FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Pitch Dark,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
2. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
3. “Fire Exit,” by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
4. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
5. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
6. “Granite Harbor,” by Peter Nichols (Celadon)
7. “North Woods,” by Daniel Mason (Random House)
8. “Funny Story,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
9. “The Berry Pickers,” by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
10. “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan (Grove)
Paperback
1. “Happy Place,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
2. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
3. “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches,” by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
4. “The Song of Achilles,” by Madeline Miller (Ecco)
5. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Puffin)
6. “Birnam Wood,” by Eleanor Catton (Picador)
7. “Weyward,” by Emilia Hart (St. Martin’s)
8. “Ghost Pains,” by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (And Other Stories)
9. “The Seas,” by Samantha Hunt (Tin House)
10. “Circe,” by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Demon of Unrest,” by Erik Larson (Crown)
2. “Maine, A Love Story,” by Blue Butterfield (self-published)
3. “Slow Productivity,” by Cal Newport (Portfolio)
4. “The Light Eaters,” by Zoe Schlanger (Harper)
5. “Laughing at the Sky,” by Heidi Love (self-published)
6. “You are Here,” by Ada Limón (Milkweed)
7. “Reading Genesis,” by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
8. “When the Clock Broke,” by John Ganz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
9. “How to Know a Person,” by David Brooks (Random House)
10. “Grief is for People,” by Sloane Crosley (MCD)
Paperback
1. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
2. “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)
3. “The Lobster Coast,” by Colin Woodard (Penguin)
4 “What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?” by Raja Shehadeh (Other Press)
5. “All Hands on Deck,” by Will Sofrin (Abrams)
6. “Poverty, By America,” by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
7. “Building,” by Mark Ellison (Random House)
8. “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” by Rashid Khalidi (Picador)
9. “What an Owl Knows,” by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin)
10. “The Unreality of Memory,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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