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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

6,137 members

338 reviews

3.8

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

2

1,130 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: RealLifeReading, kara.shamy, Nexpixel

3

by Genevieve Cogman

806 members

33 reviews

4

2 Members: AndrewTrevGriff, Nexpixel

4

by Melissa Albert

3,169 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Neal Shusterman

2,766 members

92 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

6

Anatomy of a Scandal

by Sarah Vaughan

802 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

7

by Sarah Winman

963 members

81 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

3,967 members

257 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

9

by Nick Harkaway

779 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

10

Beneath the Sugar Sky

by Seanan McGuire

1,333 members

104 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

3,371 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

6,181 members

233 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

13

The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks

2,900 members

232 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: pagewright, kara.shamy

14

1,196 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

15

How to Stop Time

2,796 members

135 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

16

Girls Burn Brighter

671 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Justina Ireland

1,724 members

109 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

799 members

57 reviews

4.1

2 Members: meap, kara.shamy

20

The Punishment She Deserves

by Elizabeth George

897 members

39 reviews

4

Member: meap

21

The Oracle Year

by Charles Soule

549 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

14,292 members

618 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

24

The Philosopher's Flight

482 members

26 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

25

Force of Nature

2,102 members

143 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

26

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

3,048 members

197 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

27

by Josiah Bancroft

1,278 members

53 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Gate Keeper

by Charles Todd

346 members

22 reviews

4

Member: meap

29

by Alafair Burke

630 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: meap

30

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

1,158 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

1,421 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

33

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

2,955 members

155 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

34

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

991 members

59 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

933 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Lisa Scottoline

794 members

62 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

37

Tempests and Slaughter

by Tamora Pierce

1,099 members

40 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Air You Breathe

by Frances de Pontes Peebles

333 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

39

The Monk of Mokha

716 members

28 reviews

4

Member: Nexpixel

40

Binti: The Night Masquerade

by Nnedi Okorafor

983 members

75 reviews

4

Member: Nexpixel

41

76 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

42

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

by Shaun David Hutchinson

260 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

43

Children of Blood and Bone

by Tomi Adeyemi

5,774 members

222 reviews

3.9

Member: Nexpixel

44

Artificial Condition

by Martha Wells

3,298 members

200 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

45

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

by M. T. Anderson

341 members

33 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

46

by Steven Brust

168 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: Nexpixel

47

Asymmetry: A Novel

by Lisa Halliday

1,027 members

56 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

48

1,260 members

127 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

49

Barbed Wire Heart

135 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

50

by James A. McLaughlin

329 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

253 members

22 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

53

by Thomas Perry

204 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

1,863 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

12,395 members

480 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

59

344 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

60

Cross Her Heart

by Sarah Pinborough

644 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

61

The Cruel Prince

7,416 members

201 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

62

A Dangerous Crossing

by Ausma Zehanat Khan

74 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

63

Dark Sacred Night

by Michael Connelly

2,040 members

76 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

64

Daughters of the Storm

240 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

65

272 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

678 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

68

My Ex-Life: A Novel

by Stephen McCauley

329 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

69

by Martha Wells

2,622 members

168 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

70

The Favorite Sister

by Jessica Knoll

506 members

38 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

71

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer

1,375 members

62 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

72

by Lauren Groff

1,137 members

61 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

73

by Robert Jackson Bennett

1,745 members

87 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

74

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,137 members

50 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

75

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

856 members

49 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

76

by Sigrid Nunez

1,352 members

91 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

77

Give Me Your Hand

by Megan Abbott

692 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

78

Gods of Howl Mountain

by Taylor Brown

182 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

826 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

81

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

4,975 members

257 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

82

Greeks Bearing Gifts

492 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

446 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

85

by Jennifer Clement

251 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

86

by David Sosnowski

128 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

87

The Hellfire Club

372 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

88

Hope Never Dies

by Andrew Shaffer

723 members

53 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

89

The House of Broken Angels

by Luis Alberto Urrea

782 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

1,064 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

92

It Ends With Her

by Brianna Labuskes

165 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

154 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

96

by Martha Grimes

342 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

97

596 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

98

A Ladder to the Sky

859 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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