FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Skin and Bones,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
2. “The Emperor of Gladness,” by Ocean Vuong (Penguin)
3. “The Children of Eve,” by John Connolly (Atria)
4. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
5. “Great Big Beautiful Life,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
6. “Will the Pigeon Graduate?,” by Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
7. “Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
8. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
9. “Richard Scarry’s Lowly Worm Word Book,” by Richard Scarry (Random House Books for Young Readers)
10. “Heartwood,” by Amity Gaige (Simon & Schuster)
Paperback
1. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
2. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)
3. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
4. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage)
5. “Tom Lake,” by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
6. “North Woods,” by Daniel Mason (Random House)
7. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
8. “This is How You Lose the Time War,” by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Gallery)
9. “Venomous Lumpsucker,” by Ned Beauman (Soho)
10. “Sea of Tranquility,” by Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
2. “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)
3. “Meditations for Mortals,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
4. “Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America,” by Russell Shorto (W. W. Norton)
5. “Dinner in One,” by Melissa Clark (Clarkson Potter)
6. “Mark Twain,” by Ron Chernow (Penguin)
7. “We Can Do Hard Things,” by Glennon Doyle (Dial)
8. “Lawless,” by Leah Litman (Atria/One Signal)
9. “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” by Anonymous (Washington Square)
10. “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Paperback
1. “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism,” by Rachel Maddow (Crown)
2. “Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs,” by Jamie Loftus (Forge)
3. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Vintage)
4. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
5. “American Character,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
6. “On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan)
7. “A Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America,” by Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
8. “Ararat: Poems,” by Louise Gluck ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
9. “Dysphoria Mundi,” by Paul B. Preciado (Graywolf)
10. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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