The Thread: Best books of 2018

2018 was a year filled with tons of books that caught national attention. Knowing which ones are worth putting at the top of your list can be hard.

Luckily MPR News host Kerri Miller, senior producer Stephanie Curtis, and podcast producer Tracy Mumford did plenty of reading and ran down their favorite books from 2018.

Fiction:

• "My Sister, the Serial Killer" — Oyinkan Braithwaite

• "Melmoth" — Sarah Perry

• "The Great Believers" — Rebecca Makkai

• "An American Marriage" — Tayari Jones

• "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" — Eugene Yelchin and M. T. Anderson

• "Disoriental" — Negar Djavadi

• "The Overstory" — Richard Powers

• "Circe"— Madeline Miller

• "There, There" — Tommy Orange

• "The Witch Elm" — Tana French

• "The Maze at Windermere" — Gregory Blake Smith

• "This Could Hurt" — Jillian Medoff

Nonfiction:

• "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" — John Carreyrou

• "In Pieces" — Sally Field

• "Heavy: An American Memoir" — Kiese Laymon

To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above.