In Search of Captain Zero
by Allan C. Weisbecker | 
Barbarian Days
by William Finnegan | 
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi | 
The Bill from My Father
by Bernard Cooper | 
Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
by Gene Wilder | 
Kook
by Peter Heller | 
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom | 
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah | 
Educated
by Tara Westover | 
Saltwater Buddha
by Jaimal Yogis | 
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls | 
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller | 
Happy, Happy, Happy
by Phil Robertson | 
Etched in Sand
by Regina Calcaterra | 
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder | 
Gifted Hands
by Ben Carson | 
The Girl with Seven Names
by Hyeonseo Lee | 
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion | 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby | 
Howard Stern Comes Again
by Howard Stern |
Tossing aside a mundane and meaningless job, Daniel Duane went to Santa Cruz, California, to surf for year. The book he wrote about it, Caught Inside is something of a Walden of our times. It's wonderfully written, weaving wave wisdom with literary and historical references. And it's not for surfers only: even readers who have never seen the surf will find themselves taken up in the book's rhythms.