1. Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf
2. I Could Pee on This, by Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle
3. The Drunken Botanist, by Amy Stewart, Algonquin
4. Help, Thanks, Wow, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
5. My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor, Knopf
6. Salt Sugar Fat, by Michael Moss, Random House
7. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo, Random House
8. The FastDiet, by Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer, Atria
9. Life Code, by Phillip C. McGraw, Bird Street Books
10. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
11. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, by Denise Kiernan, Touchstone
12. Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, by Lynne Olson, Random House
13. Sum It Up, by Pat Summitt, Sally Jenkins, Crown Archetype
14. Daring Greatly, by Brene Brown, Gotham
15. Detroit: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff, Penguin Press
On the Rise:
19. Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala, Knopf
Deraniyagala's unforgettable memoir of the devastating tsunami in Sri Lanka in December 2004.