Hardcover fiction
1. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a painful past.
2. Vigil by George Saunders (Random House: $28) A spirit guide must shepherd the soul of a dying, unrepentant oil tycoon into the afterlife as he confronts his legacy of corporate greed all while supernatural visitors demand a reckoning.
3. Brawler by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books: $29) A collection of short stories tackling the relentless battle between humanity’s dark and light angels.
4. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28) A woman reflects on a youthful love triangle and its consequences.
5. Kin by Tayari Jones (Knopf: $32) The bond between two lifelong friends in the South is tested as they take different paths in life.
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth: $32) The fates of two young people intersect and diverge across continents and years.
7. Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy (Ballantine Books: $30) A teenager embarks on a secret relationship with her teacher.
8. Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue (Riverhead Books: $30) A woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-U.S. border wars.
9. Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $28) A family comes undone in a small coastal town.
10. This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman (The Dial Press: $29) A portrait of an American family growing up and growing old.
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Hardcover nonfiction
1. A World Appears by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press: $32) An exploration of consciousness and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
2. Young Man in a Hurry by Gavin Newsom (Penguin Press: $30) The California governor tells his origin story.
3. Strangers by Belle Burden (The Dial Press: $30) A woman explores her marriage, its end and the man she thought she knew.
4. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books: $28) The true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea.
5. Lessons From Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing: $13) A guide to channeling feline wisdom in the face of authoritarian nonsense.
6. You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate (Little, Brown & Co.: $32) The actor opens up about her tumultuous childhood, her five-decade-long career and the MS diagnosis that upended it all.
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 values.
8. Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff (Mariner Books: $30) An account of the Palisades fire from a journalist who reported on the ground as his hometown was destroyed.
9. We the Women by Norah O’Donnell and Kate Andersen Brower (Ballantine Books: $35) A portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom.
10. Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf: $35) A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim.
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Paperback fiction
1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Ballantine: $22)
2. Theo of Golden by Allen Levi (Atria Books: $20)
3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Penguin Books: $18)
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco: $20)
6. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Vintage: $19)
7. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books: $19)
8. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (Riverhead Books: $19)
9. Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (Carina Press: $19)
10. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Ace: $20)
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Paperback nonfiction
1. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (Vintage: $21)
2. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $14)
3. Duct Tape and White Lies by Emily Lampkin (Regalo Press: $22)
4. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21)
5. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster: $20)
6. The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin: $19)
7. Straight from the Grapevine by Rachel Zaslansky Sheer and Lori Zuker Briller (Post Hill Press: $19)
8. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America: $12.50)
9. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions: $22)
10. Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch (Tarcher: $20)
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