{"id":482530,"date":"2025-10-08T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:54:17","slug":"if-i-built-a-town-and-mother-mary-comes-to-me-top-local-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482530\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I Built a Town\u2019 and \u2018Mother Mary Comes to Me\u2019 top local lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FICTION<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardcover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cIf I Built a Town,\u201d by Chris Van Dusen (Rocky Pond)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cHeart the Lover,\u201d by Lily King (Grove)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,\u201d by Kiran Desai (Hogarth)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cWhat We Can Know,\u201d by Ian McEwan (Knopf)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cThe Impossible Fortune,\u201d by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cHow to Read a Book,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Monica Wood (Mariner)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cWild Dark Shore,\u201d by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cAtmosphere: A Love Story,\u201d by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cGoodnight Maine,\u201d by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cThe Circus Ship,\u201d by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cMaine Characters,\u201d by Hannah Orenstein (Dutton)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cI Who Have Never Known Men,\u201d by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cThe Berry Pickers,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Amanda Peters (Catapult)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cA Most Agreeable Murder,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Julia Seales (Random House)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cThe Frozen River,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cThe Seas,\u201d by Samantha Hunt (Tin House)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cA Witch\u2019s Guide to Magical Innkeeping,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cTell Me Everything,\u201d by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cBunny,\u201d by Mona Awad (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cGraveyard Shift,\u201d by M. 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Rio (Flatiron)<\/p>\n<p>NONFICTION<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardcover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cMother Mary Comes to Me,\u201d by Arundhati Roy (Scribner)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cThe Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,\u201d by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Scribner)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201c107 Days,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Kamala Harris (Simon &amp; Schuster)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,\u201d by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cAbundance,\u201d by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press \/ Simon &amp; Schuster)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cThe Great Auk,\u201d by Tim Birkhead (Bloomsbury SIGMA)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cThe Creative Act,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Rick Rubin (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cThe Fort Bragg Cartel,\u201d by Seth Harp (Viking)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cA Truce That Is Not Peace,\u201d by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cArt Work: On the Creative Life,\u201d by Sally Mann (Abrams)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cAutocracy, Inc.\u201d by Anne Applebaum (Vintage)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cWhy I Love Horror,\u201d by Becky Siegel Spratford (S&amp;S\/Saga)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cI Was Told There\u2019d Be Cake,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cWhy Machines Learn,\u201d by Anil Ananthaswamy (Dutton)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cDowneast,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Gigi Georges (Harper)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cLiving on Earth,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Picador)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cThe Secrets of the Octopus,\u201d by Sy Montgomery (National Geographic)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cOn Tyranny,\u201d by Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cDog Songs,\u201d by Mary Oliver (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cTake Me With You,\u201d by Andrea Gibson (Plume)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Longfellow Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FICTION Hardcover 1. \u201cIf I Built a Town,\u201d by Chris Van Dusen (Rocky Pond) 2. \u201cHeart the Lover,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-482530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115337708871120460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}