FICTION
Hardcover
1. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
2. “Granite Harbor,” by Peter Nichols (Celadon)
3. “Funny Story,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
4. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
5. “Goodnight Moon,” by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper)
6. “You Like it Darker,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
7. “The Women,” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s)
8. “Table for Two,” by Amor Towles (Viking)
9. “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan (Grove)
10. “Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets,” by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney Hyperion)
Paperback
1. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
2. “In Memoriam,” by Alice Winn (Vintage)
3. “Kairos,” by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Direct)
4. “Birnam Wood,” by Eleanor Catton (Picador)
5. “Happy Place,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
6. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
7. “Weyward,” by Emilia Hart (St. Martin’s)
8. “Either/Or,” by Elif Batuman (Penguin)
9. “Small Mercies,” by Dennis Lehane (Harper)
10. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Making it in America,” by Rachel Slade (Pantheon)
2. “The Demon of Unrest,” by Erik Larson (Crown)
3. “There’s Always This Year,” by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
4. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)
5. “The Anxious Generation,” by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin)
6. “The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty,” edited by The Moth (Crown)
7. “Big Panda and Tiny Dragon,” by James Norbury (Mandala)
8. “Congratulations by the Way,” by George Saunders (Random House)
9. “The Light Eaters,” by Zoe Schlanger (Harper)
10. “Nuclear War,” by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton)
Paperback
1. “How to Love,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
2. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
3. “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor)
4. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
5. “All About Love,” by Bell Hooks (William Morrow & Co)
6. “An Immense World,” by Ed Yong (Random House)
7. “The Soul of an Octopus,” by Sy Montgomery (Atria)
8. “Building,” by Mark Ellison (Random House)
9. “Without A Map,” by Meredith Hall (Beacon)
10. “A Chance Meeting,” by Rachel Cohen (New York Review of Books)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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