Using the Library | Catalog/Account | eContent |  Research | Services | Events | About Us New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers October 4, 2015 1. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling More personal essays from the comedian and actress. 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 Art of Memoir by Mary Karr The author of The Liars' Club, Cherry and Lit offers instruction in memoir-writing and discusses her favorite writers' work. 4. Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton with Sarah Tomlinson Bipolar disorder drove a former Olympic runner to become a high-priced Las Vegas escort until she received treatment. 5. Killing the Messenger: The Right-wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack your Government by David Brock A former right-wing operative describes his transformation and passionately defends Hillary Clinton. 6. 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. 7. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The story of the bicycle mechanics from Ohio who ushered in the age of flight.   8. 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. 9. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber A comic turned pastor documents encounters with grace and finding divinity in unlikely places. 10. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg The comedian enlists a sociologist to help him understand today's dating scene. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde The Pretenders' frontwoman revisits four decades in the music industry. 14. My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz The U.F.C. women's bantamweight champion's struggles to succeed. 15. The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities by Stephen G. Breyer The Supreme Court justice explores the work of the court in an interconnected world. 16. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel A memoir and guide to creative living by the singer-songwriter.  © 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 October 4, 2015 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending September 19, 2015. Subscribe to other newsletters | View newsletter archives | Readers' Club on library website