1. That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum, FSG
2. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson, Crown
3. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
4. Go the F**k to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.), Akashic
5. In My Time, by Dick Cheney, Threshold Editions
6. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, by Alexandra Fuller, Penguin Press
7. Bossypants, by Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books
8. 1493, by Charles C. Mann, Knopf
9. The Greater Journey, by David McCullough, S&S
10. The Eighty-Dollar Champion, by Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine
11. Arguably, by Christopher Hitchens, Twelve
12. A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard, S&S
13. Just My Type, by Simon Garfield, Gotham
14. Prime Time, by Jane Fonda, Random House
15. Turn Right at Machu Picchu, by Mark Adams, Dutton
ON THE RISE:
16. What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly
A brilliant nonfiction book about war by the author of Matterhorn, the 2011 Indies' Choice Award for Adult Debut.
