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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

8,026 members

382 reviews

½ 3.7

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

2

1,352 members

66 reviews

3.8

3 Members: RealLifeReading, kara.shamy, Nexpixel

3

by Genevieve Cogman

1,027 members

43 reviews

4

2 Members: AndrewTrevGriff, Nexpixel

4

by Melissa Albert

4,016 members

158 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Neal Shusterman

4,283 members

109 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

6

Anatomy of a Scandal

by Sarah Vaughan

1,004 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

7

by Sarah Winman

1,255 members

94 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

4,929 members

283 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

9

by Nick Harkaway

929 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

10

Beneath the Sugar Sky

by Seanan McGuire

1,600 members

117 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

4,273 members

219 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

8,958 members

280 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

13

The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks

3,751 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: pagewright, kara.shamy

14

1,449 members

95 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

15

How to Stop Time

3,930 members

161 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

16

Girls Burn Brighter

798 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Justina Ireland

2,100 members

114 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Pretend I'm Dead

250 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Every Note Played

935 members

65 reviews

4.1

2 Members: meap, kara.shamy

20

The Punishment She Deserves

by Elizabeth George

1,061 members

46 reviews

4

Member: meap

21

The Oracle Year

by Charles Soule

649 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi

230 members

11 reviews

3

Member: kara.shamy

23

Where the Crawdads Sing

20,574 members

747 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

24

The Philosopher's Flight

571 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

25

Force of Nature

2,561 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

26

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

4,655 members

261 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

27

by Josiah Bancroft

1,675 members

66 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Gate Keeper

by Charles Todd

409 members

26 reviews

4

Member: meap

29

by Alafair Burke

764 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: meap

30

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

1,399 members

81 reviews

3.8

Member: meap

31

134 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

32

Sky in the Deep

by Adrienne Young

1,897 members

63 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

33

The Death of Mrs Westaway

3,949 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

34

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

1,250 members

70 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

1,181 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Lisa Scottoline

954 members

63 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

37

Tempests and Slaughter

by Tamora Pierce

1,364 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Air You Breathe

by Frances de Pontes Peebles

391 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

39

The Monk of Mokha

848 members

32 reviews

4

Member: Nexpixel

40

Binti: The Night Masquerade

by Nnedi Okorafor

1,176 members

84 reviews

3.9

Member: Nexpixel

41

91 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

42

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

by Shaun David Hutchinson

303 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

43

Children of Blood and Bone

by Tomi Adeyemi

7,911 members

257 reviews

3.9

Member: Nexpixel

44

Artificial Condition

by Martha Wells

4,982 members

266 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

45

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

by M. T. Anderson

432 members

36 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

46

by Steven Brust

200 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Nexpixel

47

by Lisa Halliday

1,214 members

60 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

48

1,676 members

150 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

49

Barbed Wire Heart

165 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

50

by James A. McLaughlin

400 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

51

The Best Bad Things

by Katrina Carrasco

186 members

10 reviews

2.9

Member: kara.shamy

52

The Boat People

312 members

25 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

53

by Thomas Perry

237 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

54

64 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

55

Brightly Burning

344 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

56

2,480 members

181 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

57

Chicago: A Novel

247 members

12 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: kara.shamy

58

by Madeline Miller

18,326 members

579 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

59

432 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

60

Cross Her Heart

by Sarah Pinborough

816 members

48 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

61

The Cruel Prince

12,600 members

255 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

62

A Dangerous Crossing

by Ausma Zehanat Khan

83 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

63

Dark Sacred Night

by Michael Connelly

2,555 members

90 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

64

Daughters of the Storm

281 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

65

355 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

66

Ecstasy: A Novel

by Mary Sharratt

103 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

67

864 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

68

by Stephen McCauley

386 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

69

by Martha Wells

3,933 members

219 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

70

The Favorite Sister

by Jessica Knoll

656 members

37 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

71

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer

1,677 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

72

by Lauren Groff

1,406 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

73

by Robert Jackson Bennett

2,584 members

110 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

74

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,506 members

59 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

75

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

1,109 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

76

by Sigrid Nunez

1,881 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

77

Give Me Your Hand

by Megan Abbott

825 members

47 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

78

Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel

by Taylor Brown

216 members

23 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

79

The Golden State

by Lydia Kiesling

221 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

80

by Tom Sweterlitsch

1,177 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

81

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

7,815 members

332 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

82

Greeks Bearing Gifts

577 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

83

by Sam Graham-Felsen

167 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

84

by Megan Shepherd

542 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

85

by Jennifer Clement

277 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

86

Happy Doomsday: A Novel

by David Sosnowski

167 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

87

The Hellfire Club

451 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

88

Hope Never Dies

by Andrew Shaffer

931 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

89

The House of Broken Angels

by Luis Alberto Urrea

959 members

57 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

90

How It Happened

by Michael Koryta

390 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

91

1,432 members

67 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

92

It Ends With Her

by Brianna Labuskes

205 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

93

Invitation to a Bonfire

by Adrienne Celt

106 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

94

The King of Bones and Ashes

133 members

11 reviews

3

Member: kara.shamy

95

The Kinship of Secrets

175 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

96

by Martha Grimes

393 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

97

816 members

24 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

98

A Ladder to the Sky

1,031 members

70 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

99

by Gary Shteyngart

639 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

100

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

251 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

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January 2018
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