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. Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow
7. The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore, Vintage
8. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor
9. The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan, Scribner
10. What the Dog Knows, by Cat Warren, Touchstone
11. Orange Is the New Black, by Piper Kerman, Spiegel & Grau
12. A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel, Morrow
13. The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Picador USA
14. In the Kingdom of Ice, by Hampton Sides, Anchor
15. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
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17. Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA by Morten Storm, Tim Lister, Grove Press
Storm's book is a captivating, utterly unique, real-life espionage tale.
