FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Tom Lake,” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
2. “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” by James McBride (Riverhead)
3. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
4. “Lessons In Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
5. “The Covenant of Water,” by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
6. “Somebody’s Fool,” by Richard Russo (Knopf)
7. “A Chateau Under Siege,” by Martin Walker (Knopf)
8. “Fourth Wing,” by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled:Red Tower Books)
9. “The Only One Left,” by Riley Sager (Dutton)
10. “None of This Is True,” by Lisa Jewell (Atria Books)
Paperback
1. “Trust,” by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead)
2. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Penguin Library)
3. “The Last Thing He Told Me,” by Laura Dave (Simon & Schuster)
4. “It Ends With Us,” by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books)
5. “Our Missing Hearts,” by Celeste Ng (Penguin)
6. “Circe,” by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
7. “Just East of Nowhere,” by Scot Lehigh (Islandport)
8. “The Bullet That Missed,” by Richard Osman (Penguin Books)
9. “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” by Taylor Jenkin Reid (Washington Square Press)
10. “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Doubleday Books)
2. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkel (Knopf)
3. “The Creative Act,” by Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
4. “Blueberries for Sal Cookbook,” by Robert McCloskey (Clarkson Potter)
5. “Outlive,” by Peter Attia (Harmony)
6. “Atomic Habits,” by James Clear (Avery)
7. “What An Owl Knows,” by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin Press)
8. Poverty, by America,” by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
9. “Northeaster,” by Cathie Pelletier (Pegasus Books)
10. “The Underworld,” by Susan Casey (Doubleday)
Paperback
1. “American Prometheus,” by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin (Vintage)
2. “Solito,” by Javier Zamora (Hogarth)
3. “Killers of the Flower Moon,” by David Grann (Knopf)
4. “The Body Keeps the Score,” by Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D. (Penguin)
5. “Dopamine Nation,” by Dr. Anna Lembke (Dutton)
6. “River of the Gods,” by Candace Millard (Knopf)
7. “Crying in H Mart,” by Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
8. “Four Thousand Weeks,” by Oliver Burkeman (Picador)
9. “Being Mortal,” by Atul Gawande (Picador)
10. “Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
— Nonesuch Books & More, South Portland
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