2018 Library Journal Best Books (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

Crime Fiction

Sunburn
(*)
Laura Lippman

Broken Places
(*)
Tracy Clark

A Death of No Importance
(*)
Mariah Fredericks

A Necessary Evil
(*)
Abir Mukherjee

Cult X
(*)
Fuminori Nakamura

Death of a Rainmaker
(*)
Laurie Loewenstein

The Night Visitor
(*)
Lucy Atkins

November Road
(*)
Lou Berney

The Witch Elm
(*)
Tana French

Graphic Novels

Why Art?
(*)
Eleanor Davis

Horror

Frankenstein in Baghdad
(*)
Ahmed Saadawi

The Merry Spinster
(*)
Mallory Ortberg

Baby Teeth
(*)
Zoje Stage

The Cabin at the End of the World
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Dracul
(*)
Dacre Stoker; J.D. Barker

We Sold Our Souls
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Literary Fiction

The House of Impossible Beauties
(*)
Joseph Cassara

Gun Love
(*)
Jennifer Clement

Speak No Evil
(*)
Uzodinma Iweala

The Overstory
(*)
Richard Powers

The Great Believers
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

Lake Success
(*)
Gary Shteyngart

Waiting for Eden
(*)
Elliot Ackerman

We That Are Young
(*)
Preti Taneja

The Projectionist
(*)
Grove Press

Pop Fiction

Halsey Street
(*)
Naima Coster

An American Marriage
(*)
Tayari Jones

America Is Not the Heart
(*)
Elaine Castillo

The Ensemble
(*)
Aja Gabel

That Kind of Mother
(*)
Rumaan Alam

How to Be Famous
(*)
Caitlin Moran

Rust & Stardust
(*)
T. Greenwood

Romance

Promise Not to Tell
(*)
Jayne Ann Krentz

The Last Wolf
(*)
Maria Vale

A Princess in Theory
(*)
Alyssa Cole

Unmasked by the Marquess
(*)
Cat Sebastian

Riven
(*)
Roan Parrish

Someone to Care
(*)
Mary Balogh

Too Wilde to Wed
(*)
Eloisa James

A Touch of Flame
(*)
Jo Goodman

Worth the Wait
(*)
Karelia Stetz-Waters

The Duke With the Dragon Tattoo
(*)
Kerrigan Byrne

The Proposal
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

Tempt the Flames
(*)
Marnee Blake

Consumed
(*)
J.R. Ward

Diamond Fire: A Novella
(*)
Ilona Andrews

My One and Only Duke
(*)
Grace Burrowes

SF/Fantasy

The Grey Bastards
(*)
Jonathan French

The Night Masquerade
(*)
Nnedi Okorafor

Planetside
(*)
Michael Mammay

The City of Lost Fortunes
(*)
Bryan Camp

The Poppy War
(*)
R.F. Kuang

The Calculating Stars
(*)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Spinning Silver
(*)
Naomi Novik

Trail of Lightning
(*)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Exit Strategy
(*)
Martha Wells

Unholy Land
(*)
Lavie Tidhar

Short Stories

Zolitude
(*)
Paige Cooper

Last Stories
(*)
William Trevor

A Lucky Man: Stories
(*)
Jamel Brinkley

Fight No More: Stories
(*)
Lydia Millet

All That Is Left Is All That Matters: Stories
(*)
Mark Slouka

The Wrong Heaven
(*)
Amy Bonnaffons

Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Stories
(*)
Kevin Wilson

The Dogs of Detroit
(*)
Brad Felver

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

Evening in Paradise
(*)
Lucia Berlin

World Literature

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
(*)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Trick
(*)
Domenico Starnone

The Emissary
(*)
Yoko Tawada

Moon Brow
(*)
Shahriar Mandanipour

Convenience Store Woman
(*)
Sayaka Murata

In the Distance With You
(*)
Carla Guelfenbein

Small Country
(*)
Gael Faye

The Court Dancer
(*)
Kyung-Sook Shin

Flights
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

Killing Commendatore
(*)
Haruki Murakami

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018