FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Heart the Lover,” by Lily King (Grove)
2. “The Book of Dust: The Rose Field (Book of Dust, Volume 3),” by Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
3. “The Black Wolf,” by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
4. “The Secret of Secrets,” by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
5. “The Impossible Fortune,” by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)
6. “What We Can Know,” by Ian McEwan (Knopf)
7. “The Correspondent,” by Virginia Evans (Crown)
8. “Shadow Ticket,” by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin)
9. “If I Built a Town,” by Chris Van Dusen (Rocky Pond)
10. “Katabasis (Standard Edition),” by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Paperback
1. “Maine Characters,” by Hannah Orenstein (Dutton)
2. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
3. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Picador)
4. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
5. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
6. “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
7. “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches,” by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
8. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
9. “This is How You Lose the Time War,” by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Gallery)
10. “Mate,” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “We Survived the Night,” by Julian Brave NoiseCat (Knopf)
2. “Enshittification,” by Cory Doctorow (MCD)
3. “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation,” by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)
4. “Good Things,” by Samin Nosrat (Random House)
5. “Against the Machine,” by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis)
6. “Giving Up Is Unforgivable,” by Joyce Vance (Dutton)
7. “Everything is Tuberculosis,” by John Green (Crash Course)
8. “107 Days,” by Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
9. “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” by Samin Nosrat (Simon)
10. “The Far Edges of the Known World,” by Owen Rees (W. W. Norton & Company)
Paperback
1. “Of Time and Turtles,” by Sy Montgomery (Mariner)
2. “Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II,” by Elyse Graham (Ecco)
3. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
4. “Trying: A Memoir,” by Chloe Caldwell (Graywolf)
5. “Walking Through History,” by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps)
6. “Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose,” by Mary Oliver (Grand Central)
7. “The Best American Poetry 2025,” edited by David Lehman (Scribner)
8. “Lifeform,” by Jenny Slate (Back Bay Books)
9. “Fight Oligarchy,” by Bernie Sanders (Crown)
10. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
— Longfellow Books
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