2018 Editors' Picks
Last updated: September 25, 2024
Five Books editors take the opportunity to reflect on the books they have most enjoyed in 2018.
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Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
by Erica Benner -
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Talk on the Wild Side: The Untameable Nature of Language
by Lane Greene -
3
Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough -
4
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
by Jonathan Boff -
5
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire
by Alev Scott
Editors’ Picks: Favourite Nonfiction of 2018, recommended by Sophie Roell
Editors’ Picks: Favourite Nonfiction of 2018, recommended by Sophie Roell
Journalist and Five Books editor Sophie Roell looks back on her favourite nonfiction books read this year.
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Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
by Jeyaraney Kathirithamby & Sarah B Pomeroy -
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Young Heroes
by Lula Bridgeport -
3
What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky
by Kelsey Oseid -
4
Ocean
by Emmanuelle Grundmann & Hélène Druvert -
5
A History of Pictures for Children
by David Hockney & Martin Gayford
The Best Children’s Nonfiction of 2018, recommended by Zoe Greaves
The Best Children’s Nonfiction of 2018, recommended by Zoe Greaves
Author and Five Books children’s editor Zoe Greaves selects the best nonfiction books for children published in 2018.
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The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd -
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The Water Cure
by Sophie Mackintosh -
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The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands
by Donald S Murray -
4
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
by Chris D Thomas -
5
Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey
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6
Crudo: A Novel
by Olivia Laing
Editors’ Picks: Highlights From a Year in Reading, recommended by Cal Flyn
Editors’ Picks: Highlights From a Year in Reading, recommended by Cal Flyn
Author, journalist and Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn looks back on her favourite books read this year.
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The Way Past Winter
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave -
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The Skylarks' War
by Hilary McKay -
3
Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland
Kevin Crossley-Holland (Author) and Frances Castle (illustrator) -
4
The Afterwards
AF Harrold (author) and Emily Gravett (illustrator) -
5
The Train to Impossible Places
PG Bell (author) and Flavia Sorrentino (illustrator)
Editors’ Picks: The Best Children’s Fiction of 2018, recommended by Zoe Greaves
Editors’ Picks: The Best Children’s Fiction of 2018, recommended by Zoe Greaves
From World War I to a book with a hint of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Five Books children’s editor Zoe Greaves nominates her favourite children’s fiction of 2018.
