FICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Passenger,” by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf)
2. “Horse,” by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
3. “Our Missing Hearts,” by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)
4. “Desert Star,” by Michael Connelly (Little Brown and Company)
5. “Mad Honey,” by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine)
6. “Babel,” by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
7. “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
8. “Lessons in Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
9. “Hatchet Island,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
10. “Sardines,” by Sashi Kaufman (Quill Tree Books)
Paperback
1. “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square Press)
2. “Silent Patient,” by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books)
3. “Us Against You,” by Fredrik Backman (Simon & Schuster)
4. “It Starts With Us,” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
5. “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine)
6. “The Bullet That Missed,” by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
7. “Boundary Waters,” by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
8. “Anxious People,” by Fredrik Backman (Washington Square Press)
9. “Night of The Living Rez,” by Morgan Talty (Tin House Books)
10. “It Ends With Us,” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “The Light We Carry,” by Michelle Obama (Crown)
2. “Dinner In One,” by Melissa Clark (Clarkson Potter)
3. “Starry Messenger,” by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Henry Holt & Co)
4. “American Midnight,” by Adam Hochschild (Mariner Books)
5. “Pretty Good House,” by Michael Maines (Taunton Press)
6. “Dinners with Ruth,” by Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
7. “The Mosquito Bowl, by Buzz Bissinger (Harper)
8. “South to America,” by Imani Perry (Ecco)
9. “Surrender,” by Bono (Knopf)
10. “And Then There was Light,” by Jon Meacham (Random House)
Paperback
1. “These Precious Days,” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
2. “Water,” by Giulio Boccaletti (Vintage)
3. “Ejaculate Responsibly,” by Gabrielle Stanley Blair (Workman)
4. “The Wolf Age,” by Tore Skeie (Pushkin Press)
5. “Maine Community Cookbook 200 More Recipes,” by Margaret Hathaway (Islandport)
6. “Take It Easy: Portland in the 1970s,” by John Duncan (Islandport)
7. “The 2023 Old Farmer’s Almanac,” by Old Farmer’s Almanac (Old Farmer’s Almanac)
8. “Braiding Sweetgrass,” by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
9. “Empire of Pain,” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Knopf)
10. “All About Love,” by Bell Hooks (Harper)
— Nonesuch Books & More, South Portland
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