News Pop Culture and Entertainment 10 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 By Claire Stern Claire Stern Claire Stern is the Deputy Editor of ELLE.com. Previously, she served as Editor at Bergdorf Goodman and was the Associate Editor at InStyle. Her interests include fashion, food, travel, music, Peloton, and The Hills—not necessarily in that order. InStyle's editorial guidelines Updated on January 8, 2018 Pin Share Tweet Email Photo: Courtesy To say that 2017 was a doozy of a year would be a colossal understatement, but at least it brought us some great books. There was Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award-winning novel about a poor African-American family in the rural south, Mohsin Hamid's dystopian take on the refugee crisis, and Min Jin Lee's captivating story about the plight of Korean immigrants. Luckily, 2018's batch of titles look just as promising. Here are 10 that we can't wait to crack open immediately, if not sooner. 01 of 10 THE IMMORTALISTS BY CHLOE BENJAMIN (JANUARY 9) Courtesy Buy Now Set in New York's Lower East Side, The Immortalists centers on the lives of four siblings who visit a psychic and learn the exact date of their respective deaths. The information inevitably has a big effect their lives, prompting them to take chances they may not have otherwise taken. 02 of 10 FEEL FREE BY ZADIE SMITH (FEBRUARY 6) Courtesy Buy Now Zadie Smith fan-girls, rejoice. The British author delivers yet again with a collection of essays (plus lectures and reviews), waxing philosophic on everything from Facebook to the Brexit vote. 03 of 10 THE GREAT ALONE BY KRISTIN HANNAH (FEBRUARY 6) Courtesy Buy Now A Vietnam POW returns from overseas and opts to relocate his family to a remote area of Alaska, far removed from the threats of war-torn societies, for a fresh start. All seems well until his PTSD kicks in during the harsh winter and turns their tiny cabin dream into a living nightmare. 04 of 10 SHE REGRETS NOTHING BY ANDREA DUNLOP (FEBRUARY 6) Courtesy Buy Now After suffering the loss of her mother, a 23-year-old orphan from Michigan gets taken in by her well-to-do cousins in New York, introducing her to a ritzy world that's far from her own, and one that she finds out she doesn't want to let go so easy. 05 of 10 LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE BY SLOANE CROSLEY (APRIL 3) Courtesy Buy Now If accolades from Steve Martin and David Sedaris are any indication, Sloane Crosley's new collection of essays delivers, with hilarious takes on fertility, mingling with swingers, and her blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo on Gossip Girl. 06 of 10 THE FEMALE PERSUASION BY MEG WOLITZER (APRIL 3) Courtesy Buy Now A story about a timid college freshman who gets mentored by a prominent leader of the women's movement and becomes inspired to incite change. Shockingly apropos given the current political climate. 07 of 10 OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES BY ABBI WAXMAN (APRIL 3) Courtesy Buy Now Drama ensues in a small town, where everyone knows everyone's business, when a local carpool mom witnesses an extramarital affair firsthand. 08 of 10 YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT BY CURTIS SITTENFELD (APRIL 24) Courtesy Buy Now After tackling the intricacies of Jane Austen's social orbit in 2016's Eligible, Sittenfeld returns with her latest release: a short story collection dealing with the always-topical subjects of friends, relationship, exes, and aging. The title comes from one particularly suspenseful chapter, where a married woman plays a flirty party game with a man that's not her husband. 09 of 10 THAT KIND OF MOTHER BY RUMAAN ALAM (MAY 8) Courtesy Buy Now Mothers were big at the box office in 2017 (think: Lady Bird, mother!, I, Tonya). Rumaan Alam promises the same return on investment with his second novel about a first-time mom who becomes dependent on her nanny, then winds up being responsible for her newborn baby when she suddenly dies during childbirth. 10 of 10 FLORIDA BY LAUREN GROFF (JUNE 5) Courtesy Buy Now The Fates and Furies author writes on her adopted home in the Sunshine State, where gators lurk, hurricanes loom, and the politics are frustratingly backward. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit