1. Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg, Penguin
2. Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan, Penguin
3. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Penguin
4. You Are a Badass, by Jen Sincero, Running Press
5. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson, Broadway,
6. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough, S&S
7. Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow, Penguin
8. H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald, Grove Press
9. Sully, by Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow, Morrow
10. The Oregon Trail, by Rinker Buck, S&S
11. Primates of Park Avenue, by Wednesday Martin, S&S
12. The Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery, Atria
13. Sick in the Head, by Judd Apatow, Random House
14. Contagious, by Jonah Berger, S&S
15. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence, by Harvard Business School Press
On the Rise:
18. Known and Strange Things, by Teju Cole, Random House
A dazzling first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City.
