
40.
Why Art?
Why Art? 3.89 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
43.
Sabrina
Sabrina 3.83 avg rating — 16,830 ratings
43.
You Think It, I'll Say It
You Think It, I'll Say It 3.64 avg rating — 43,718 ratings
45.
Tell the Machine Goodnight
Tell the Machine Goodnight 3.46 avg rating — 7,063 ratings
45.
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1)
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 160,340 ratings
47.
Love
Love 4.24 avg rating — 5,551 ratings
48.
All the Names They Used for God
All the Names They Used for God 4.03 avg rating — 6,637 ratings
48.
The Way You Make Me Feel
The Way You Make Me Feel 3.78 avg rating — 8,205 ratings
50.
Terra Nullius
Terra Nullius 3.75 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
51.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World 4.13 avg rating — 16,951 ratings
52.
Girls Burn Brighter
Girls Burn Brighter 3.77 avg rating — 25,066 ratings
53.
Gnomon
Gnomon 3.84 avg rating — 6,450 ratings
53.
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
by: Ellen Oh
3.77 avg rating — 6,085 ratings
55.
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger 4.37 avg rating — 11,930 ratings
56.
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 4.11 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
57.
Back Talk
Back Talk 3.72 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
58.
Warlight
Warlight 3.60 avg rating — 46,238 ratings
59.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating — 276,369 ratings
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Census
Census 3.42 avg rating — 3,664 ratings
61.
Varina
Varina 3.66 avg rating — 14,112 ratings
62.
City of Ash and Red
City of Ash and Red 3.13 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
63.
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 245,789 ratings
64.
Those Who Knew
Those Who Knew 3.41 avg rating — 2,665 ratings
65.
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution 4.10 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
66.
Calypso
Calypso 4.11 avg rating — 142,991 ratings
67.
Come Again
Come Again 3.16 avg rating — 994 ratings
68.
The Chalk Man
The Chalk Man 3.70 avg rating — 119,322 ratings
69.
Dreamers
Dreamers 4.43 avg rating — 6,865 ratings
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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling 3.73 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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Coyote Doggirl
Coyote Doggirl 3.83 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
72.
Emergency Contact
Emergency Contact 3.63 avg rating — 45,836 ratings
73.
Fascism: A Warning
Fascism: A Warning 4.25 avg rating — 20,517 ratings
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1947: Where Now Begins
1947: Where Now Begins 3.93 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
75.
84K
84K 3.24 avg rating — 5,465 ratings
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The Foreign Cinema Cookbook: Recipes and Stories Under the Stars
The Foreign Cinema Cookbook: Recipes and Stories Under the Stars 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
75.
The Summer of Jordi Perez
The Summer of Jordi Perez 3.84 avg rating — 5,270 ratings
75.
Scribe
Scribe 3.18 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
75.
Midden
Midden 4.45 avg rating — 67 ratings
75.
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir 3.17 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
81.
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children 3.93 avg rating — 2,242 ratings
81.
Forever or a Day
Forever or a Day 3.66 avg rating — 602 ratings
83.
All the Animals Where I Live
All the Animals Where I Live 3.57 avg rating — 478 ratings
83.
The Night Diary
The Night Diary 4.21 avg rating — 19,980 ratings
83.
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir 3.73 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
83.
The Wrong Heaven
The Wrong Heaven 3.98 avg rating — 888 ratings
87.
All the Answers
All the Answers 4.07 avg rating — 4,317 ratings
87.
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein 3.90 avg rating — 22,453 ratings
87.
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands 4.22 avg rating — 947 ratings
90.
From Twinkle, with Love
From Twinkle, with Love 3.60 avg rating — 10,866 ratings
91.
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
Front Desk (Front Desk #1) 4.37 avg rating — 43,700 ratings
91.
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 94,136 ratings
93.
Full Disclosure
Full Disclosure 3.58 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
93.
Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
by: C.L. Polk
3.86 avg rating — 15,986 ratings
95.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by: Ruth Ware
3.80 avg rating — 194,085 ratings
95.
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side 4.38 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
95.
The Witch Elm
The Witch Elm 3.58 avg rating — 107,571 ratings
98.
American Hate: Survivors Speak Out
American Hate: Survivors Speak Out 4.24 avg rating — 178 ratings
98.
A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram
A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram 4.23 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Eternity Girl
Eternity Girl 3.62 avg rating — 869 ratings
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