HARDCOVER
FICTION
1. Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders Random House
2. Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman Norton
3. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles Viking
4. A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline Morrow
5. Exit West Mohsin Hamid Riverhead
6. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Doubleday
7. News of the World Paulette Jiles Morrow
8. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner
9. Celine Peter Heller Knopf
10. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Ballantine
NONFICTION
1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper
2. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel Knopf
3. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben Greystone Books
4. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Knopf
5. The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Avery
6. The Little Book of Hygge Meik Wiking Morrow
7. South and West: From a Notebook Joan Didion Knopf
8. Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman FSG
9. Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari Harper
10. Born a Crime Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau
PAPERBACK
FICTION
1. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
2. Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly Ballantine
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. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel
6. Britt-Marie Was Here Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press
7. The Summer Before the War Helen Simonson Random House
8. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Anchor
9. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven Chris Cleave S&S
10. Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty Berkley
NONFICTION
1. Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly Morrow
2. Why We March Artisan Publishers
3. Why I March Abrams Image
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder Tim Duggan Books
5. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor
6. Lab Girl Hope Jahren Vintage
7. The Trump Survival Guide Gene Stone Dey Street
8. The Zookeeper’s Wife Diane Ackerman Norton
9. I Am Not Your Negro James Baldwin, Raoul Peck Vintage
10. Evicted Matthew Desmond Broadway
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound for the week ended Sunday, March 12.
Alex Frandsen can be reached at alexander.frandsen@globe.com.
