Best Fiction of 2018 To Get Your Book Club Talking

by Rumaan Alam

With his second novel, Alam cements his status as that kind of writer: insightful, intrepid, and truly impressive. Full review >

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by Judy Blundell

Luscious but not too sweet, astute but not too serious, Blundell's novel is a treat you don't have to feel guilty about and... Full review >

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by David Chariandy

An important, riveting novel about dreams, families, and the systems holding them back. Full review >

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by Kate Christensen

An entertaining mashup of Ship of Fools and Titanic. Full review >

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by Aminatta Forna

Low-key yet piercingly empathetic, Forna's latest explores instinct, resilience, and the complexity of human coexistence,... Full review >

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by Abby Geni

Geni continues to create works of art with perfect voices that are simultaneously thrillers and meditations on nature. It is... Full review >

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by Maria Dahvana Headley

There’s not a false note in this retelling, which does the Beowulf poet and his spear-Danes proud. Full review >

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by Alan Hollinghurst

A novel full of life and perception; you end the book not minding that the actual Sparsholt affair gets just the barest of... Full review >

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by Daisy Johnson

A tense, startling book of true beauty and insight. Proof that the oldest of stories contain within them the seeds of our... Full review >

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by Neel Mukherjee

A calm, compelling, unshrinking portrait of humanity in transition; both disturbing and dazzling. Full review >

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by Sigrid Nunez

Breathtaking both in pain and in beauty; a singular book. Full review >

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by Ali Smith

A sprightly, digressive, intriguing fandango on life and time. Full review >

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by Luis Alberto Urrea

Even in death, Urrea shows, we never lose our connection to one another, which is the point of this deft and moving book. Full review >

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