FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Heart the Lover,” by Lily King (Grove)
2. “Wild Dark Shore,” by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron)
3. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
4. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
5. “The Glass Eel,” by J. J. Viertel (Mysterious)
6. “Atmosphere: A Love Story,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
7. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
8. “The Compound,” by Aisling Rawle (Random House)
9. “Dahlov Ipcar’s Maine Alphabet,” by Dahlov Ipcar (Down East)
10. “My Friends,” by Fredrik Backman (Atria)
Paperback
1. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
2. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
3. “The History of Sound,” by Ben Shattuck (Penguin)
4. “Maine Characters,” by Hannah Orenstein (Dutton)
5. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
6. “Helen of Nowhere,” by Makenna Goodman (Coffee House)
7. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
8. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
9. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
10. “A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping,” by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Good Things,” by Samin Nosrat (Random House)
2. “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
3. “All the Way to the River,” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead)
4. “Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization,” by Tim Queeney (St. Martin’s)
5. “Raising Hare: A Memoir,” by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon)
6. “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” by Arundhati Roy (Scribner)
7. “Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival,” by Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton & Company)
8. “Everything is Tuberculosis,” by John Green (Crash Course)
9. “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,” by Peter Beinart (Knopf)
10. “Coming Up Short,” by Robert B. Reich (Knopf)
Paperback
1. “When We Were the Kennedys,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
2. “Why Machines Learn,” by Anil Ananthaswamy (Dutton)
3. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
4. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
5. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
6. “No Straight Road Takes You There,” By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket)
7. “On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan)
8. “Any Person is the Only Self: Essays,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)
9. “A Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America,” by Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
10. “Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose,” by Mary Oliver (Grand Central)
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