1. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro, Knopf
2. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Knopf
3. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
4. American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, by Michelle Obama, Crown
5. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, by Anna Quindlen, Random House
6. Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
7. Drift, by Rachel Maddow, Crown
8. Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley, Harper
9. It Worked For Me, by Colin Powell, Tony Koltz, Harper
10. I Am a Pole (and So Can You!), by Stephen Colbert, Paul Hildebrandt (Illus.), Grand Central
11. Quiet, by Susan Cain, Crown
12. Are You My Mother?, by Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
13. The Swerve, by Stephen J. Greenblatt, Norton
14. This Is How, by Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's
15. Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright, Harper
