THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
By Daniel Kahneman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux • ISBN: 9780374533557
A winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal lives and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
GRIT
By Angela Duckworth
Publisher: Scribner • ISBN: 9781501111105
A psychologist says passion and perseverance are the keys to success.
THING EXPLAINER
By Randall Munroe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • ISBN: 9780544668256
Cells, elevators, smartphones, nuclear reactors and more are demystified with simply annotated blueprints. From the author of "What If?"
SPEAKING AMERICAN
By Josh Katz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • ISBN: 9780544703391
The creator of the New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.
I AM MALALA
By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Publisher: Little, Brown • ISBN: 9780316322423
The experience of the young Pakistani advocate for women’s education who was shot by the Taliban and later won the Nobel Peace Prize. Originally published in 2013.
ON WRITING
By Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner • ISBN: 9781439156810
A memoir that is a master class on the writer's craft.
WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION
By Cathy O'Neil
Publisher: Crown • ISBN: 9780553418811
How decisions that impact our lives are made by algorithms instead of people.
BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2016
By edited Rachel Kushner
Publisher: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • ISBN: 9780544812116
A wide-ranging anthology selected by high school students.
HOW NOT TO BE WRONG
By Jordan Ellenberg
Publisher: Penguin • ISBN: 9780143127536
A mathematician shows how his discipline helps us think about problems of politics, medicine and commerce.
OTHER-WORDLY
By Yee-Lum Mak
Publisher: Chronicle • ISBN: 9781452125343
From the blog of the same name, 64 intriguing words from a dozen languages.