1. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi, Random House
2. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau
3. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
4. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday
5. Spark Joy by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
6. Dark Money by Jane Mayer, Doubleday
7. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf - Debut
8. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
9. Gratitude by Oliver Sacks, Knopf
10. Originals by Adam Grant, Viking
11. The Name of God Is Mercy by Pope Francis, Random House
12. H Is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald, Grove Press
13. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Penguin Press
14. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger, Sentinel
15. Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin
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21. And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel, S&S
NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting account of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close.