FICTION

Hardcover

1. “Lucy by the Sea,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
2. “Fairy Tale,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
3. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
4. “Lungfish,” by Meghan Gilliss (Catapult)
5. “Goodnight Maine,” by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books)
6. “Nona the Ninth,” by Tamsyn Muir (Tor)
7. “Less is Lost,” by Andrew Sean Greer (Little Brown)
8. “Hello Lighthouse,” by Sophie Blackall (Little Brown)
9. “The Circus Ship,” by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
10. “An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good,” by Helene Turston (Soho)

Paperback

1. “Night of the Living Rez,” by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
2. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Puffin)
3. “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” by Rivka Galchen (Picador)
4. “In the Woods,” by Tana French (Penguin)
5. “A Slow Fire Burning,” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
6. “French Exit,” by Patrick DeWitt (Ecco)
7. “Five Decembers,” by James Kestrel (Hard Case)
8. “Conversations with Friends,” by Sally Rooney (Hogarth)
9. “Matrix,” by Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
10. “The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners,” edited by Valeria Luiselli (Anchor)

NONFICTION

Hardcover

1. “Late Wonders,” by Wesley McNair (David R. Godine)
2. “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon)
3. “The Lost Kitchen,” by Erin French (Clarkson Potter)
4. “What If? 2,” by Randall Munroe (Riverhead)
5. “Four Thousand Weeks,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
6. “Stay True,” by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
7. “Downeast,” by Gigi Georges (Harper)
8. “Atlas of the Heart,” by Brené Brown (Random House)
9. “Breaking Bread,” edited by Deborah Joy Corey & Debra Spark (Beacon)
10. “The Myth of Normal,” by Gabor Maté (Avery)

Paperback

1. “Heart Berries,” by Terese Marie Mailhot (Counterpoint)
2. “Dark Traffic: Poems,” by Joan Naviyuk Kane (University of Pittsburgh)
3. “Mill Town,” by Kerri Arsenault (St. Martin’s)
4. “Good and Mad,” by Rebecca Traister (Simon)
5. “Sigh, Gone,” by Phuc Tran (Flatiron)
6. “Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
7. “Call Me American,” by Abdi Nor Iftin (Vintage)
8. “The Ride of Her Life,” by Elizabeth Letts (Ballantine)
9. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
10. “Walking Through History,” by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps)

— Longfellow Books, Portland

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