1. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Penguin
2. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Vintage
3. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
4. American Sniper, by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Morrow
5. 10% Happier, by Dan Harris, Dey Street
6. The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, Random House
7. The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Picador USA
8. Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan, S&S
9. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor
10. Uganda Be Kidding Me, by Chelsea Handler, Grand Central
11. The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku, Anchor
12. The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver, Penguin
13. Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial
14. The Heart of Everything That Is, by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin, S&S
15. How to Love, by Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press
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17. This Idea Must Die, by John Brockman, Harper Perennial
Brockman brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?