Books of 2018

Favorites below. Everything else here.

• A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
• Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles
• All The Answers by Michael Kupperman
• The Baltimore Book of the Dead by Marion Winik
• Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children by Jeanne Safer
• Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
• The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead by Thomas Mira y Lopez
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
• Circling My Mother: A Memoir by Mary Gordon
• Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life-For the Better by Jeanne Safer
• Final Payments by Mary Gordon
• Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life by David Giffels
• The Glen Rock Book of the Dead by Marion Winik
• Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving by Julia Samuel
• How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels by Paul Karasik
• Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• Midlife Women and Death of Mother: A Study of Psychohistorical and Spiritual Transformation by Martha Ann Robbins
• Motherhood: A Novel by Sheila Heti
• Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Nox by Anne Carson
• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
• Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis by Kathryn Rhett
• What If This Were Enough? Essays by Heather Havrilesky
• What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter by Suzy Hopkins