FICTION

Hardcover

1. “The Furies,” by John Connolly (Atria)
2. “Lucy by the Sea,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
3. “Lungfish,” by Meghan Gilliss (Catapult)
4. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
5. “Fairy Tale,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
6. “Shadow Voices,” by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
7. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
8. “Bliss Montage,” by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
9. “Mad Honey,” by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine)
10. “Our Missing Hearts,” by Celeste Ng (Penguin)

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. “Gideon the Ninth,” by Tamsyn Muir (Tor)
5. “The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners,” edited by Valeria Luiselli (Anchor)
6. “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
7. “It Starts with Us,” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
8. “Still Life,” by Sarah Winman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
9. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage)
10. “We Ride Upon Sticks,” by Quan Barry (Vintage)

NONFICTION

Hardcover

1. “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon)
2. “What If? 2,” by Randall Munroe (Riverhead)
3. “American Midnight,” by Adam Hochschild (Mariner)
4. “Indigenous Continent,” by Pekka Hämäläinen (Liveright)
5. “Dinner in One,” by Melissa Clark (Clarkson Potter)
6. “Stay True,” by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
7. “Pretty Good House,” by Dan Kolbert et al (Tauton)
8. “American Sirens,” by Kevin Hazzard (Hachette)
9. “Over My Dead Body,” by Greg Melville (Abrams)
10. “Down and Out in Paradise,” by Charles Leerhsen (Simon)

Paperback

1. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
2. “Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
3. “Islands of Abandonment,” by Cal Flyn (Penguin)
4. “The Stranger in the Woods,” by Michael Finkel (Knopf)
5. “The Book of Delights,” by Ross Gay (Algonquin)
6. “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” by George Saunders (Random House)
7. “How to Not Always Be Working,” by Marlee Grace (Morrow)
8. “Somebody’s Daughter,” by Ashley C. Ford (Flatiron)
9. “The Maine Atlas & Gazetteer” (Delorme)
10. “The Antidote,” by Oliver Burkeman (Picador)

— Longfellow Books, Portland

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