
Esquire: Best Expected Books of 2018
Get your to-read list ready for 2018—it's going to be a good year.

Tangerine: A Novel
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'As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated in a screenplay to be...

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
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From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man,...

White Houses
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"Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my...

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
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"The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book,...

Sharp
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion,...

The Female Persuasion
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'The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary.' Jeffrey Eugenides ...

The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
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Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant...

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
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A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist...

Laura & Emma
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A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New...

The Sparsholt Affair
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In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman,...
Fiction

Some Hell: A Novel
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A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen's coming-of-age in the aftermath of his...

The House of Impossible Beauties
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A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the...

How to Stop Time
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I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw...
Historical

Back Talk: Stories
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From an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and...

The Line Becomes a River
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How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco...
Biography social issues

What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
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New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner ...

An American Marriage
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One of the most anticipated novels of 2018 according to Bustle * Southern Living * Bookish * Nylon *...

Feel Free: Essays
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The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is...

Freshwater
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self....
literary fiction