Books of 2018 Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley Calypso David Sedaris A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe William Rosen Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown Historic Livermore, California: Illustrated, A-Z Anne Marshall Homan Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky Paper: Paging Through History Mark Kurlansky The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V Edward Gibbon Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Liza Mundy