The Amazon Editors’ Best Books of 2018

Amazon has released its annual list of the best books of the year so far. These top 20 books released between January and June of 2018 were hand-selected by Amazon book editors and represent a range of genres, including drama, true crime, and fantasy.


1
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
4.7 avg rating, 8448 reviews, 2018-02-20

2
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
4.3 avg rating, 340 reviews, 2018-09-18

3
Indianapolis
by Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
4.8 avg rating, 557 reviews, 2018-07-10

4
Elevation
by Stephen King
3.8 avg rating, 1647 reviews, 2018-10-30

5
The Line Becomes a River
by Francisco Cantú
4.4 avg rating, 288 reviews, 2018-02-06

6
The Woman in the Window
by A. J. Finn
4.3 avg rating, 5938 reviews, 2018-01-02

7
Once Upon a River
by
4.4 avg rating, 548 reviews, 2018-12-04

8
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
4.7 avg rating, 2051 reviews, 2018-03-06

9
Virgil Wander
by Leif Enger
4.3 avg rating, 297 reviews, 2018-10-02

10
There There
by Tommy Orange
4 avg rating, 712 reviews, 2018-06-05

11
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
4.6 avg rating, 6898 reviews, 2018-02-06

12
Dopesick
by
4.6 avg rating, 353 reviews, 2018-08-07

13
Wolves of Eden
by Kevin McCarthy
4.2 avg rating, 46 reviews, 2018-11-06

14
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
3.4 avg rating, 318 reviews, 2018-07-10

15
Frederick Douglass
by David W. Blight
4.3 avg rating, 147 reviews, 2018-10-16

16
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
4.3 avg rating, 494 reviews, 2018-09-04

17
The Witch Elm
by Tana French
3.4 avg rating, 838 reviews, 2018-10-09

18
Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
3.9 avg rating, 183 reviews, 2018-03-06

19
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
4.6 avg rating, 2442 reviews, 2018-09-04

20
Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou
4.8 avg rating, 2587 reviews, 2018-05-21