1. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Knopf
2. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
3. Darth Vader and Son, by Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle
4. Imagine, by Jonah Lehrer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
5. The Amateur, by Edward Klein, Regnery
6. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, by Anna Quindlen, Random House
7. Quiet, by Susan Cain, Crown
8. Let's Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
9. Killing Lincoln, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
10. The Presidents Club, by Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy, S&S
11. Go the F**k to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic
12. Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, S&S
13. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro, Knopf
14. Barack Obama: The Story, by David Maraniss, S&S
15. Drift, by Rachel Maddow, Crown
ON THE RISE:
20. Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety, by Daniel Smith, S&S
Smith's honest and witty memoir of living with the disease of anxiety is a July Indie Next List Great Read.