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FICTION

Hardcover

1. “Atmosphere,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
2. “The River is Waiting,” by Wally Lamb (S&S/ Marysue Rucci)
3. “Skin and Bones,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
4. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
5. “The Correspondent,” by Virginia Evans (Crown)
6. “Big Truck Little Island,” by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
7. “Never Flinch,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
8. “Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
9. “The Emperor of Gladness,” by Ocean Vuong (Penguin)
10. “Heartwood,” by Amity Gaige (Simon & Schuster)

Paperback

1. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
2. “Martyr!,” by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
3. “The Safekeep,” by Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)
4. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
5. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
6. “Piranesi,” by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
7. “Julia,” by Sandra Newman (Mariner)
8. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
9. “Night of the Living Rez,” by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
10. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)

NONFICTION

Hardcover

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1. “Everything is Tuberculosis,” by John Green (Crash Course)
2. “Is a River Alive?,” by Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton)
3. “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)
4. “Lifeform,” By Jenny Slate (Little Brown)
5. “Carbon: The Book of Life,” by Paul Hawken (Viking)
6. “The Fate of the Day,” by Rick Atkinson (Crown)
7. “Girl on Girl,” by Sophie Gilbert (Penguin)
8. “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” by Samin Nosrat (Simon)
9. “The Möbius Book,” by Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
10. “Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President,” by E. Jean Carroll (St. Martin’s Press)

Paperback

1. “No Straight Road Takes You There,” By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket)
2. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
3. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
4. “The Unreality of Memory,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG)
5. “There’s Always This Year,” by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
6. “Nostalgia,” by Agnes Arnold-Forster (Picador UK)
7. “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
8. “Any Person is the Only Self: Essays,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)
9. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Vintage)
10. “Of Time and Turtles,” by Sy Montgomery (Mariner)

— Longfellow Books, Portland

Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came...

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