Using the Library | Catalog/Account | eContent |  Research | Services | Events | About Us New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers September 27, 2015 1. 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. 2. Plunder and Deceit: Big Government's Exploitation of Young People and the Future by Mark R. Levin The talk-radio host urges young Americans to resist the statist masterminds who, he says, are burdening them with debt and inferior education. 3. Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America by Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney The former Vice President and his daughter chart their vision for a formidable future America. 4. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.   5. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 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. 6. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today's dating scene. 7. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde The Pretenders' frontwoman revisits four decades in the music industry. 8. Accidental Saints: Confessions from a Religious (But Not So Spiritual) Life by Nadia Bolz-Weber A comic turned pastor documents encounters with grace and finding divinity in unlikely places. 9. My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz The U.F.C. women's bantamweight champion's struggles to succeed. 10. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman A science writer argues that conditions like autism are natural human variations with some adaptive elements, and surveys the history of autism and the current spike in diagnoses.  11. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson The last voyage of the Lusitania, the passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo in 1915. 12. The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools? by Dale Russakoff What happened when Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie and Cory Booker took on school reform in Newark, N.J. 13. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder A specialist in Eastern European history offers a new interpretation of the Holocaust centering on ecological crisis and the competition over resources. 14. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks A memoir by the neurologist and writer, the author of Awakenings and many other books, who died in August. 15. The Road to Character by David Brooks The Times columnist extols personal virtues like kindness and honesty in a materialistic age.  © 2015 All rights reserved by New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.   A version of this list appears in the September 27, 2015 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 12, 2015. Subscribe to other newsletters | View newsletter archives | Readers' Club on library website