New York Public Library Best Books: For Adults2018

Given by New York Public Library (NYPL)

Other Names: New York Public Library Best Book, New York Public Library Best Books, NYPL Best Books for Adults
99 Works / 109 Items 125,040 Books 6,266 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Top Ten (70), Top Ten Poetry Books (20), No Stage (465)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (70), 2022 (72), 2021 (105), 2020 (100), 2019 (99), 2018 (109)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent

Top Ten 20

WorkYear
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar2018
If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar2018
French Exit by Patrick deWitt2018
French Exit by Patrick deWitt2018
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal2018
Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara2018
Circe by Madeline Miller2018
Circe by Madeline Miller2018
A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee2018
A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee2018
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik2018
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik2018
There There by Tommy Orange2018
There There by Tommy Orange2018

No Stage 89

WorkCategoryYear
The Flight Attendant by Chris BohjalianEdge-of-your-Seat Reads2018
The Woman in the Window by Daniel MalloryEdge-of-your-Seat Reads2018
The Wife Between Us by Greer HendricksEdge-of-your-Seat Reads2018
The Perfect Mother by Aimee MolloyEdge-of-your-Seat Reads2018
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth WareEdge-of-your-Seat Reads2018
Semiosis by Sue BurkeEscape to Another World2018
The Melody by Jim CraceEscape to Another World2018
Annex by Rich LarsonEscape to Another World2018
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha LeeEscape to Another World2018
The Lost Queen by Signe PikeEscape to Another World2018
The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang SmithEscape to Another World2018
Space Opera by Catherynne M. ValenteEscape to Another World2018
The Immortalists by Chloe BenjaminFiction2018
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine CastilloFiction2018
Brother by David ChariandyFiction2018
Kudos by Rachel CuskFiction2018
The Great Alone by Kristin HannahFiction2018
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan HollinghurstFiction2018
An American Marriage by Tayari JonesFiction2018
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel KushnerFiction2018
The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiFiction2018
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghFiction2018
The Friend by Sigrid NunezFiction2018
The Overstory by Richard PowersFiction2018
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha RaoFiction2018
Winter by Ali SmithFiction2018
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto UrreaFiction2018
Red Clocks by Leni ZumasFiction2018
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan AlagbéFor Art Lovers2018
About Betty's Boob by Véro CazotFor Art Lovers2018
Sabrina by Nick DrnasoFor Art Lovers2018
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life by Ellen ForneyFor Art Lovers2018
Shit is Real by Aisha FranzFor Art Lovers2018
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories by Peter KuperFor Art Lovers2018
All The Answers by Michael KuppermanFor Art Lovers2018
Prism Stalker Volume 1 by Sloane LeongFor Art Lovers2018
Berlin by Jason LutesFor Art Lovers2018
Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark RussellFor Art Lovers2018
Monster Portraits by Sofia SamatarFor Art Lovers2018
On a Sunbeam by Tillie WaldenFor Art Lovers2018
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke BolanderFor History Lovers2018
The Tuscan Child by Rhys BowenFor History Lovers2018
White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin DempseyFor History Lovers2018
I Was Anastasia by Ariel LawhonFor History Lovers2018
As Bright as Heaven by Susan MeissnerFor History Lovers2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather MorrisFor History Lovers2018
Warlight by Michael OndaatjeFor History Lovers2018
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence WrightFor History Lovers2018
White Houses by Amy BloomLove Stories2018
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie DawsonLove Stories2018
The Proposal by Jasmine GuilloryLove Stories2018
The Wedding Date by Jasmine GuilloryLove Stories2018
The Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangLove Stories2018
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina LaurenLove Stories2018
Bad Reputation by Stefanie LondonLove Stories2018
Time Was by Ian McDonaldLove Stories2018
Love and Ruin by Paula McLainLove Stories2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander CheeMemoir2018
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C. CooperMemoir2018
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-WardMemoir2018
The Monk of Mokha by Dave EggersMemoir2018
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie JamisonMemoir2018
Calypso by David SedarisMemoir2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverMemoir2018
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol AndersonNon-Fiction2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantúNon-Fiction2018
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna ClarkNon-Fiction2018
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane CrosleyNon-Fiction2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngeloNon-Fiction2018
The Cost of Living by Deborah LevyNon-Fiction2018
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie MooreNon-Fiction2018
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja NobleNon-Fiction2018
Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series) by Daniel BorzutzkyPoetry2018
New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. ErdrichPoetry2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance HayesPoetry2018
Cenzontle (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America) by Marcelo Hernandez CastilloPoetry2018
Kindest Regards: New and Selected by Ted KooserPoetry2018
The Carrying: Poems by Ada LimónPoetry2018
Not Here by Hieu Minh NguyenPoetry2018
Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets) by José OlivarezPoetry2018
Junk by Tommy PicoPoetry2018
The Final Voicemails: Poems by Max RitvoPoetry2018
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. SmithPoetry2018
Eye Level: Poems by Jenny XiePoetry2018
Brown: Poems by Kevin YoungPoetry2018
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWittShort Stories2018
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis JohnsonShort Stories2018
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis SittenfeldShort Stories2018
Last Stories by William TrevorShort Stories2018

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