Nonfiction

1. Plunder and Deceit: By Mark R. Levin. The talkradio host urges young Americans to resist the statist masterminds who, he says, are burdening them with debt and inferior education. 2. Between the World and Me: By Ta-Nehisi Coates. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story by the national correspondent of the Atlantic, framed as a letter to his teenage son. 3. The Wright Brothers: By David McCullough. The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight. 4. Modern Romance: By Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg. The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today’s dating scene. 5. My Fight/Your Fight: By Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz. The UFC women’s bantamweight champion and Olympic judo medalist describes her struggles to succeed. 6. Being Mortal: By Atul Gawande. The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and how they can do better. 7. Dead Wake: By Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915. 8. Down the Rabbit Hole: By Holly Madison. Life inside the Playboy Mansion, by a former bunny and girlfriend of Hugh Hefner. 9. The Road to Character: By David Brooks. The New York Times columnist extols personal virtues like kindness and honesty in a materialistic age. 10. Sick in the Head: By Judd Apatow. Thirty years’ worth of the filmmaker’s interviews with comedians.

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