HARDCOVER
FICTION
1. Commonwealth Ann Patchett Harper
2. The Trespasser Tana French Viking
3. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday
4. Nutshell Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese
5. The Rain in Portugal Billy Collins Random House
6. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Viking
7. A Great Reckoning Louise Penny Minotaur
8. Razor Girl Carl Hiaasen Knopf
9. The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware Gallery/Scout Press
10. Two by Two Nicholas Sparks Grand Central
NONFICTION
1. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen S&S
2. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper
3. Killing the Rising Sun Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard Holt
4. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Greystone Books
5. Hero of the Empire Candice Millard Doubleday
6. Designing Your Life Bill Burnett & Dave Evans Knopf
7. Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football Michael Holley Hachette
8. My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg S&S
9. Being Mortal Atul Gawande Metropolitan
10. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo Amy Schumer Gallery
PAPERBACK
FICTION
1. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead
2. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
3. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Europa Editions
4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
5. Fates and Furies Lauren Groff Riverhead
6. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Press
7. The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman Scribner
8. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George Broadway
9. The Secret Chord Geraldine Brooks Penguin
10. The Best American Short Stories 2016 Junot Diaz & Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) Mariner
NONFICTION
1. The Witches Stacy Schiff Back Bay
2. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard Liveright
3. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2017 Old Farmer’s Almanac
4. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Penguin
5. Yuge! G.B. Trudeau Andrews McMeel
6. The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery Atria
7. The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape James Rebanks Flatiron
8. M Train Patti Smith Vintage
9. The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf Vintage
10. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, Oct. 9.
Sonia Rao can be reached at sonia.rao@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @misssoniarao.