Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome’s Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder 
by Stephen Dando-Collins 
(Turner) 

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s 
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 
(Simon & Schuster) 

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters 
by Susan Page 
(Simon & Schuster) 

Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard 
by Bridget Quinn 
(Chronicle Books) 

Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero 
by Carl Rollyson 
(BearManor Media) 

Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers 
by Jared Stearns 
(Headpress) 

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets 
by Michael Korda  
(Liveright) 

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History 
by Karen Valby 
(Pantheon) 

The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman “Not Apt to be Intimidated” 
by John L. Smith Jr. 
(Westholme Publishing) 

Sisters of Richard III: The Plantagenet Daughters of York 
by Sarah J. Hodder 
(Pen and Sword History)  

Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty 
by Alexander Larman 
(St. Martin’s Press)  

Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett, and the Friendship That Changed the World 
by Anthony McCarten 
(Harper) 

Muhammad Ali: The Man Who Changed Boxing 
by Ralph Oates 
(White Owl) 

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words 
by Boel Westin 
(University of Minnesota Press)  

Janet Leach: Potter 
by Joanna Wason 
(Unicorn Publishing Group)  

Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist 
by Sacha Llewellyn 
(Yale University Press)  

James Joyce: A Life 
by Gabrielle Carey 
(Arden) 

We Shook Up the World: The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammad Ali and George Harrison 
by Tracy Daugherty 
(University of Oklahoma Press)  

Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder 
by Alexander Kriss 
(Beacon Press)  

William Marshal’s Wife: Isabel de Clare, Woman of Influence 
by Julia A. Hickey 
(Pen and Sword History)  

Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII’s Sixth Queen 
by Laura Adkins 
(Pen and Sword History)  

Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships 
by Kathryn Warner 
(Pen and Sword History) 

Jane Austen: Daddy’s Girl: The Life and Influence of The Revd George Austen 
by Zöe Wheddon 
(Pen and Sword History) 

The Real Arthur Miller: The Playwright Who Cared 
by Andrew Norman 
(White Owl) 

Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World 
by David L. Roll 
(Dutton) 

The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union 
by Stephen Puleo 
(St. Martin’s Press) 

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer 
by Robert Sullivan 
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 

FDR’s Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness 
by Michael J. Gerhardt 
(Citadel) 

American Flygirl (Hazel Ying Lee) 
by Susan Tate Ankeny 
(Citadel) 

A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo 
by Javier Suárez-Pajares and Walter Aaron Clark 
(W. W. Norton & Company) 

Marshall’s Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars 
by Kathy Wilson 
(University Press of Kentucky) 

The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud’s Talking Cure 
by Gabriel Brownstein 
(PublicAffairs) 

Max Verstappen: The Unstoppable Force in Formula One 
by Ewan McKenzie 
(Ivy Press) 

Oliver Cromwell: The Brave, Bad Man of British History 
by John Morrill 
(Bloomsbury Continuum) 

World’s Fastest Man: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson 
by Mary Ormsby 
(Sutherland House Books) 

Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads 
by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman 
(University of Arkansas Press) 

The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman 
by Gerald Friesen 
(University of Manitoba Press)  

George Eliot: Whole Soul 
by Ilana Blumberg 
(Oxford University Press) 

Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton 
by Richard E. Burnett and Mark A. Noll 
(Eerdmans) 

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook 
by Hampton Sides 
(Doubleday) 

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man 
by Nicholas Shakespeare 
(Harper) 

Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy 
by Conor Byrne 
(The History Press) 

Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery (Sir John Franklin) 
by Ken McGoogan 
(Douglas & McIntyre) 

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Féiner: Her Memoirs and Political Writings 
by Margaret Ward 
(University College Dublin Press) 

Admiral James Stavridis: Sailor, Scholar, Leader 
by Stanley D. M. Carpenter 
(Naval Institute Press) 

Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence 
by Cam Cobb 
(Omnibus Press) 

Crying in the Rain: The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers 
by Mark Ribowsky 
(Backbeat) 

The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy 
by Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan 
(Pegasus Books) 

Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel 
by Burt Kearns 
(Applause) 

Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath 
by Rachel Trethewey 
(The History Press)  

Kenneth Waltz: An Intellectual Biography 
by Paul R. Viotti 
(Columbia University Press)