FICTION

Hardcover

1. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
2. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
3. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
4. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
5. “The God of the Woods,” by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
6. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
7. “Goodnight Maine,” by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books)
8. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
9. “Somewhere Beyond the Sea,” by TJ Klune (Tor)
10. “We Solve Murders,” by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)

Paperback

1. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
2. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
3. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Puffin)
4. “The Seas,” by Samantha Hunt (Tin House)
5. “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
6. “French Exit,” by Patrick DeWitt (Ecco)
7. “The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners,” edited by Amor Towles (Vintage)
8. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
9. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)
10. “How to Stop Time,” by Matt Haig (Penguin)

NONFICTION

Hardcover

1. “What If We Get It Right?” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (One World)
2. “Nexus,” by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House)
3. “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” by Amy Tan (Knopf)
4. “World More Beautiful,” by Angela Burke Kunkel (Random House)
5. “The Coast of Maine,” by Carl Heilman II (Rizzoli International)
6. “Little Local Maine Cookbook,” by Annie B. Copps (Countryman)
7. “Come Together,” by Emily Nagoski (Ballantine)
8. “Lost: Back to the Island,” by Emily St. James (Abrams)
9. “The Extinction of Experience,” by Christine Rosen (Norton)
10. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)

Paperback

1. “I Was Told There’d be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
2. “How to Listen,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
3. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
4. “Walking Through History,” by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps)
5. “Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein (Picador)
6. “Notes on Complexity,” by Neil Theise (Spiegel & Grau)
7. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
8. “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor)
9. “Little Weirds,” by Jenny Slate (Back Bay)
10. “Sapiens,” by Yuval Noah Harari (Harper)

— Longfellow Books, Portland