The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors

By Elliott Abrams, Haviv Rettig Gur, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Dr. Ruth Wisse, David Wolpe

Letters, antidotes, eternal lives, outcasts, secret worlds, pogroms, and more.

To mark the close of 2018, we asked a handful of our writers to name the best two or three books they read this year, and briefly to explain their choices. Their answers appear below in alphabetical order. (Unless otherwise noted, all books were published in 2018.)

Elliott Abrams

Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny (Viking, 1152pp., $40). The best one-volume biography of Churchill, and a deeply engaging and fun read.

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