Hardcover fiction
1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress.
2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
3. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books: $29) As sea levels rise, a family on a remote island rescues a mysterious woman.
4. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books: $28) An accomplished actor grapples with the varied roles she plays in her personal life.
5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp.
6. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Pantheon: $29) A woman fights for freedom in a near-future where even dreams are under surveillance.
7. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster: $29) A love triangle unearths dangerous secrets.
8. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history.
9. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co.: $29) An unexpected wedding guest gets surprise help.
10. Strangers in Time by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing: $30) Two London teens scarred by World War II find an unexpected ally in a bereaved bookshop owner.
Hardcover nonfiction
1. Notes to John by Joan Didion (Knopf: $32) Diary entries from the famed writer’s journal.
2. Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A call to renew a politics of plenty and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
3. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can’t control.
4. Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi (Dey Street Books: $33) A memoir from the vocalist, bassist and founding member of pop-punk band Blink-182.
5. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer on how to be a creative person.
6. Everything Is Tuberculosis (signed edition) by John Green (Crash Course Books: $28). The deeply human story of the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) Reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
8. When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter (Penguin Press: $32) The former Vanity Fair editor recalls the glamorous heyday of print magazines.
9. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron Books: $33) An insider’s account of working at Facebook.
10. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (Pantheon: $27) A meditation on freedom, trust, loss and our relationship with the natural world.
Paperback fiction
1. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18)
2. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage: $18)
3. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press: $17)
4. Table for Two by Amor Towles (Penguin Books: $19)
5. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Anchor: $18)
6. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)
7. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $19)
8. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks: $18)
9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage: $19)
10. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl (Random House Trade Paperbacks: $19)
Paperback nonfiction
1. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)
2. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21)
3. Sociopath by Patric Gagne (Simon & Schuster: $20)
4. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)
5. Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley (Picador: $18)
6. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)
7. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Vintage: $18)
8. Eve by Cat Bohannon (Vintage: $20)
9. There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks: $20)
10. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Knopf: $36)
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