FICTION
Hardcover
1. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
2. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
3. “Three Days in June,” by Anne Tyler (Knopf)
4. “Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood (Riverhead)
5. “The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish,” by Shawn Harris (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
6. “Dream Count,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)
7. “Time of the Child,” by Niall Williams (Bloomsbury Publishing)
8. “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” by Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
9. “The Safekeep,” by Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)
10. “Beautiful Blackbird,” by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
Paperback
1. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
2. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
3. “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey (Grove)
4. “Night of the Living Rez,” by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
5. “The Vegetarian,” by Han Kang (Hogarth)
6. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
7. “The Song of Achilles,” by Madeline Miller (Ecco)
8. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
9. “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt (Vintage)
10. “Fourth Wing,” by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)
2. “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
3. “Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous,” by Gillian Anderson (Abrams)
4. “Bye Bye I Love You,” by Michael Erard (The MIT Press)
5. “The Message,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
6. “Didion and Babitz,” by Lili Anolik (Scribner)
7. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)
8. “The Comfort of Crows,” by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
9. “The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation,” by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
10. “The Coast of Maine,” by Carl Heilman II (Rizzoli International)
Paperback
1. “On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan)
2. “All Hands on Deck,” by Will Sofrin (Abrams)
3. “Several Short Sentences About Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
4. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
5. “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” by Donn Fendler (Harper)
6. “Of Time and Turtles,” by Sy Montgomery (Mariner)
7. “Any Person is the Only Self: Essays,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)
8. “The Wager,” by David Grann (Vintage)
9. “Grief Is for People,” by Sloane Crosley (Picador)
10. “What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?” by Raja Shehadeh (Other Press)
— Longfellow Books
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