Nonfiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy: By J.D. Vance. A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of America’s white working class through his own childhood in the Rust Belt.

2. Killing the Rising Sun: By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.

3. Three Days in January: By Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney. Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.

4. The Magnolia Story: By Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines, with Mark Dagostino. The lives of the couple who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper.”

5. The Book of Joy: By the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams. A discussion between two spiritual leaders about how to find joy in the face of suffering.

6. Tears We Cannot Stop: By Michael Eric Dyson. A frank and searing discussion of race.

7. Hidden Figures:

By Margot Lee Shetterly. The black female mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie.

8. The Lost City of the Monkey God: By Douglas Preston. A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest.

9. Thank You for Being Late: By Thomas L. Friedman. How globalization, climate change and the accelerating pace of technology are reshaping the world.

10. When Breath Becomes Air: By Paul Kalanithi. A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.