Using the Library | Catalog/Account | eContent |  Research | Services | Events | About Us New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers September 13, 2015 1. 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. 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. 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. 5. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today's dating scene. 6. You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost) by Felicia Day A memoir of rising to stardom in the web video world. 7. 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. 8. Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman A science writer argues for the concept of neurodiversity, the idea that conditions like autism are natural human variations with some adaptive elements, and surveys the history of autism for what it can tell us about the current spike in diagonses. 9. The Road to Character by David Brooks The Times columnist extols personal virtues like kindness and honesty in a materialistic age. 10. A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter At 90, the 39th president (and Nobel Prize winner) reflects on his private and public life. 11. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty A biography of the journalist and novelist Joan Didion. 12. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance Musk's life from his difficult South African childhood to his involvement in Internet start-ups like SpaceX. 13. Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow Thirty years' worth of the filmmaker's interviews with comedians. 14. The Oregon Trail: An American Journey by Rinker Buck The author and his brother travel 2,000 miles by mule and wagon from Missouri to Oregon. 15. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan A surfing chronical and memoir by a New Yorker writer.  © 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 13, 2015 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending August 29, 2015. Subscribe to other newsletters | View newsletter archives | Readers' Club on library website