Fiction
Hardcover
1. “The Girl on the Train,” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
2. “The English Spy,” by Daniel Silva (Harper)
3. “The Precipice,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
4. “All the Light We Cannot See,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
5. “A Spool of Blue Thread,” by Anne Tyler (Knopf)
6. “The Nightingale,” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)
7. “In the Unlikely Event,” by Judy Blume (Knopf)
8. “The Book of Speculation,” by Erika Swyler (St. Martin’s Press)
9. “A God in Ruins,” by Kate Atkinson (Little Brown)
10. “The Little Paris Bookshop,” by Nina George (Crown)
Paperback
1. “A Man Called Ove,” by Fredrik Backman (Washington Square Press)
2. “Norwegian by Night,” by Derek B. Miller (Mariner)
3. “Delicious!,” by Ruth Reichl (Random House)
4. “The Bone Orchard,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
5. “Euphoria,” by Lily King (Grove Press)
6. “The Martian,” by Andy Weir (Broadway Books)
7. “The Invention of Wings,” by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
8. “The Goldfinch,” by Donna Tartt (Back Bay Books)
9. “Everything I Never Told You,” by Celeste Ng (Penguin)
10. “The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow)
Nonfiction
Hardcover
1. “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” by Marie Kondo (Ten Speed Press)
2. “The Negotiator,” by George Mitchell (Simon & Schuster)
3. “Being Mortal,” by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan)
4. “Dead Wake,” by Erik Larson (Crown)
5. “The Wright Brothers,” by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
6. “Triggers,” by Marshall Goldsmith (Crown Business)
7. “The Historical Atlas of Maine,” by Stephen J. Hornsby (University of Maine Press)
8. “H is for Hawk,” by Helen MacDonald (Grove Press)
9. “Modern Romance,” by Aziz Ansari (Penguin)
10. “The Road to Character,” by David Brooks (Random House)
Paperback
1. “How to Love,” by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax)
2. “The Islandport Guide to Lighthouses in Maine,” by Ted Panayotoff (Islandport Press)
3. “The Boys in the Boat,” by Daniel James Brown (Penguin)
4. “The Opposite of Loneliness,” by Marina Keegan (Scribner)
5. “David and Goliath,” by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay)
6. “In the Kingdom of Ice,” by Hampton Sides (Anchor Books)
7. “The Lady in Gold,” by Anne-Marie O’Connor (Vintage)
8. “A Spy Among Friends,” by Ben Macintyre (Broadway)
9. “How Not to Be Wrong,” by Jordan Ellenberg (Penguin)
10. “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed (Vintage)
– Nonesuch Books and Cards, South Portland
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