HARDCOVER
FICTION
1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday
2. Commonwealth Ann Patchett Harper
3. Moonglow Michael Chabon Harper
4. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Viking
5. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner
6. The Whistler John Grisham Doubleday
7. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Ballantine
8. Swing Time Zadie Smith Penguin Press
9. Envelope Poems Emily Dickinson New Directions
10. News of the World Paulette Jiles Morrow
NONFICTION
1. The Undoing Project Michael Lewis Norton
2. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper
3. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen S&S
4. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Greystone Books
5. Born a Crime Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau
6. Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer & et al. Workman
7. Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman FSG
8. Our Revolution Bernie Sanders Thomas Dunne Books
9. Upstream Mary Oliver Penguin Press
10. Cooking for Jeffrey Ina Garten Clarkson Potter
PAPERBACK
FICTION
1. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
2. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Press
3. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
4. My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout Random House
5. The Sellout Paul Beatty Picador USA
6. The Best American Short Stories 2016 Junot Diaz & Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) Mariner
7. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Europa Editions
8. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George Broadway
9. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead
10. The Vegetarian Han Kang Hogarth
NONFICTION
1. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Penguin
2. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Penguin
3. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2017: Special Anniversary Edition Old Farmer’s Almanac
4. The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson Anchor
5. The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery Atria
6. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor
7. The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf Vintage
8. Yuge! G.B. Trudeau Andrews McMeel
9. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard Liveright
10. The Road to Character David Brooks Random House
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, December 18.
Sonia Rao can be reached at sonia.rao@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @misssoniarao.
