1. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Penguin
2. I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, Back Bay
3. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Vintage
4. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay
5. How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg, Penguin
6. The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan, Scribner
7. What the Dog Knows, by Cat Warren, Touchstone
8. In the Kingdom of Ice, by Hampton Sides, Anchor
9. The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Picador USA
10. A Spy Among Friends, by Ben Macintyre, Broadway
11. Orange Is the New Black, by Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau
12. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor
13. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence, by Harvard Business School Press
14. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
15. A Deadly Wandering, Matt Richtel, Morrow