FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
3. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
4. “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan (Grove)
5. “The God of the Woods,” by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
6. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
7. “Creation Lake,” by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
8. “Cranky,” by Phuc Tran (Harper)
9. “Madwoman,” by Chelsea Bieker (Little Brown)
10. “Mother Bruce,” by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney- Hyperion)
Paperback
1. “North Woods,” by Daniel Mason (Random House)
2. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
3. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)
4. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
5. “The Little Island,” by Margaret Wise Brown (Doubleday)
6. “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” by Rivka Galchen (Picador)
7. “Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition),” by Jeff Vandermeer (Picador)
8. “The Circus Ship,” by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
9. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Puffin)
10. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “What If We Get It Right?” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (One World)
2. “The Message,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
3. “Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir,” by Ina Garten (Crown)
4. “War,” by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
5. “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
6. “The Science of Spice,” by Stuart Farrimond (DK)
7. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)
8. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Doubleday)
9. “Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous,” by Gillian Anderson (Abrams)
10. “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering,” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown)
Paperback
1. “Any Person is the Only Self: Essays,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)
2. “I Was Told There’d be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
3. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
4. “How to Listen,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
5. “Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein (Picador)
6. “Wild Girls,” by Tiya Miles (W. W. Norton)
7. “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” by George Saunders (Random House)
8. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
9. “The Lonely City,” by Olivia Laing (Picador)
10. “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” by Rashid Khalidi (Picador)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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