It’s time for the first round of picks of some of 2018’s best books from the first five or six months of the year — in advance of Amazon’s “best so far” package across multiple categories, due later this month. Looking across the lists from iBooks, EW, Christian Lorentzen at Vulture, and Time (including nonfiction), Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry made three lists, while these titles appear on two lists: The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst Barracoon, by Zora Neale Hurston The Recovering, by Leslie Jamison The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson An American Marriage, Tayari Jones The Mars Room, by […]