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Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year 2018
Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year 2018 names 10 books. 7 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
- Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolissource (opens in a new tab)
- Feel Freesource (opens in a new tab)
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedomsource (opens in a new tab)
- Heads of the Colored Peoplesource (opens in a new tab)
- Motherhoodsource (opens in a new tab)
- Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shoresource (opens in a new tab)
- The Largesse of the Sea Maidensource (opens in a new tab)
- The Overstorysource (opens in a new tab)
- This Land: America, Lost and Foundsource (opens in a new tab)
- X-Men: Grand Designsource (opens in a new tab)
About the Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year
The Tribune's main year-end best-books list, stored as one "Best Books" list per year. 2018-2025 are Christopher Borrelli's 10 best books (12 in 2023, where he counts three novels as one pick). 2010 is Julia Keller's ranked top 10, the only ranked year. 2012-2016 are Printers Row Journal picks: 2012 is staff and contributor favorites (25 picks), 2013 and 2015 are top 10s, 2014 is 11 picks (Stephen King's "Mr. Mercedes and Revival" is one pick, stored as two books), 2016 is five fiction and five nonfiction. 2006 is the top 10 that opens the holiday "Best books of the year" package; the themed gift-guide sections after it are left out. Honorable mentions are left out (2013 Noteworthy, 2015 More great reading, 2019 almost top-10s, 2022 notable books). Missing years: 2007 ran only a themed holiday gift-guide list with no top tier; no 2008 list was found in the Tribune archive; the 2009 favorites lived on a Printers Row blog and the 2011 list ran as a photo gallery, and neither could be read. Genre, poetry, cookbook, children's and Chicago-author lists are left out. Pages were read from chicagotribune.com. Secondary sources: 2017 (photo gallery, now offline) comes from yearendlists.com; yearendlists.com also supplied subtitles for 2017-2025, checked against the Tribune pages for 2018-2025.
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