Best & Overlooked Books: What Were the Top Books of 2018?

An annual favorite! Our panelists discuss the books that got people reading this year, those that should have received more attention, and the classics they chose to revisit.

Josh Bodwell, executive director, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance; editor, three-volume collection of the works of Andre Dubus

Gillian French, author of "Grit," "The Door to January," and "The Lies They Tell;" her new book, "The Missing Season," comes out in May 2019.

Lewis Robinson, author of the novel "Water Dogs," a New York Times editors’ choice selection, and "Officer Friendly and Other Stories." His short fiction and essays have appeared in Tin House, The Missouri Review, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times Book Review, and NPR’s program Selected Shorts.

Melissa Kim (by phone), editorial director, Islandport Press

Aurelia Scott (by phone), contributing editor, AudioFile Magazine

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• AudioFile Magazine 2018 Best Audiobooks
• "Asymmetry," by Lisa Halliday
• "The Missing Season," by Gillian French
• "Sadie," by Courtney Summers
• "Anything Is Possible," by Elizabeth Strout
• "This Time Might Be Different," by Elaine Ford
• "The Destiny Thief," by Richard Russo
• "The Girl of the Lake," by Bill Roorbach
• "The Last Cruise," by Kate Christensen
• "Memoirs of Hadrian," by Marguerite Yourcenar
• "We Met in Paris," by Joan E. Howard
• "All That Heaven Allows," by Mark Griffin
• "So We Read On," by Maureen Corrigan
• "The Library Book," by Susan Orlean
• "Balancing Act 2"
• "The House on Perry Street," by Agnes Bushell
• "The Baltimore Book of the Dead," by Marion Winik
• "When I First Held You," edited by Brian Gresko
• "Hellfire Boys," by Theo Emery
• "This 'N That," by Bette Davis
• "Make Trouble," (audiobook) by Cecile Richards
• "Lethal White," (audiobook) by Robert Galbraith
• "Red Notice," by Bill Browder
• "Killers of the Flower Moon," by David Grann
• "A Gentleman in Moscow," by Amor Towles
• "A House That Once Was," by Julie Fogliano
• "Big Foot and Little Foot," by Ellen Potter
• "We Don’t Eat Our Classmates," by Ryan T. Higgins
• "The Comic Book Story of Baseball," by Alex Irvine
• "The Friend," by Sigrid Nunez
• "Heartland," by Sarah Smarsh
• "All You Can Ever Know," by Nicole Chung
• There Will Be No Miracles Here," by Casey Gerald
• "Becoming Mrs. Lewis," by Patti Callahan
• "Decoy," by Cal Thomas
• "Beautiful Country Burn Again," by Ben Fountain
• "Birth, Death, and a Tractor," by Kelly Payson-Roopchand
• "The Unfastening," by Wesley McNair
• "Midden," by Julia Bouwsma
• Poet Tom Clark
• "Night Moves," by Jessica Hopper
• "The Cabin at the End of the World," by Paul Tremblay
• "The Third Hotel," by Laura van den Berg