| 1 | 1 | THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster.) The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight; by the author of “1776” and “The Greater Journey.” | ||
| 2 | 2 | BEING MORTAL, by Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/ Holt.) The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life, and how they can do better; the subject of a PBS documentary. | ||
| 3 | 3 | ELON MUSK, by Ashlee Vance. (Ecco/HarperCollins.) A technology writer follows Musk’s life from his difficult South African childhood to his involvement in Internet start-ups like the rocket company SpaceX, the electric-car company Tesla and the solar power installation company Solar City. | ||
| 4 | 10 | THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot. (Crown.) A woman's cancer cells were cultured without her permission in 1951. | ||
| 5 | 7 | THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) The winner of a Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions. | ||
| 6 | 5 | DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown.) How disadvantages can work in our favor, from the author of "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers". | ||
| 7 | 9 | QUIET, by Susan Cain. (Crown.) Introverts -- approximately one-third of the population -- are undervalued in American society. | ||
| 8 | 8 | THE POWER OF HABIT, by Charles Duhigg. (Random House.) An examination of the science behind habits, how we form them and break them. | ||
| 9 | 6 | WHAT IF?, by Randall Munroe. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions, based in part on the author’s website, xkcd.com. | ||
| 10 | HOW NOT TO BE WRONG, by Jordan Ellenberg. (Penguin Press.) A mathematician shows how his discipline helps us think about problems of politics, medicine and commerce. | |||
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