Terra Arnone

Author of the article: Special to National Post Publishing date: December 20, 2018  •  4 minute read Books! Getty Images Article content A voracious appetite for memoir and narrative non-fiction has endured since the Millennial turn and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. But why should it?

In 2018, as in times auld lang syne, we sought refuge in the art of good storytelling: stories of untold truths and stories of things we knew before but are only ready to reimagine now. It was a year spent reading ourselves through a new kind of canon; one built built for a braver new world.

If 2017 made us angry, 2018 had us hurtling through whichever stages of grief we had left between rage and resolution. As a result, 2018’s best books seemed fuelled by weighty introspect, inward and outward exploration of our own vast and varied humanity; forged by the kind of spark-plug thinking we can only do in solidarity.