1. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham, Random House
2. Help, Thanks, Wow, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
3. Barefoot Contessa Foolproof, by Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter
4. I Could Pee on This, by Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle
5. Killing Kennedy, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
6. America Again, by Stephen Colbert, Grand Central
7. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, by William Manchester, Paul Reid, Little Brown
8. Waging Heavy Peace, by Neil Young, Blue Rider
9. Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon, Scribner
10. Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
11. The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver, Penguin Press
12. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, by Deb Perelman, Knopf
13. Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks, Knopf
14. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Knopf
15. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo, Random House
ON THE RISE:
17. Dogfight, by Calvin Trillin, Random House
Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the 2012 presidential election campaign in his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse.
