The Best Books I Read in 2018

In no particular order:

• Anatheism, by Richard Kearney
• Battling to the End, by René Girard
• New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich
• Songs of Kabir, translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Feel Free, by Zadie Smith
• Shyness and Dignity, by Dag Solstad
• It All Adds Up, by Saul Bellow
• The Way of the World, by Nicolas Bouvier
• All for Nothing, by Walter Kempowski
• Swansong 1945, by Walter Kempowski
• Why They Can't Write, by John Warner
• Monsters, by Karen Brennan
• Half-Earth, by E. O. Wilson
• The Kingdom, by Emmanuel Carrère
• Why Orwell Matters, by Christopher Hitchens
• Why I Write, by George Orwell
• The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
• Selected Exaggerations, by Peter Sloterdijk
• Reclaiming Conversation, by Sherry Turkle
• On Murder, Mourning, and Melancholia, by Sigmund Freud
• Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson
• Bitter Green, by Martin Corless-Smith
• The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Love as Human Freedom, by Paul A. Kottman
• American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes
• Building a Better Teacher, by Elizabeth Green
• The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm
• No Name in the Street, by James Baldwin
• The One by Whom Scandal Comes, by René Girard