{"id":323600,"date":"2025-10-22T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323600\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:38:10","slug":"if-i-built-a-town-and-the-place-of-tides-top-local-bestseller-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323600\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I Built a Town\u2019 and \u2018The Place of Tides\u2019 top local bestseller lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tFICTION<\/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. \u201cShadow Ticket,\u201d by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cThe Impossible Fortune,\u201d by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cHow to Read a Book,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Monica Wood (Mariner)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cKatabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition),\u201d by R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,\u201d by Kiran Desai (Hogarth)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cDory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe,\u201d by Abby Hanlon (Dial)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cOne Morning in Maine,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Robert McCloskey (Viking)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cMy Friends,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Fredrik Backman (Atria)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cThe Berry Pickers,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Amanda Peters (Catapult)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cMaine Characters,\u201d by Hannah Orenstein (Dutton)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cA Most Agreeable Murder,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Julia Seales (Random House)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cMate,\u201d by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cThe City and Its Uncertain Walls,\u201d by Haruki Murakami (Vintage)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cIntermezzo,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Sally Rooney (Picador)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cThe Thursday Murder Club,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Richard Osman (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cA Witch\u2019s Guide to Magical Innkeeping,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cBunny,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Mona Awad (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cThe History of Sound,\u201d by Ben Shattuck (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>NONFICTION<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardcover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cThe Place of Tides,\u201d by James Rebanks (Mariner)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cGood Things,\u201d by Samin Nosrat (Random House)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cArt Work: On the Creative Life,\u201d by Sally Mann (Abrams)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cAgainst the Machine,\u201d by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cLiving in the Present with John Prine,\u201d by Tom Piazza (W. W. Norton)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cProto: How One Ancient Language Went Global,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Laura Spinney (Bloomsbury)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cI Regret Almost Everything,\u201d by Keith McNally (Gallery)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cBaldwin: A Love Story,\u201d by Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cThe Let Them Theory,\u201d by Mel Robbins (Hay House)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201c107 Days,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Kamala Harris (Simon &amp; Schuster)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cThe Freedom Trail,\u201d by Paul J. Ledman (Next Steps)<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cWoodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life,\u201d by Gretchen Legler (Trinity University)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cThings That Disappear,\u201d by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions)<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cMeditations for Mortals,\u201d by Oliver Burkeman (Picador)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cI Was Told There\u2019d Be Cake,\u201d by Sloane Crosley (Riverhead)<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cPortland Maine: Connections Across Time,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Paul J. Ledman (Nextsteps)<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cIslands of Abandonment,\u201d by Cal Flyn (Penguin)<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cSay Nothing,\u201d by Patrick Radden Keefe (Anchor)<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cThe Unreality of Memory,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Elisa Gabbert (FSG)<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cThe Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>by Brad Fox (Astra House)<\/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":3,"featured_media":323601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-323600","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115417389763611199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}