AN ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL MEMOIR from the late, great fashion writer and photographer Bill Cunningham tells witty, wise tales of fashion’s golden years. A MINUS

FASHION CLIMBING (HARDCOVER)
Penguin Press
2018

MARVELOUSLY SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER about a lifelong con artist desperately trying to make a better life for herself and her children. A MINUS

THE DRAMA TEACHER (HARDCOVER)
Crown
2018

AN ADVENTURE, A MEDITATION, a thriller, a fable: lyrical French novel in a shimmering translation. A MINUS

HUNTING PARTY (PAPERBACK)
Unnamed Press
2018

TENSE NEAR-FUTURE THRILLER with a high-tech, high-stakes global setting. Satisfying conclusion to a timely trilogy. A MINUS

STATE TECTONICS (THE CENTENAL CYCLE #3) (HARDCOVER)
Tor.com
2018

GORGEOUS SCIENCE FICTION set in a future where robots are humans’ closest companions. Lush prose, fascinating ideas. Translated from Catalan! A MINUS

THE VESTIGIAL HEART: A NOVEL OF THE ROBOT AGE
MIT Press
2018

STYLISH PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER in the grand tradition of Patricia Highsmith, with a vivid 1950s Morocco setting. A MINUS

TANGERINE (HARDCOVER)
Ecco
2018

A 1954 TREK ACROSS AUSTRALIA is a comic picaresque adventure, but more as well: love, death, identity, Jung, history, colonialism all blend together on the road. A MINUS

A LONG WAY FROM HOME
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
2018

WILD, HALLUCINATORY, HILARIOUS novel tells a slacker coming-of-age story with a hearty dose of the surreal. Creepy and fun! A MINUS

TACKY GOBLIN (PAPERBACK)
Unnamed Press
2018

AT THE INTERSECTION OF TRUE CRIME and literature: wrenching and surprising discoveries on the trail of the real-life kidnapping that helped inspire Lolita. A MINUS

THE REAL LOLITA (HARDCOVER)
Ecco
2018

THE WILD FEVER DREAMS of a Moroccan writer in a tuberculosis hospital tell a surreal, brutal story of life and death in an oppressive regime. A MINUS

THE HOSPITAL (PAPERBACK)
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2018