FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan (Grove)
2. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
3. “Three Days in June,” by Anne Tyler (Knopf)
4. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
5. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
6. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
7. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
8. “Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee,” by Chris Van Dusen (Chronicle)
9. “Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood (Riverhead)
10. “The Snowy Day,” by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
Paperback
1. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
2. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
3. “Martyr!,” by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
4. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
5. “The Seas,” by Samantha Hunt (Tin House)
6. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
7. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
8. “Big Swiss,” by Jen Beagin (Scribner)
9. “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches,” by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
10. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Let Them Theory,” by Mel Robbins (Hay House)
2. “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)
3. “Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous,” by Gillian Anderson (Abrams)
4. “The Message,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
5. “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
6. “Lifeform,” By Jenny Slate (Little Brown)
7. “The Demon of Unrest,” by Erik Larson (Crown)
8. “Waste Land,” by Robert D. Kaplan (Random House)
9. “Everything Must Go,” by Dorian Lynskey (Pantheon)
10. “The World After Gaza,” by Pankaj Mishra (Penguin)
Paperback
1. “Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein (Picador)
2. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
3. “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor)
4. “Little Weirds,” by Jenny Slate (Back Bay)
5. “Dopamine Nation,” by Anna Lembke (Penguin)
6. “Of Time and Turtles,” by Sy Montgomery (Mariner)
7. “Building,” by Mark Ellison (Random House)
8. “How to Listen,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
9. “On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan)
10. “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” by Donn Fendler (Harper)
— Longfellow Books
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