On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
by Thomas Hertog
(Bantam)

George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
by Sally Bedell Smith
(Random House)

Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice (Leander McNelly)
by Tom Clavin
(St. Martin’s Press)

The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided
by Alexander Larman
(St. Martin’s Press)

Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
by Robert Mack McCormick
(Smithsonian Books)

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
by Richard Norton Smith
(Harper)

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality (Derek Parfit)
by David Edmonds
(Princeton University Press)

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
by Rory Carroll
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

Barbra Streisand: The Music, the Albums, the Singles
by Matt Howe
(Fayetteville Mafia Press)

LeBron (LeBron James)
by Jeff Benedict
(Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Marrell McCollough)
by Leta McCollough Seletzky
(Counterpoint)

Self-Destruction: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of U.S. Senator Daniel B. Brewster
by John W. Frece
(Loyola College/Apprentice House)

Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation (Blanche DuBois)
by Nancy Schoenberger
(Harper)

Charles III: A King and His Queen
by Chris Jackson
(Rizzoli)

Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait
by Gyles Brandreth
(Michael Joseph)

Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader (Montana Barronette)
by Montana Barronette
(Atlantic Monthly Press)

Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris
by Anne de Courcy
(St. Martin’s Press)

Samuel Barber: His Life and Legacy
by Howard Pollack
(University of Illinois Press)

Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
by Stephen Talty
(Mariner Books)

We Share the Sun: The Incredible Journey of Kenya’s Legendary Running Coach Patrick Sang and the Fastest Runners on Earth
by Sarah Gearhart
(Pegasus Books)

Elizabeth & Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage, and Monarchy
by Tessa Dunlop
(Pegasus Books)

True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times
by Robert Greenfield
(Crown)

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Franya Winter)
by Meryl Frank
(Hachette Books)

After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller
by Max Wallace
(Grand Central Publishing)

Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties
by Robert F. Garratt
(University of Nebraska Press)

Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter
by Dan T. Carter
(NewSouth Books)

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
by Vanessa Wilkie
(Atria Books)

The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas
by Daniel Kiel
(Stanford University Press)

Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi
by Stuart Flinders
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by Ava Chin
(Penguin Press)

Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
(Henry Holt & Company)

Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
by Larry Rohter
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
by Kate Cooper
(Basic Books)

Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers
by Thomas W. Lippman
(Georgetown University Press)

Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
by Benjamin Balint
(W. W. Norton & Company)

The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
by Adi Mahalel
(State University of New York Press)

The Farrows of Hollywood: Their Dark Side of Paradise
by Marilyn Ann Moss
(Skyhorse)

Donna Dennis: Poet in Three Dimensions
by Helaine Posner, Rackstraw Downes, and Nicole Miller
(The Monacelli Press)

Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America
by Stephanie Stein Crease
(Oxford University Press)

Rasputin and His Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra
by Mickey Mayhew
(Pen and Sword History)

George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks
by Jerry Emory
(University of Chicago Press)

A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
by Gregory May
(Liveright)

Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold
by Erik Rebain
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle (Olive Yang)
by Gabrielle Paluch
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
by Marsha Gordon
(University of California Press)

On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide
by Richard Barrios
(Oxford University Press)

Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer
by Beverley Adams
(Pen and Sword History)

The First Enigma Code-Breaker: The Untold Story of Marian Rejewski Who Passed the Baton to Alan Turing
by Robert Gawlowski
(Naval Institute Press)

George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History
by Thomas F. Reese
(Getty Research Institute)

Beethoven in the Bunker: Musicians Under the Nazi Regime
by Fred Brouwers and Eileen J. Stevens
(Other Press)

Janet Reno: A Life
by Judith Hicks Stiehm
(University Press of Florida)

Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington
by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot
(SelfMadeHero)

Gautam Adani: Reimagining Business in India and the World
by R. N. Bhaskar
(Penguin Business)

A New Force at Sea: George Dewey and the Rise of the American Navy
by David A. Smith
(Naval Institute Press)

The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III (Philippa of Hainault and Alice Perrers)
by Gemma Hollman
(Pegasus Books)

Getting About: Travel Writings of William F. Buckley Jr.
by Bill Meehan
(Encounter Books)

The First Celebrities: Five Regency Portraits
by Peter James Bowman
(Amberley Publishing)

About Nothing: Isidro Ferrer
by Miguel Ángel Pérez Arteaga
(Hoaki)

The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women’s Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work
by Shannon M. Risk
(Lexington Books)

The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566–1585
by Steven J. Reid
(John Donald)

Banker and philanthropist: A Portrait of Anthony de Rothschild
by David Kynaston
(Hurtwood Press)

The Natural: The Story of Patsy Houlihan, the Greatest Snooker Player You Never Saw
by Luke Williams
(Pitch Publishing)

The Man Who Killed Martin Luther King: The Life and Crimes of James Earl Ray
by Mel Ayton
(Frontline Books)

The DJ Who “Brought Down” the USSR: The Life and Legacy of Seva Novgorodsev
by Michelle Daniel
(Academic Studies Press)

Pauline Gower: Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women
by Alison Hill
(The History Press)

Rani Durgawati: The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen
by Nandini Sengupta
(India Viking)

Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics
by Carol A. Hess
(University of Illinois Press)