FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Katabasis,” by R. F. Kuang (Harper)
2. “Spectacular Things,” by Beck Dorey-Stein (Dial Press)
3. “Atmosphere,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
4. “The Correspondent,” by Virginia Evans (Crown)
5. “She Didn’t See It Coming,” by Shari Lapena (Penguin)
6 “The River is Waiting,” by Wally Lamb (Simon & Schuster)
7. “My Friends,” by Fredrick Backman (Atria)
8. “So Far Gone,” by Jess Walter (Harper)
9. “Great Big Beautiful Life,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
10. “The Emperor of Gladness,” by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
Paperback
1. “Yellowface,” by R. F. Kuang (William Morrow)
2. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
3. “Sandwich,” by Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial)
4. “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine)
5. “Remarkably Bright Creatures,” by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
6. “Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” by James McBride (Riverhead)
7. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade)
8. “All the Colors of the Dark,” by Chris Whitaker (Crown)
9. “Maine Characters,” by Hannah Orenstein (Penguin)
10. “Death At The Sign of the Rook,” by Kate Atkinson (Vintage)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Coming Up Short,” by Robert B. Reich (Knopf)
2. “A Marriage at Sea,” by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
3. “Rope,” by Tim Queeney (St. Martin’s Press)
4. “The Let Them Theory,” by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins (Hay House LLC)
5. “Crafting A Better World,” by Diana Weymar (Harper)
6. “The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care,” by Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
7. “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press)
8. “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” by Omar El Akkad
(Knopf)
9. “The Serviceberry,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
10. “The Book of Alchemy,” by Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Paperback
1. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Vintage)
2. “Didion and Babitz,” by Lili Anolik (Scribner)
3. “All About Love,” by bell hooks (Morrow)
4. “The Wide Wide Sea,” by Hampton Sides (Knopf)
5. “Portland,” by Frank H. Sleeper (Arcadia Press)
6. “Walking Through History,” by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps Publishing)
7. “Birds of Maine Field Guide,” by Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
8. “A People’s History of the United States,” by Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial)
9. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
10. “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” by Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books)
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