1. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough, S&S
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
3. The Road to Character, by David Brooks, Random House
4. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson, Crown
5. H Is for Hawk, by Helen MacDonald, Grove Press
6. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
7. Missoula, by Jon Krakauer, Doubleday
8. Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs, by Sally Mann, Little Brown
9. On the Move, by Oliver Sacks, Knopf
10. Very Good Lives, by J.K. Rowling, Little Brown
11. And the Good News Is..., by Dana Perino, Twelve
12. A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope, by Tom Brokaw, Random House
13. Clinton Cash, by Peter Schweizer, Harper
14. Yes Please, by Amy Poehler, Dey Street
15. It's a Long Story, by Willie Nelson, Little Brown
On the Rise:
19. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789, by Joseph J. Ellis, Knopf
Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Ellis tells the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.