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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

8,073 members

385 reviews

½ 3.7

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

2

1,360 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: RealLifeReading, kara.shamy, Nexpixel

3

by Genevieve Cogman

1,035 members

43 reviews

4

2 Members: AndrewTrevGriff, Nexpixel

4

by Melissa Albert

4,050 members

159 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Neal Shusterman

4,298 members

109 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

6

Anatomy of a Scandal

by Sarah Vaughan

1,010 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

7

by Sarah Winman

1,264 members

94 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

4,969 members

284 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

9

by Nick Harkaway

937 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

10

Beneath the Sugar Sky

by Seanan McGuire

1,610 members

118 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

4,286 members

221 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: Nexpixel, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

9,002 members

281 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

13

The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks

3,791 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: pagewright, kara.shamy

14

1,453 members

95 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

15

How to Stop Time

3,968 members

162 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

16

Girls Burn Brighter

800 members

43 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Justina Ireland

2,119 members

115 reviews

4.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Pretend I'm Dead

254 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Every Note Played

938 members

65 reviews

4.1

2 Members: meap, kara.shamy

20

The Punishment She Deserves

by Elizabeth George

1,067 members

46 reviews

4

Member: meap

21

The Oracle Year

by Charles Soule

650 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi

232 members

12 reviews

3

Member: kara.shamy

23

Where the Crawdads Sing

20,831 members

752 reviews

4.1

2 Members: kara.shamy, stephjones01

24

The Philosopher's Flight

572 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

25

Force of Nature

2,562 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, Nexpixel

26

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

4,714 members

260 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

27

by Josiah Bancroft

1,693 members

67 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Gate Keeper

by Charles Todd

409 members

26 reviews

4

Member: meap

29

by Alafair Burke

766 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: meap

30

The Widows of Malabar Hill

by Sujata Massey

1,407 members

82 reviews

3.8

Member: meap

31

134 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

32

Sky in the Deep

by Adrienne Young

1,910 members

63 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

33

The Death of Mrs Westaway

4,000 members

174 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

34

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

1,251 members

70 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

1,194 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Lisa Scottoline

960 members

63 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

37

Tempests and Slaughter

by Tamora Pierce

1,373 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Air You Breathe

by Frances de Pontes Peebles

392 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

39

The Monk of Mokha

853 members

32 reviews

4

Member: Nexpixel

40

Binti: The Night Masquerade

by Nnedi Okorafor

1,182 members

85 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

307 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

43

Children of Blood and Bone

by Tomi Adeyemi

7,989 members

258 reviews

3.9

Member: Nexpixel

44

Artificial Condition

by Martha Wells

5,016 members

268 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

45

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

by M. T. Anderson

437 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

1,223 members

60 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

48

1,698 members

151 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

398 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

51

The Best Bad Things

by Katrina Carrasco

185 members

10 reviews

2.9

Member: kara.shamy

52

The Boat People

312 members

25 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

53

by Thomas Perry

238 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

54

65 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

55

Brightly Burning

345 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

56

2,347 members

181 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

57

Chicago: A Novel

252 members

11 reviews

2.8

Member: kara.shamy

58

by Madeline Miller

18,577 members

582 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

59

428 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

60

Cross Her Heart

by Sarah Pinborough

818 members

48 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

61

The Cruel Prince

12,659 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

2,574 members

89 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

64

Daughters of the Storm

283 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

65

358 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

869 members

32 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

3,991 members

220 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

70

The Favorite Sister

by Jessica Knoll

663 members

37 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

71

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer

1,678 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

72

by Lauren Groff

1,415 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

73

by Robert Jackson Bennett

2,613 members

111 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

74

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,519 members

59 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

75

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

1,123 members

58 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

76

by Sigrid Nunez

1,903 members

113 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

77

Give Me Your Hand

by Megan Abbott

829 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

220 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

80

by Tom Sweterlitsch

1,208 members

60 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

81

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

7,925 members

337 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

82

Greeks Bearing Gifts

576 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

83

by Sam Graham-Felsen

170 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

84

by Megan Shepherd

551 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

85

by Jennifer Clement

278 members

36 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

86

Happy Doomsday: A Novel

by David Sosnowski

169 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

87

The Hellfire Club

453 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

88

Hope Never Dies

by Andrew Shaffer

938 members

60 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

89

The House of Broken Angels

by Luis Alberto Urrea

965 members

57 reviews

4.2

Member: kara.shamy

90

How It Happened

by Michael Koryta

390 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

91

1,444 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

92

It Ends With Her

by Brianna Labuskes

204 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

93

Invitation to a Bonfire

by Adrienne Celt

108 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

176 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

96

by Martha Grimes

395 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

97

830 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

98

A Ladder to the Sky

1,038 members

70 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

99

by Gary Shteyngart

641 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

100

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes

256 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

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Started: kara.shamy
January 2018
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