HARDCOVER
FICTION
1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday
2. Commonwealth Ann Patchett Harper
3. The Whistler John Grisham Doubleday
4. Swing Time Zadie Smith Penguin Press
5. Night School Lee Child Delacorte
6. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Viking
7. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Ballantine
8. News of the World Paulette Jiles Morrow
9. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner
10. The Trespasser Tana French Viking
NONFICTION
1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper
2. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In Bernie Sanders Thomas Dunne Books
3. Upstream Mary Oliver Penguin Press
4. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Greystone Books
5. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen S&S
6. Cooking for Jeffrey Ina Garten Clarkson Potter
7. Settle for More Megyn Kelly Harper
8. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau
9. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau
10. Strangers in Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild The New Press
PAPERBACK
FICTION
1. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
2. The Sellout Paul Beatty Picador USA
3. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead
4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
5. My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout Random House
6. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Press
7. The Best American Short Stories 2016 Junot Diaz & Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) Mariner
8. The Muralist B.A. Shapiro Algonquin
9. In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware Gallery/Scout Press
10. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Europa Editions
NONFICTION
1. The Road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson Anchor
2. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2017 Old Farmer’s Almanac
3. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Penguin
4. The Witches Stacy Schiff Back Bay
5. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Penguin
6. The Shepherd’s Life James Rebanks Flatiron
7. Yuge! G.B. Trudeau Andrews McMeel
8. The Road to Character David Brooks Random House
9. The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf Vintage
10. March: Book Three John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell (Illus.) Top Shelf Productions
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, November 20.
Sonia Rao can be reached at sonia.rao@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @misssoniarao.
