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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
April 17, 2016
1. When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi

A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
2. Lust & Wonder
by Augusten Burroughs

Burroughs's post-rehab love life in 1990s New York City, and its eventual happy ending.
3. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by Carlo Rovelli

An introduction to modern physics.
4. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
by Peggy Orenstein

Interviews with more than 70 teenagers shed light on their experience of sexuality.
5. Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A meditation on race in America; winner of the National Book Award.
6. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by Jane Mayer

An account of how the Koch brothers and other super-wealthy donors deployed their money to change American politics.
7. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg

The science of productivity, from the author of The Power of Habit.
8. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary who Became an American Hero
by Timothy Egan

The life of Thomas Francis Meagher, an Irish revolutionary who fled to America and became the general of New York's Irish Brigade during the Civil War.
9. 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.
10. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
by Adam Hochschild

Americans who fought in and wrote about the Spanish Civil War.
11. Back from the Dead
by Bill Walton

An autobiography of the former basketball player (and Deadhead), who has struggled with injuries.
12. The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry
by John Feinstein

A sportswriter's account of three famous basketball coaches and their rivalry.
13. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond

How poor people repeatedly lose their homes while landlords profit.
14. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
by Adam Grant

A Wharton School professor argues that innovators are made, not born, and offers suggestions for how to become one.
15. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
by Nancy Jo Sales

How social media has changed the way girls grow up.
16. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
by Bill Bryson

An American expatriate travels around his adopted country, Britain.
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A version of this list appears in the April 17, 2016 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending April 2, 2016.


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