1. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
2. I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, Little Brown
3. Double Down: Game Change 2012, by Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Penguin Press
4. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S
5. Things That Matter, by Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum
6. Stitches, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
7. Killing Jesus, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
8. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday
9. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book, by Diane Muldrow, Golden Books
10. The Death of Santini, by Pat Conroy, Nan A. Talese
11. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, by Ann Patchett, Harper
12. The Reason I Jump, by Naoki Higashida, Random House
13. The Men Who United the States, by Simon Winchester, Harper
14. I Could Pee on This, by Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle
15. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Viking
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19. Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition, by Ben Schott, Blue Rider
A unique new dictionary, complete with newly coined words that explore the idiosyncrasies of life as only the German language can.