The top book overall, according to Amazon editors, is Tara Westover’s memoir Educated. The list includes picks for print, Kindle, and Audible editions.
In June, book lovers are looking for new books they could add to
their summer reading lists, and welcome with appreciation a mid-year
list of The Best Books of the Year So Far.
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Revealed in mid-June, the ranking is curated by Amazon editors and
includes titles featured as the Best Books of the Month between January
and June, as well as worthwhile new titles released in the recent weeks.Amazon editors have picked Educated by Tara Westover as the top pick of 2018 so far. This stirring memoir chronicles how she survived her survivalist upbringing, eventually earning a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
Sarah Harrison Smith, editorial director of Amazon Books and Kindle, said about the winning book:
It was Educated, Tara Westover’s utterly remarkable memoir, that was our hands-down favorite. By sheer force of will, she emerged from a rough, unschooled childhood among Idaho survivalists to earn a doctorate in history at Cambridge University. We were awed by her journey.
This page-turner follows a damaged Vietnam vet who moves his family to the wilds of Alaska. As winter approaches and his mental state deteriorates, his wife and daughter find themselves in an increasingly precarious position.
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn was picked as the best book in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense category. It’s a seductive and unpredictable novel about an agoraphobic woman with a tricky past who witnesses a murder.
What are other books released in the first half of 2018 and adored by Amazon editors? Let’s take a look.
Top 20 Amazon best books of 2018 so far
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover,
- The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah,
- The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson,
- The Woman in the Window: A Novel by A.J. Finn,
- Girls Burn Brighter: A Novel by Shobha Rao,
- The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú,
- The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine,
- Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi,
- The Immortalists: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live? by Chloe Benjamin,
- There There by Tommy Orange,
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara,
- You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld,
- Circe (#1 New York Times bestseller) by Madeline Miller,
- The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers,
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje,
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson,
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan,
- Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley,
- Love and Ruin by Paula McLain,
- God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
If you are still hungry for book recommendations, make sure to find out what are the top book bestsellers of 2018 so far.
