With PBS’ The Great American Read, it’s been a year of important lists in literature, but the New York Times are well celebrated for their taste in books. Indeed, this list has made me add a dozen new books to my TBR list. 

Let us know what you make of the list and whether you think a book released in 2018 deserved to feature here.

New York Times’ 100 notable books of 2018

An American Marriage

Asymmetry

Brown: Poems

Cherry

Crudo

Early Work

Eternal Life

Everything Under

The Female Persuasion

Freshwater

Friday Black

The Friend

Go, Went, Gone

The Great Believers

The House of Broken Angels

Immigrant, Montana

Improvement

In Every Moment We Still Are Alive

The Kites

Kudos

Lake Success

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

Last Stories

Macbeth

The Mars Room

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

My Struggle: Book 6

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

The Neighborhood

The Odyssey

Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel

The Overstory

The Parking Lot Attendant

The Perfect Nanny

A Princess in Theory

Property

Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories

Sabrina

Severance

Slave Old Man

The Sparsholt Affair

Spinning Silver

A State of Freedom

There There

A View of the Empire at Sunset

Wade in the Water: Poems

Warlight

Washington Black

The Witch Elm

Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories

Ali: A Life

American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Arthur Ashe: A Life

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Calypso

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

Educated: A Memoir

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind

Feel Free: Essays

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

The Fifth Risk

Fly Girls

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Heavy: An American Memoir

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

In Pieces

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

The Library Book

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown

The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Small Fry

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

These Truths: A History of the United States

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World