Nonfiction

1. Being Mortal: 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.

2. Yes Please: By Amy Poehler. A humorous miscellany from the comedian and actress, an “SNL” alumna and the star of “Parks and Recreation.”

3. Killing Patton: 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.

4. America’s Bitter Pill: By Steven Brill. The issues in American health care and health-care reform and recent developments including the drafting and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, by the journalist, editor and lawyer.

5. What If?: By Randall Munroe. Scientific (but often humorous) answers to hypothetical questions, based in part on the author’s website, xkcd.com.

6. Not That Kind of Girl: By Lena Dunham. Essays, mostly humorous, from the creator and star of “Girls.”

7. 41: By George W. Bush. The former president’s portrait of his father, George H.W. Bush.

8. Unbroken: By Laura Hillenbrand. An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his plane went down over the Pacific; the basis for the movie.

9. It Was Me All Along: By Andie Mitchell. A memoir about the author’s long struggle with, and eventual victory over, obesity.

10. Digital Destiny: By Shawn DuBravac. An economist argues that technology will transform our daily lives and solve many of mankind’s problems.