December 6, 2018
The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Other books on the list included Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani, There There by Tommy Orange, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, American Prison by Shane Bauer, Educated by Tara Westover, Frederick Douglass by David W. Bligh, and Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs.