1. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough, S&S
2. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson, Broadway
3. Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan, Penguin
4. H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald, Grove Press
5. Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow, Penguin
6. You Are a Badass, by Jen Sincero, Running Press
7. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Penguin
8. Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, by Judd Apatow, Random House (Debut)
9. When to Rob a Bank, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow
10. Contagious, by Jonah Berger, S&S
11. Killing Kennedy, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, St. Martin's Griffin
12. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor
13. The Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery, Atria
14. The Quartet, by Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage
15. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence, by Harvard Business School Press
On the Rise:
17. Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir, by Wednesday Martin, S&S
Martin's memoir lifts a veil on the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood.
