Nonfiction

1. Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile. The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter recounts difficulties during her formative years and her hard-won successes.

2. Finding Freedom by Erin French. A memoir by the chef and owner of the Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine.

3. Broken by Jenny Lawson. The humorist maps out her mental and physical health journey.

4. Beautiful Things by Hunter Biden. The lawyer and artist, who is the son of the president, details tragedies within his family and his path to sobriety. 5. The Light of Days by Judy Batalion. How Jewish women in Poland turned Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis and helped build systems of underground bunkers.

6. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson. How Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues invented CRISPR, a tool that can edit DNA. 7. The God Equation by Michio Kaku. The theoretical physicist explains the controversy around the synthesis of the theory of relativity and quantum theory.

8. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the past 35 years.

9. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

10. This Is the Fire by Don Lemon. The CNN host looks at the impact of racism on his life and prescribes ways to address systemic flaws in America.