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Amazon best fictional genre picks monthly for 2018

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Woman in the Window

by Daniel Mallory

6,164 members

341 reviews

3.8

4 Members: pagewright, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

2

1,132 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: RealLifeReading, kara.shamy, Nexpixel

3

by Genevieve Cogman

811 members

33 reviews

4

2 Members: AndrewTrevGriff, Nexpixel

4

by Melissa Albert

3,210 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Neal Shusterman

2,794 members

92 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

6

Anatomy of a Scandal

by Sarah Vaughan

804 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

7

by Sarah Winman

971 members

81 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

3,979 members

257 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

9

by Nick Harkaway

783 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

10

Beneath the Sugar Sky

by Seanan McGuire

1,346 members

104 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

3,399 members

193 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

6,241 members

233 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

13

The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks

2,928 members

232 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: pagewright, kara.shamy

14

1,203 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

15

How to Stop Time

2,824 members

135 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

16

Girls Burn Brighter

674 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Justina Ireland

1,739 members

110 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Pretend I'm Dead

199 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Every Note Played

805 members

57 reviews

4.1

2 Members: meap, kara.shamy

20

The Punishment She Deserves

by Elizabeth George

899 members

39 reviews

4

Member: meap

21

The Oracle Year

by Charles Soule

552 members

29 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi

203 members

9 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

23

Where the Crawdads Sing

14,409 members

622 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

24

The Philosopher's Flight

485 members

26 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

25

Force of Nature

2,116 members

143 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

26

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

3,073 members

197 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

27

by Josiah Bancroft

1,290 members

54 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Gate Keeper

by Charles Todd

348 members

22 reviews

4

Member: meap

29

by Alafair Burke

637 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: meap

30

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

1,167 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: meap

31

120 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

32

Sky in the Deep

by Adrienne Young

1,436 members

61 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

33

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

2,978 members

155 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

34

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

996 members

60 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

942 members

48 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Lisa Scottoline

806 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

37

Tempests and Slaughter

by Tamora Pierce

1,109 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Air You Breathe

by Frances de Pontes Peebles

335 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

39

The Monk of Mokha

718 members

28 reviews

4

Member: Nexpixel

40

Binti: The Night Masquerade

by Nnedi Okorafor

986 members

75 reviews

4

Member: Nexpixel

41

78 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

42

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

by Shaun David Hutchinson

262 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

43

Children of Blood and Bone

by Tomi Adeyemi

5,825 members

222 reviews

3.9

Member: Nexpixel

44

Artificial Condition

by Martha Wells

3,321 members

204 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

45

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

by M. T. Anderson

342 members

33 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

46

by Steven Brust

171 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: Nexpixel

47

Asymmetry: A Novel

by Lisa Halliday

1,034 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

48

1,270 members

128 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

49

Barbed Wire Heart

136 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

50

by James A. McLaughlin

332 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

51

The Best Bad Things

by Katrina Carrasco

136 members

8 reviews

3

Member: kara.shamy

52

The Boat People

255 members

23 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

53

by Thomas Perry

205 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

54

57 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

55

Brightly Burning

291 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

56

1,880 members

159 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

57

Chicago: A Novel

201 members

12 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: kara.shamy

58

by Madeline Miller

12,515 members

481 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

59

346 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

60

Cross Her Heart

by Sarah Pinborough

651 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

61

The Cruel Prince

7,505 members

202 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

62

A Dangerous Crossing

by Ausma Zehanat Khan

75 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

63

Dark Sacred Night

by Michael Connelly

2,052 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

64

Daughters of the Storm

244 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

65

276 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

66

Ecstasy: A Novel

by Mary Sharratt

88 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

67

686 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

68

My Ex-Life: A Novel

by Stephen McCauley

331 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

69

by Martha Wells

2,639 members

169 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

70

The Favorite Sister

by Jessica Knoll

508 members

38 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

71

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer

1,383 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

72

by Lauren Groff

1,152 members

61 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

73

by Robert Jackson Bennett

1,776 members

89 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

74

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,144 members

50 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

75

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

859 members

51 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

76

by Sigrid Nunez

1,360 members

91 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

77

Give Me Your Hand

by Megan Abbott

693 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

78

Gods of Howl Mountain

by Taylor Brown

183 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

79

The Golden State

by Lydia Kiesling

203 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

80

by Tom Sweterlitsch

836 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

81

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

5,014 members

259 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

82

Greeks Bearing Gifts

494 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

83

by Sam Graham-Felsen

152 members

18 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

84

by Megan Shepherd

450 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

85

by Jennifer Clement

253 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

86

by David Sosnowski

129 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

87

The Hellfire Club

374 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

88

Hope Never Dies

by Andrew Shaffer

725 members

53 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

89

The House of Broken Angels

by Luis Alberto Urrea

792 members

50 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

90

How It Happened

by Michael Koryta

324 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

91

1,075 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

92

It Ends With Her

by Brianna Labuskes

166 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

93

Invitation to a Bonfire

by Adrienne Celt

94 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

94

The King of Bones and Ashes

118 members

10 reviews

2.9

Member: kara.shamy

95

The Kinship of Secrets

153 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

96

by Martha Grimes

343 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

97

597 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

98

A Ladder to the Sky

858 members

61 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

99

by Gary Shteyngart

546 members

33 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

100

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

209 members

8 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

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