The best reads of 2018: Our critics name their top picks
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After another bumper year for books, our critics pick the best reads of 2018
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From silents to boomers to millennials to polars – a fascinating exploration of the generation game
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Jo Spain’s Don’t Look Back is a razor-sharp thriller set between the Caribbean, London and Ireland
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The Mess We’re In review: Annie Macmanus on making love and music in London town
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Elie Wiesel forced the world to confront the brutality and evil of the holocaust
This Could Be Us by Claire McGowan: What happens when the past catches up with a runaway mother
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: A dive into the hive mind in sweeping, ambitious family saga
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy: Why Putin’s war is fuelling Russia’s decline
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Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong revels in nature’s chaos and the West’s wild Atlantic ways
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Lucid look at the light and shade of Martin Luther King’s brief life
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Andrea Mara’s No One Saw a Thing is a gripping missing-child chiller
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