FICTION

Hardcover

1. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
2. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
3. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
4. “The God of the Woods,” by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
5. “The Life Impossible,” by Matt Haig (Viking)
6. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
7. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
8. “The Cliffs,” by J. Courtney Sullivan (Knopf)
9. “The Women,” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s)
10. “One Morning in Maine,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

Paperback

1. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
2. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
3. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
4. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Puffin)
5. “The Guest List,” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)
6. “The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners,” edited by Amor Towles (Vintage)
7. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)
8. “How to Stop Time,” by Matt Haig (Penguin)
9. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
10. “The Most,” by Jessica Anthony (Little Brown)

NONFICTION

Hardcover

1. “Nexus,” by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House)
2. “The Anxious Generation,” by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin)
3. “The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum,” by Margalit Fox (Random House)
4. “World More Beautiful,” by Angela Burke Kunkel (Random House)
5. “Lovely One,” by Ketanji Brown Jackson (Random House)
6. “What If We Get It Right?” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (One World)
7. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)
8. “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” by Samin Nosrat (Simon)
9. “A Walk In the Park,” by Kevin Fedarko (Scribner)
10. “There’s Always This Year,” by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)

Paperback

1. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
2. “Any Person Is the Only Self,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG)
3. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
4. “What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?” by Raja Shehadeh (Other Press)
5. “I Was Told There’d be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
6. “Fire Weather,” by John Vaillant (Vintage)
7. “Poverty, By America,” by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
8. “Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein (Picador)
9. “How to Listen,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
10. “Another Woman,” by Hannah Boner

— Longfellow Books, Portland