“Convenience Store Woman,” by Sayaka Murata.

A previous version of this post misstated the winner of the 2018 National Book Award. Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas Haruki Murakami, tr. Anna Burns, Milkman Full review >, by Daisy Johnson, Everything Under Alice Bolin, Dead Girls Full review >, by Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon You must have a goodreads account to vote. I tried my best to balance fiction and nonfiction, but some places only offered one or the other at the time of writing, and the final compilation is probably a little heavy on the fiction side.

To me, each of the titles below represents an energizing alternative to the ripped-apart illogic of our contemporary reality. What follows is a thirteen-year journey of dreams, desires, jealousies, betrayals, and, ultimately, of love. Be the first to read books news and see reviews, news and features in This slender début novel forms one of the twistier branches on the autofiction tree. The best literary fiction of 2020. “Confessions” recasts the white supporting players of Sheppardania as nonwhite and queer, and it demands that the full and mysterious humanity of all people be recognized, but the book is not didactic. Patrick deWitt, French Exit

Tommy Orange, There There, Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden An author may receive multiple nominations within a single category if he or she has more than one eligible series or more than one eligible stand-alone book. Voting opens to 15 official nominees, and write-in votes can be placed for any eligible book (see eligibility below). © Copyright 2020 Kirkus Media LLC. Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Shane Bauer, American Prison Ling Ma, Smart, funny, humane, and superbly well-written.

One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, the Kirkus Star marks books of exceptional merit. We are experiencing technical difficulties. That’s the first half of the novel.

by Naima Coster Absorbing and alive, the kind of novel that swallows you whole. Please try again later. The 30 Best Fiction Books Of 2018 Show That Women Dominated This Year. I know, because I am too—especially after reading 52 of them and tracking their contents for the very piece you are reading—so trust me when I say that the monstrosity below is the last best-books-of-2018 list you’ll ever have to read.

A put-upon professor, also trans, discovers Sheppard’s memoirs and adds his own annotations, which are alternately risqué, cerebral, and poignant. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them. Find beloved reads by Haruki Murakami, Meg Wolitzer, and Celeste Ng, among others.

Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal Sayaka Murata, tr. Mira T. Lee, Everything Here is Beautiful In the second half, Amar, a Muslim-American economist, is detained at Heathrow Airport.

Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. Sigrid Nunez, The Friend Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love from the author of. Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil Jennifer Croft, Flights With highly anticipated new novels from Man Booker Prize winners and exciting debuts from diverse voices, 2020 is shaping up to be a remarkable year for literary fiction. Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me

Full review >, Laila Lalami confronts American inequities in 'Conditional Citizens.'.

Heather Cleary, Comemadre I haven’t cracked the latest Deborah Eisenberg collection. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion, Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone Jon Meacham, The Soul of America


The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Sons of Blackbird Mountain (Blackbird Mountain, #1), The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, The Elephant in the Room: Women Draw Their World, Rumaan Alam's Uncannily Prophetic Page-Turner. Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Andrew Roberts, Churchill Domenico Starnone, tr.

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Roxane Gay, ed., Not That Bad This memoir, by the daughter of Steve Jobs, is sensitively written and crammed with spicy first-look anecdotes about the Apple co-founder and his family. Full review >, by Since 1777, our leaders have pursued life, liberty, and the pleasures of a good read. This list of the best mystery books with a literary bent is sponsored by The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.

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Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother Daniel Hahn, In this follow-up to The Polish Boxer (2012) and Monastery (2014), Halfon constructs a kind of postmodern memorial to his...

Each one of these books does what Alexander Pope said wit can do: it “gives us back the image of our mind.”.

Porochista Khakpour, Sick Winner of The Man Booker Prize, this long-awaited first novel from George Saunders is a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented. Nafissa Thompson-Spires, In an era when writers of color are broadening the space in which class and culture as well as race are examined,... Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker . Rebecca Makkai, As compulsively readable as it is thoughtful and moving: an unbeatable fictional combination. Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here A finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, this collection of short stories turns Florida into a place half-real and half-phantasmagorical—a psychic repository of beauty and danger. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more.

Sarah Smarsh, Heartland It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. HALSEY STREET.