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Fiction Hardcover

1. “Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition),” by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)

2. “Katabasis (Standard Edition),” by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)

3. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)

4. “The Hounding,” by Xenobe Purvis (Henry Holt and Co.)

5. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

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6. “The Emperor of Gladness,” by Ocean Vuong (Penguin)

7. “Audition,” by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead)

8. “The Wild Robot on the Island,” by Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

9. “The Island of Last Things,” by Emma Sloley (Flatiron)

10. “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: 30th Anniversary Edition,” by Michal Rosen (Little Simon)

Fiction Paperback

1. “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia Butler (Grand Central)

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2. “Maine Characters,” by Hannah Orenstein (Dutton)

3. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)

4. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)

5. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)

6. “If You’re Seeing This, It’s Meant for You,” by Leigh Stein (Ballantine)

7. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)

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8. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

9. “Martyr!,” by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)

10. “The Seas,” by Samantha Hunt (Tin House)

Nonfiction Hardcover

1. “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)

2. “Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization,” by Tim Queeney (St. Martin’s)

3. “The Place of Tides,” by James Rebanks (Mariner)

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4. “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)

5. “Everything is Tuberculosis,” by John Green (Crash Course)

6. “Strata,” by Laura Poppick (W.W. Norton)

7. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)

8. “The Gods of New York,” by Jonathan Mahler (Random House)

9. “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” by Seth Harp (Viking)

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10. “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future,” by Dan Wang (W. W. Norton & Company)

Nonfiction Paperback

1. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)

2. “What We See When We Read,” by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage)

3. “A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever,” by Matt Kracht (Chronicle)

4. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)

5. “Why Machines Learn,” by Anil Ananthaswamy (Dutton)

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6. “The Soul of an Octopus,” by Sy Montgomery (Atria)

7. “Trying: A Memoir,” by Chloe Caldwell (Graywolf)

8. “All About Love,” by Bell Hooks (William Morrow & Co)

9. “The Use of Photography,” by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie (Seven Stories)

10. “Perfect Victims,” by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket)

– Longfellow Books

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