FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
2. “Moon Witch, Spider King,” by Marlon James (Riverhead)
3. “The Lincoln Highway,” by Amor Towles (Viking)
4. “Harlem Shuffle,” by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
5. “Five Tuesdays in Winter,” by Lily King (Grove)
6. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Viking)
7. “A Slow Fire Burning,” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
8. “The Employees,” by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
9. “Very Cold People,” by Sarah Manguso (Hogarth)
10. “Oh William!,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Paperback
1. “Rules for Visiting,” by Jessica Francis Kane (Penguin)
2. “The Night Ocean,” by Paul La Farge (Penguin)
3. “We Ride Upon Sticks,” by Quan Barry (Vintage)
4. “The Vanishing Half,” by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)
5. “The Guest List,” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow & Co.)
6. “Hamnet,” by Maggie O’Farrell (Vintage)
7. “A Gentleman in Moscow,” by Amor Towles (Viking)
8. “The Nickel Boys,” by Colson Whitehead (Anchor)
9. “Circe,” by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
10. “The Lying Life of Adults,” by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Wintering,” by Katherine May (Riverhead)
2. “Downeast,” by Gigi Georges (Harper)
3. “The 1619 Project,” by Nikole Hannah-Jones et al (One World)
4. “Orwell’s Roses,” by Rebecca Solnit (Viking)
5. “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” by Samin Nosrat (Simon)
6. “World Travel,” by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)
7. “The Lost Kitchen,” by Erin French (Clarkson Potter)
8. “How to Be Perfect,” by Michael Schur (Simon)
9. “The Nineties,” by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin)
10. “The Treeline,” by Ben Rawlence (St. Martin’s)
Paperback
1. “How the South Won the Civil War,” by Heather Cox Richardson (Oxford)
2. “Entangled Life,” by Merlin Sheldrake (Random House)
3. “Walking Through History,” by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps)
4. “The Best American Essays 2021,” edited by Kathryn Schulz (Mariner)
5. “Recollections of My Nonexistence,” by Rebecca Solnit (Penguin)
6. “The Body Keeps the Score,” by Bessel Van Der Kolk (Penguin)
7. “All About Love: New Visions,” by Bell Hooks (William Morrow & Co)
8. “How to Do Nothing,” by Jenny Odell (Melville)
9. “The Mushroom at the End of the World,” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Princeton)
10. “Big Friendship,” by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (Simon & Schuster)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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