FICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Hotel Nantucket,” by Elin Hilderbrand (Little Brown)
2. “Horse,” by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
3. “Lessons in Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
4. “This Time Tomorrow,” by Emma Straub (Riverhead Books)
5. “The Paris Apartment,” by Lucy Foley (Morrow)
6. “The Summer Place,” by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)
7. “Sparring Partners,” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
8. “The Midcoast,” by Adam White (Hogarth)
9. “Sea of Tranquility,” by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
10. “Lapnova,” by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
Paperback
1. “Book Lovers,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
2. “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square Press)
3. “Verity,” by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central Publishing)
4. “The Love Hypothesis,” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
5. “It Ends With Us,” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
6. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” by Delia Owens (Putnam)
7. “People We Meet on Vacation,” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
8. “The Personal Librarian,” by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley)
9. “Reminders of Him,” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)
10. “Circe,” by Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “An Immense World,” by Ed Yong (Random House)
2. “Rogues,” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
3. “Atomic Habits,” by James Clear (Avery)
4. “Atlas of the Heart,” by Brene Brown (Random House)
5. “River of the Gods,” by Candice Millard (Doubleday)
6. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse,” by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
7. “Crying in H Mart,” by Michelle Zauner (Knopf)
8. “Happy-Go-Lucky,” by David Sedaris (Little Brown)
9. “Finding Me,” by Viola Davis (HarperOne)
10. “Half Baked Harvest Every Day,” by Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter)
Paperback
1. “Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
2. “All About Love,” by bell hooks (Morrow)
3. “The Bomber Mafia,” by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay)
4. “The Splendid and the Vile,” by Erik Larson (Crown)
5. “The Ride of Her Life,” by Elizabeth Letts (Ballantine)
6. “Entangled Life,” by Merlin Sheldrake (Random House)
7. “Educated,” by Tara Westover (Random House)
8. “Between Two Kingdoms,” by Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
9. “Cuba,” by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
10. “Fox and I,” by Catherine Raven (Spiegel & Grau)
— Nonesuch Books & More, South Portland
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