Barnes and Noble Announces their List of Best Books of 2018

The Best Books of 2018 as curated by Barnes & Noble are:

Best Books of 2018

• An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, Zora Neale Hurston
• Becoming, Michelle Obama
• Calypso, David Sedaris
• Circe, Madeline Miller
• Educated, Tara Westover
• Fire & Blood, George R. R. Martin
• Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
• The President is Missing, Bill Clinton and James Patterson
• The Reckoning, John Grisham
• The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
• There There, Tommy Orange
• Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver

Best Fiction

• A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza
• A Spark of Light, Jodi Picoult
• An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
• Circe, Madeline Miller
• Clock Dance, Anne Tyler
• Every Breath, Nicholas Sparks
• The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer
• The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
• The Hellfire Club, Jake Tapper
• The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
• The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
• The Perfect Couple, Elin Hilderbrand
• There There, Tommy Orange
• Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

Best Thrillers & Suspense

• After Anna, Lisa Scottoline
• Dark Sacred Night, Michael Connelly
• Kingdom of the Blind, Louise Penny
• Lethal White, Robert Galbraith
• Long Road to Mercy, David Baldacci
• Mycroft and Sherlock, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Robicheaux, James Lee Burke
• The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ruth Ware
• The Disappeared, C.J. Box
• The Escape Artist, Brad Meltzer
• The Other Woman, Daniel Silva
• The Outsider, Stephen King
• The President is Missing, Bill Clinton and James Patterson
• The Reckoning, John Grisham
• The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn

Best History & Current Affairs

• Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright
• Fear, Bob Woodward
• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth,Sarah Smarsh
• I’ll be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara
• In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Nathaniel Philbrick
• Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Lincoln’s Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency, Dan Abrams
• On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle, Hampton Sides
• Presidents of War, Michael Beschloss
• The Library Book, Susan Orlean
• The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations, John McCain
• The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Jon Meacham
• These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore
• 21 Lessons for the 21^stCentury, Yuval Noah Harari

Best YA

• A Map of Days: The Fourth Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children,Ransom Riggs
• Bridge of Clay, Markus Zusak
• Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
• Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel, Val Emmich
• Dry, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
• Kingdom of Ash, Sarah J. Maas
• Leah on the Offbeat, Becky Albertalli
• #MurderTrending, Gretchen McNeil
• Queen of Air and Darkness, Cassandra Clare
• Sadie, Courtney Summers
• Seafire, Natalie C. Parker
• The Cheerleaders, Kara Thomas
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
• The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert
• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, Lauren James
• The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, David Arnold
• Thunderhead, Neal Shusterman
• War Storm, Victoria Aveyard
• What If It’s Us, Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Best Young Readers

• Amal Unbound,Aisha Saeed
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown, Jeff Kinney
• Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas, Dav Pilkey
• Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday, Rachel Renée Russell
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, J.K. Rowling
• Flashback, Shannon Messenger
• Illegal, Eoin Colfer
• Louisiana’s Way Home, Kate DiCamillo
• Making Friends, Kristen Gudsnuk
• Monstrous Devices, Damien Love
• Sheets, Brenna Thummler
• Short & Skinny, Mark Tatulli
• Spy School Goes South, Stuart Gibbs
• Squirm, Carl Hiaasen
• Sunny, Jason Reynolds
• The Hive Queen, Tui T. Sutherland
• The Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic Beyond, Max Brallier
• The Magic Misfits: The Second Story, Neil Patrick Harris
• The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, Stacy McAnulty
• The Storm Runner, J.C. Cervantes
• The Wild Robot Escapes, Peter Brown

Best Kids’ Books

• Be Kind, Pat Zietlow Miller
• Builder Brothers: Big Plans, Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott
• Dear Girl,, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Elbow Grease, John Cena
• Fiona the Hippo, Richard Cowdrey
• Grumpy Monkey, Suzanne Lang
• I Lost My Tooth!, Mo Willems
• I’ve Loved You Since Forever, Hoda Kotb
• Little Blue Truck’s Springtime, Alice Schertle
• Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
• Princesses Save the World, Savannah Guthrie
• She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History,Chelsea Clinton
• She’s Got This, Laurie Hernandez
• The Day You Begin, Jacqueline Woodson
• We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, Ryan T. Higgins
• What Do You Do with a Chance?, Kobi Yamada

To see all of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of 2018, including lists for biography, personal growth, cookbooks, science fiction, and graphic novels, go to BN.com.