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New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers
March 15, 2015
1. 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 offers suggestions for how they can do better; the subject of a PBS documentary.
2. Girl In A Band: A Memoir
by Kim Gordon

A memoir by a founding member of Sonic Youth.
3. Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by Marc Goodman

The world of cybercrime and corporate spying, and advice on protecting yourself.
4. Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

The host of The O'Reilly Factor recounts the death of Gen. George S. Patton in December 1945.
5. H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald

Overwhelmed by her father's death, a British woman decides to raise a goshawk, a bird that is fierce and notoriously difficult to tame.
6. Yes Please
by Amy Poehler

A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress.
7. Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
by David Axelrod

A memoir by the political consultant who became Barack Obama's campaign strategist and White House adviser.
8. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe

Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions, based in part on the author's website, xkcd.com.
9. Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)
by Bill Gifford

A review of the science of -- and myths about -- aging, and advice on how to live longer.
10. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder

A successful American hedge fund manager in Russia was expelled by kleptocrats who then seized his property.
11. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women's education who was shot by the Taliban and later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
12. Leaving Before the Rains Come
by Alexandra Fuller

A memoir of a marriage's collapse, by the author of  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.
13. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
by Lynsey Addario

A photojournalist who shared a Pulitzer for her work describes her experience covering wars.
14. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari

How Homo sapiens became Earth's dominant species.
15. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
by Lena Dunham

Essays, mostly humorous, from the creator and star of Girls.
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A version of this list appears in the March 15, 2015 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending February 28, 2015.


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