FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
2. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
3. “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan (Grove)
4. “The Antidote,” by Karen Russell (Knopf)
5. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
6. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
7. “The God of the Woods,” by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
8. “Three Days in June,” by Anne Tyler (Knopf)
9. “The Eyes and the Impossible,” by Dave Eggers (Knopf)
10. “Dream Count,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)
Paperback
1. “The Frozen River,” by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
2. “Martyr!,” by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
3. “North Woods,” by Daniel Mason (Random House)
4. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
5. “I Who Have Never Known Men,” by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)
6. “Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey (Grove)
7. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
8. “The Secret History,” by Donna Tartt (Vintage)
9. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
10. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Careless People,” by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron)
2. “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
3. “Everything is Tuberculosis,” by John Green (Crash Course)
4. “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)
5. “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
6. “The Creative Act,” by Rick Rubin (Penguin)
7. “Big Panda and Tiny Dragon,” by James Norbury (Mandala)
8. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)
9. “Raising Hare: A Memoir,” by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon)
10. “There’s Always This Year,” by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Paperback
1. “A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever,” by Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
2. “The Art Thief,” by Michael Finkle (Vintage)
3. “Several Short Sentences About Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
4. “Of Time and Turtles,” by Sy Montgomery (Mariner)
5. “Little Weirds,” by Jenny Slate (Back Bay)
6. “Hope in the Dark,” by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket)
7. “Another Woman,” by Hannah Bonner (EastOver Press)
8. “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor)
9. “The Unreality of Memory,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG)
10. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
—Longfellow Books
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