FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Intermezzo,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2. “Hot Mess (Diary of a Wimpy Kid): Volume 19,” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet)
3. “The Grey Wolf,” by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
4. “Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel,” by Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
5. “How to Read a Book,” by Monica Wood (Mariner)
6. “Tell Me Everything,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
7. “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan (Grove)
8. “The Circus Ship,” by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
9. “All Fours,” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
10. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Paperback
1. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
2. “The Thursday Murder Club,” by Richard Osman (Penguin)
3. “A Most Agreeable Murder,” by Julia Seales (Random House)
4. “North Woods,” by Daniel Mason (Random House)
5. “Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition),” by Jeff Vandermeer (Picador)
6. “Night and Day,” by John Connolly (Atria)
7. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Puffin)
8. “The Seas,” by Samantha Hunt (Tin House)
9. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
10. “French Exit,” by Patrick DeWitt (Ecco)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Message,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
2. “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts,” by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
3. “Lifeform,” By Jenny Slate (Little Brown)
4. “Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous,” by Gillian Anderson (Abrams)
5. “Patriot,” by Alexei Navalny (Knopf)
6. “What If We Get It Right?” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (One World)
7. “Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir,” by Ina Garten (Crown)
8. “War,” by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
9. “Health and Safety: A Breakdown,” by Emily Witt (Pantheon)
10. “Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches: A Cookbook,” by Matty Matheson (Ten Speed Press)
Paperback
1. “How to Listen,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
2. “Any Person is the Only Self: Essays,” by Elisa Gabbert (FSG Originals)
3. “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024,” by Bill McKibben (Mariner)
4. “Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical,” by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury)
5. “Doppelganger,” by Naomi Klein (Picador)
6. “What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?” by Raja Shehadeh (Other Press)
7. “Little Weirds,” by Jenny Slate (Back Bay)
8. “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” by Donn Fendler (Harper)
9. “The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works,” by Helen Czerski (W.W. Norton)
10. “Where Maine Reads,” by Buddy Doyle (self-published)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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