
Best Books Of 2018
With 2018 drawing to a close, it's time to pick your favourites in all categories. Here are the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles of 2018. ‘Asymmetry' by Lisa Halliday This work weaves together two people, Ezra Blazer, an editor, and aspiring writer, and Amar Jaafari, an Iraqi-American economist, in two parts – "Folly" and "Madness" respectively, their tales seemingly unrelated by connected by a shocking finale. Despite being Halliday's first novel, it reads as one by an established, mature writer and is an engaging work of metafiction. "The Great Believers" by Rebecca Makkai A contender for the Booker Prize and National Book Award, this fictional work takes the reader through an empathetic yet unsentimental journey through mid-80s Chicago and the 2015 Paris attacks, the AIDS epidemic and a…