1. Selwyn Pullan: Photographing Mid-Century West Coast Modernism by Kiriko Watanabe, Adele Weder, Donald Luxton and Barry Downs (Douglas & McIntyre)
2. The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me by Pico Iyer (Random House)
3. Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup by Mark Haskell Smith (Broadway)
4. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (Knopf Canada)
5. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (Harper)
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (Random House)
7. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Penguin)
8. La Roja: How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World by Jimmy Burns (Nation Books)
9. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford (Random House)
10. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
