FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
2. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
3. “The Lincoln Highway,” by Amor Towles (Viking)
4. “Oh William!,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
5. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
6. “Change Sings,” by Amanda Gorman (Viking)
7. “The Snowy Day,” by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
8. “Crossroads,” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
9. “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
10. “No One is Talking About This,” by Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead)
Paperback
1. “Rules for Visiting,” by Jessica Francis Kane (Penguin)
2. “Hamnet,” by Maggie O’Farrell (Vintage)
3. “The Searcher,” by Tana French (Penguin)
4. “A Gentleman in Moscow,” by Amor Towles (Viking)
5. “The Best American Short Stories 2021,” edited by Jesmyn Ward (Mariner)
6. “The Lying Life of Adults,” by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
7. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
8. “Girl in Snow,” by Danya Kukafka (Simon)
9. “Apeirogon,” by Colum McCann (Random House)
10. “All the Devils are Here,” by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Atlas of the Heart,” by Brené Brown (Random House)
2. “A Little Devil in America,” by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
3. “The 1619 Project,” by Nikole Hannah-Jones et al (One World)
4. “Call Us What We Carry,” by Amanda Gorman (Viking)
5. “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,” by George Saunders (Random House)
6. “These Precious Days,” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
7. “Downeast,” by Gigi Georges (Harper)
8. “Finding the Mother Tree,” by Suzanne Simard (Knopf)
9. “East,” by Meera Sodha (Flatiron)
10. “Caste,” by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Paperback
1. “Take It Easy,” by John Duncan (Islandport)
2. “The Mushroom at the End of the World,” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Princeton)
3. “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” by Joan Didion (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
4. “Mill Town,” by Kerri Arsenault (St. Martin’s)
5. “Good Boy,” by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Celadon)
6. “Come As You Are,” by Emily Nagoski (Simon)
7. “All About Love: New Visions,” by Bell Hooks (William Morrow & Co)
8. “Several Short Sentences about Writing,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Vintage)
9. “How to Do Nothing,” by Jenny Odell (Melville)
10. “The Maine Atlas & Gazetteer” (Delorme)
— Longfellow Books, Portland
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