Kirkus released the first round of their year-end best-of lists, starting with their best fiction titles of 2018!
Mystery/Thriller
EIGHTEEN BELOW: A Fabian Risk Novel by Stefan Ahnhem
NEWCOMER: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino; Translated by Giles Murray
KINGDOM OF THE BLIND: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
Science Fiction and Fantasy
STATE TECTONICS: The Centenal Cycle by Malka Older
DARK STATE: A Novel of the Merchant Princes Multiverse by Charles Stross
Lit Fic
SEVERANCE by Ling Ma
Book Club Picks
BROTHER by David Chariandy
THE MERE WIFE by Maria Dahvana Headley
EVERYTHING UNDER by Daisy Johnson
Debut
A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley
SEVERANCE by Ling Ma
Short Fiction
EVENING IN PARADISE: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley
Best Up-to-the-Minute Fiction
BOOMER1 by Daniel Torday
Fiction in Translation
NEWCOMER: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino; Translated by Giles Murray
WAIT, BLINK: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel by Gunnhild Øyehaug; Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson