The 52 Most Acclaimed Books of 2018

The acclaimed books on this list have earned multiple honors including; winning an award; making our bestseller’s list, or being selected for inclusion on prominent book club’s reading lists. This list will continuously evolve as we incorporate additional sources to help readers discover excellent books. Print the 2018 reading list, view of collage of 2018’s books, view the complete list from all the years, and enjoy ♥

Fiction – Nonfiction – Children’s – Poetry

13 Fiction Books

An American Marriage: A Novel

A Lucky Man: Stories

Stay with Me: A novel

Friday Black

Halsey Street

Housegirl: A Novel

The Talented Ribkins

Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15)

Praise Song for the Butterflies

They Come in All Colors

Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel

Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel

Down the River unto the Sea

12 Nonfiction Books (top)

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Becoming

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster

All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1)

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

23 Children’s Books (top)

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Children of Blood and Bone

Let the Children March

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom

I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t

Sing to the Moon

The Season of Styx Malone

Thank You, Omu!

The Dream of America

No Crystal Stair

On The Come Up

The Poet X

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

The Skin I’m In

The Journey of Little Charlie

Baby Says

The Word Collector

Mommy’s Khimar

Finding Langston

Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams

I Am Loved

The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy

4 Poetry Books (top)

Refuse: Poems

Indecency

If God Invented Baseball: Poems

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin