Nonfiction

1. 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. 2. THE NAME OF GOD IS MERCY, by Pope Francis with Andrea Tornielli. In a conversation with a Vatican reporter, the pontiff explores the cornerstone of his faith. 3. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America; winner of the National Book Award. 4. THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING, by Bill Bryson. An American expatriate travels around his adopted country, Britain. 5. TURNING THE TABLES, by Teresa Giudice and K. C. Baker. One of the Real Housewives of New Jersey looks back on her life, including time in prison following a federal fraud conviction. 6. DARK MONEY, by Jane Mayer. An account of how the Koch brothers and other super-wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics. 7. ORIGINALS, by Adam Grant. A Wharton School professor argues that innovators are made, not born, and offers suggestions for how to become one. 8. IN OTHER WORDS, by Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Goldstein. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist describes learning to write in Italian. 9. KILLING REAGAN, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The host of The O’Reilly Factor recounts the events surrounding the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981. 10. THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. The war against the Barbary pirates in 1801.