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By Sonia Rao
Globe Correspondent

HARDCOVER

FICTION

1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday

2. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner

3. Before the Fall Noah Hawley Grand Central

4. The Girls Emma Cline Random House

5. Surrender, New York Caleb Carr Random House

6. Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty Flatiron

7. The Nest Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Ecco

8. The Nightingale Kristin Hannah St. Martin’s

9. Heroes of the Frontier Dave Eggers Knopf

10. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Knopf

NONFICTION

1. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo Amy Schumer Gallery

2. When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Random House

3. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper

4. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau

5. Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter Grand Central

6. Tribe Sebastian Junger Twelve

7. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art Sebastian Smee Random House

8. Being Mortal Atul Gawande Metropolitan

9. American Heiress Jeffrey Toobin Doubleday

10. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo

Ten Speed Press

PAPERBACK

FICTION

1. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead

2. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press

3. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Grove Press

4. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Europa Editions

5. After You Jojo Moyes Penguin

6. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press

7. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George Broadway

8. A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara Anchor

9. In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware Gallery/Scout Press

10. The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Anchor

NONFICTION

1. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown Penguin

2. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow Penguin

3. M Train Patti Smith Vintage

4. The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery Atria

5. H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald Grove Press

6. Dead Wake Erik Larson Broadway

7. Barbarian Days William Finnegan Penguin

8. Yuge! G.B. Trudeau Andrews McMeel

9. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau

10. My Life on the Road Gloria Steinem Random House

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, August 28.

Sonia Rao can be reached at sonia.rao@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @misssoniarao.