2018 Publishers Weekly Best Books (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

Fiction

Census
(*)
Jesse Ball

The Extinction of Menai
(*)
Chuma Nwokolo

The Sparsholt Affair
(*)
Alan Hollinghurst

Circe
(*)
Madeline Miller

Fox
(*)
Dubravka Ugresic

The Mars Room
(*)
Rachel Kushner

Slave Old Man
(*)
Patrick Chamoiseau

Warlight
(*)
Michael Ondaatje

The Great Believers
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Kudos
(*)
Rachel Cusk

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

Comemadre
(*)
Roque Larraquy

The Frolic of the Beasts
(*)
Yukio Mishima

Ok, Mr. Field
(*)
Katharine Kilalea

Flights
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

She Would Be King
(*)
Wayetu Moore

Friday Black: Stories
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Unsheltered
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

The Governesses
(*)
Anne Serre

The Day the Sun Died
(*)
Yan Lianke

Middle Grade

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
(*)
Leslie Connor

The Parker Inheritance
(*)
Varian Johnson

Amal Unbound
(*)
Aisha Saeed

Front Desk
(*)
Kelly Yang

Dactyl Hill Squad
(*)
Daniel Jose Older

Merci Suarez Changes Gears
(*)
Meg Medina

Small Spaces
(*)
Katherine Arden

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
(*)
Jonathan Auxier

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
(*)
Wade Hudson

Sanity & Tallulah
(*)
Molly Brooks

It Wasn't Me
(*)
Dana Alison Levy

Mystery/Thriller

The Widows of Malabar Hill
(*)
Sujata Massey

American by Day
(*)
Derek B. Miller

The 8 Mansion Murders
(*)
Takemaru Abiko

Savage Liberty
(*)
Eliot Pattison

The Word Is Murder
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

City of Ink
(*)
Elsa Hart

Our House
(*)
Louise Candlish

Red, White, Blue
(*)
Lea Carpenter

The Man Who Came Uptown
(*)
George P. Pelecanos

Resurrection Bay
(*)
Emma Viskic

The Fox
(*)
Frederick Forsyth

Nine Perfect Strangers
(*)
Liane Moriarty

Picture Books

The Crocodile and the Dentist
(*)
Taro Gomi

The Book of Boy
(*)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The Rabbit Listened
(*)
Cori Doerrfeld

Hello Lighthouse
(*)
Sophie Blackall

The Party
(*)
Sergio Ruzzier

Julian Is a Mermaid
(*)
Jessica Love

Stumpkin
(*)
Lucy Ruth Cummins

A Big Mooncake for Little Star
(*)
Grace Lin

The Day You Begin
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Dreamers
(*)
Yuyi Morales

The Elephant
(*)
Jenni Desmond

Kitten and the Night Watchman
(*)
John Sullivan

Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein
(*)
Linda Bailey

The Patchwork Bike
(*)
Maxine Beneba Clarke

Carmela Full of Wishes
(*)
Matt De La Pena

Thank You, Omu!
(*)
Oge Mora

Up the Mountain Path
(*)
Marianne Dubuc

The Wall in the Middle of the Book
(*)
Jon Agee

Romance

The One You Can't Forget
(*)
Roni Loren

Desperate Girls
(*)
Laura Griffin

A Wolf Apart
(*)
Maria Vale

Big Bad Cowboy
(*)
Carly Bloom

Their Perfect Melody
(*)
Priscilla Oliveras

SF/Fantasy/Horror

The Merry Spinster
(*)
Mallory Ortberg

Blackfish City
(*)
Sam J. Miller

Witchmark
(*)
C.L. Polk

The Calculating Stars
(*)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Temper
(*)
Nicky Drayden

The Sisters of the Winter Wood
(*)
Rena Rossner

Unholy Land
(*)
Lavie Tidhar

Top 10

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
(*)
Denis Johnson

Asymmetry
(*)
Lisa Halliday

The Shape of the Ruins
(*)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Melmoth
(*)
Sarah Perry

Insurrecto
(*)
Gina Apostol

Young Adult

The Prince and the Dressmaker
(*)
Jen Wang

Children of Blood and Bone
(*)
Tomi Adeyemi

The Poet X
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
(*)
Ellen Oh

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
(*)
M.T. Anderson

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
(*)
Adib Khorram

Pride
(*)
Ibi Zoboi

The War Outside
(*)
Monica Hesse

A Winter's Promise
(*)
Christelle Dabos

The Boneless Mercies
(*)
April Genevieve Tucholke

Dry
(*)
Neal Shusterman; Jarrod Shusterman

The Light Between Worlds
(*)
Laura E. Weymouth

On a Sunbeam
(*)
Tillie Walden

Sadie
(*)
Courtney Summers

Truly Devious
(*)
Maureen Johnson

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018