FICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Society of Shame,” by Jane Roper (Anchor)
2. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
3. “Happy Place,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
4. “Small Mercies,” by Dennis Lehane (Harper)
5. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
6. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
7. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
8. “Romantic Comedy,” by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
9. “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
10. “Lessons in Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
Paperback
1. “Lucky Turtle,” by Bill Roorbach (Algonquin)
2. “Any Bitter Thing,” by Monica Wood (David R. Godine)
3. “Night of the Living Rez,” by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
4. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)
5. “Trust,” by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead)
6. “The Guest List,” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)
7. “The Song of Achilles,” by Madeline Miller (Ecco)
8. “The Candy House,” by Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
9. “The House in Cerulean Sea,” by TJ Klune (Tor)
10. “The Best American Short Stories 2022,” edited by Andrew Sean Greer (Mariner)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “American Breakdown,” by Jennifer Lunden (Harper)
2. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Doubleday)
3. “The Creative Act,” by Rick Rubin (Penguin)
4. “My Man in Antibes,” by Michael Mewshaw (David R. Godine)
5. “Mother Brain,” by Chelsea Conaboy (Henry Holt)
6. “Poverty, By America,” by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
7. “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon)
8. “Wintering,” by Katherine May (Riverhead)
9. “Monsters,” by Claire Dederer (Knopf)
10. “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” by Maggie Smith (Atria)
Paperback
1. “Downeast,” by Gigi Georges (Harper)
2. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
3. “Dopamine Nation,” by Anna Lembke (Dutton)
4. “How to Tell a Story,” from The Moth (Crown)
5. “Mill Town,” by Kerri Arsenault (St. Martin’s)
6. “The Dawn of Everything,” by David Graeber & David Wengrow (Picador)
7. “Devotions,” by Mary Oliver (Penguin)
8. “Walking Through History,” by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps)
9. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
10. “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial,” by Deborah Cohen (Random House)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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