HARDCOVER
FICTION
1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday
2. Moonglow Michael Chabon Harper
3. Commonwealth Ann Patchett Harper
4. Swing Time Zadie Smith Penguin Press
5. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner
6. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Viking
7. The Whistler John Grisham Doubleday
8. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Ballantine
9. Night School Lee Child Delacorte
10. Envelope Poems Emily Dickinson New Directions
NONFICTION
1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper
2. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Greystone Books
3. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen S&S
4. Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman FSG
5. Our Revolution Bernie Sanders Thomas Dunne Books
6. Upstream Mary Oliver Penguin Press
7. Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer & et al. Workman
8. Born a Crime Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau
9. Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football Michael Holley Hachette
10. Cooking for Jeffrey Ina Garten Clarkson Potter
PAPERBACK
FICTION
1. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
2. The Sellout Paul Beatty Picador USA
3. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
4. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Press
5. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Europa Editions
6. My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout Random House
7. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead
8. The Best American Short Stories 2016 Junot Diaz & Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) Mariner
9. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George Broadway
10. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel
NONFICTION
1. The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson Anchor
2. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Penguin
3. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Penguin
4. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2017 Old Farmer’s Almanac
5. The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery Atria
6. Yuge! G.B. Trudeau Andrews McMeel
7. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor
8. The Mindfulness Coloring Book Emma Farrarons Experiment
9. The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf Vintage
10. H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald Grove Press
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, December 4.
Sonia Rao can be reached at sonia.rao@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @misssoniarao.
