FICTION
Hardcover
1. “Lucy by the Sea,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
2. “Horse,” by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
3. “The Winners,” by Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
4. “Fellowship Point,” by Alice Elliott Dark (Scribner/Marysue Ricci Books)
5. “The Marriage Portrait,” by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)
6. “City on Fire,” by Don Winslow (William Morrow)
7. “Lessons in Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
8. “The Bullet That Missed,” by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
9. “Fairy Tale,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
10. “Lessons in Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
Paperback
1. “The Personal Librarian,” by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley)
2. “The Silent Patient,” by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books)
3. “The Sentence,” by Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial)
4. “Home Again,” by Kristin Hannah (Ballantine Books)
5. “Malibu Rising,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
6. “Verity,” by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central)
7. “West With Giraffes,” by Lynda Rutledge (Lake Union Publishing)
8. “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
9. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” by Delia Owens (Putnam)
10. “It Ends With Us,” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
NONFICTION
Hardcover
1. “Dinners With Ruth,” by Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
2. “Dinner in One,” by Melissa Clark (Clarkson Potter)
3. “Mother Brain,” by Chelsea Conaboy (Henry Holt & Co)
4. “Atomic Habits,” by James Clear (Avery)
5. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse,” by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
6. “The Myth of Normal,” by Gabor Mate M.D. (Avery)
7. “Sacred Nature,” by Karen Armstrong (Knopf)
8. “Profiles in Ignorance,” by Andy Borowitz (Avid Reader Press)
9. “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
10. “Holding the Line,” by Geoffrey Berman (Penguin Press)
Paperback
1. “Finding the Mother Tree,” by Suzanne Simard (Vintage)
2. “The Ghosts of Walter Crockett,” by W. Edward Crockett (Islandport Press)
3. “How the South Won The Civil War,” by Heather Cox Richardson (Oxford University Press)
4. “Children of Ash and Elm,” by Neil Price (Basic Books)
5. “The 2023 Old Farmer’s Almanac,” by Old Farmer’s Almanac (Old Farmer’s Almanac)
6. “Fuzz,” by Mary Roach (Norton)
7. “Women Rowing North,” by Mary Pipher (Bloomsbury Publishing)
8. “Between Two Kingdoms,” by Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
9. “Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America,” by Gigi Georges (Harper Perennial)
10. “The Books of Delights,” by Ross Gay (Algonquin Books)
— Nonesuch Books & More, South Portland
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