FICTION
Hardcover
1. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner Books)
2. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
3. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
4. “Death at the Sign of the Rook,” by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday Books)
5. “The Wedding People,” by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co)
6. “The Women,” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)
7. “Swan Song,” by Elin Hilderbrand (Little Brown & Co)
8. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday Books)
9. “The God of The Woods,” by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
10. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Paperback
1. “The Best Short Stories 2024,” by Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.) (Vintage)
2. “The Bee Sting,” by Paul Murray (Picador)
3. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
4. “The Housemaid, by Freida MacFadden (Grand Central)
5. “Fourth Wing,” by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
6. “A Court of Thorns & Roses,” by Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury)
7. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Penguin)
8. “Holly,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
9. “A Court of Mist & Fury,” by Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury)
10. “The Nightingale,” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Demon of Unrest,” by Erik Larson (Crown)
2. “Kingmaker,” by Sonia Purnell (Viking)
3. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Doubleday)
4. “Nexus,” by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House)
5. “On Freedom,” by Timothy Snyder (Crown)
6. “On the Edge,” by Nate Silver (Penguin Press)
7. “The Bookshop,” by Evan Friss (Viking)
8. “An Unfinished Love Story,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
9. “The Wide Wide Sea,” by Hampton Sides (Knopf)
10. “I Heard There Was a Secret Chord,” by Daniel J Levitin (W.W. Norton)
Paperback
1. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkel (Knopf)
2. “The Truths We Hold,” by Kamala Harris (Penguin)
3. “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” by Amy Tan (Knopf)
4. “The Hundreds Years’ War on Palestine,” by Rashid Khalidi (Picador)
5. “The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2025 Almanac,” by Old Farmer’s Almanac (Old Farmer’s Almanac)
6. “Sacred Nature,” by Karen Armstrong (Knopf)
7. “The Body Keeps the Score,” by Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D.
8. “Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein (Picador)
9. “Killers of the Flower Moon,” by David Grann (Knopf)
10. “Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
— Nonesuch Books & More, South Portland
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