Hardcover fiction
1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
2. The city and its uncertain walls by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $35) The acclaimed writer returns with a love story and an ode to books and the libraries that house them.
3. Interlude by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love.
4. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a teenage girl disappears from her summer camp in the Adirondacks.
5. The gray wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur: $30) The 19th mystery in the Armand Gamache series.
6. On all fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A woman turns her domestic life upside down in this irreverent and tender novel.
7. Little things like these by Claire Keegan (Grove Press: $20) During the Christmas period of 1985, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a disturbing discovery.
8. Waiting by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) LAPD Det. Renée Ballard tracks down a serial rapist whose trail has become non-existent.
9. Playground by Richard Powers (WW Norton & Co.: $30) The novel set in the Pacific Ocean explores one of the last wild places we have yet to colonize.
10. Tell me everything by Elizabeth Strout (Random House: $30) A return to the town of Crosby, Maine, and its colorful characters.
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Hardcover nonfiction
1. Saskatoon berry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner: $20) The author of “Braiding Sweetgrass” about gratitude, reciprocity and community, and lessons from the natural world.
2. Revenge of the tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co.: $32) The bestselling author reframes the lessons of his first book 25 years later.
3. Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner: $30) In the journalist’s provocative new work, Eve Babitz’s diary-like letters provide a window into fellow literary titan Joan Didion.
4. The message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World: $30) The National Book Award winner travels to three sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell, and the stories we don’t tell, shape our realities.
5. Genesis by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie (Little, Brown & Co.: $30) In his latest book, the late statesman teams up with two technologists to explore the challenges of AI.
6. Expensive by Cher (Dey Street Books: $36) The superstar reveals her true story in the first of a two-part memoir.
7. Be ready when luck hits by Ina Garten (Crown: $34) The Barefoot Contessa shares the story of her rise in the food world.
8. Nexus by Yuval by Noah Harari (Random House: $35) How the flow of information has shaped us and our world throughout the centuries.
9. Under the truck by Josh Brolin (Harper: $30) The actor recounts his unconventional childhood and career.
10. The Palace of Memory by Nate DiMeo (Random House: $33) A collection of offbeat tales from American history.
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Pocket fiction
1. The frozen river by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage: $18)
2. Copperhead Demon by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Vivace: $22)
3. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press: $17)
4. The vegetarian by Han Kang (Hogarth: $17)
5. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage: $19)
6. My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante (Editions Europa: $17)
7. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin: $18)
8. The best American news stories 2024 by Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (editors) (Mariner Books: $20)
9. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperback: $18)
10. The berry pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult: $18)
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Paperback nonfiction
1. On tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)
2. The art thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)
3. The chronicles of backyard birds by Amy Tan (button: $35)
4. Don’t say anything by Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage: $20)
5. The Pirate’s Wife by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos (Hanover Square Press: $22)
6. The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion (Vintage: $18)
7. Green light by Matthew McConaughey (Crown: $20)
8. The Los Angeles Eaters’ Guide by Eater (Abrams Image: $20)
9. Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $18)
10. Crying at H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Vintage: $17)
