This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
by Gayle F. Wald
University of Chicago Press

Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General (C. Everett Koop)
by Nigel M. de S. Cameron
University of Massachusetts Press

Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts: Terror in a Small Town (Arthur Oker, Augusta Johnson)
Robert Fitzgibbon and Wayne Soini
The History Press

Dianaworld: An Obsession (Princess Diana)
by Edward White
W. W. Norton & Company

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
by Elaine Pagels
Doubleday

Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung
by Fyodor Tertitskiy
Oxford University Press

Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
by Jacob Blanc
University of North Carolina Press

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
by Ian Leslie
Celadon Books

Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend
by Jason Bailey
Abrams Press

Born to Play Loud: The Vivian Campbell Story
by Brian Ireland
Wymer UK

A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled
by Alex Green
Bellevue Literary Press

The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
by Douglas Waller
Dutton

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
by Susannah Cahalan
Viking

Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life (Robert Crumb)
by Dan Nadel
Scribner

Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer (Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer)
by David Denby
Henry Holt and Company

Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
by Peter Brooks
New York Review Books

L.A. Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages
by Bill Plunkett
Triumph Books

The Permanent Holdout: Jackson Browne, His Music, His America
by Cornel Bonca
Rowman & Littlefield

The Battlin’ Bastards of Bravo: Bravo Company, 1/506th, 101st Airborne, in Vietnam and Beyond
by Melissa Ziobro
Casemate

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí
by Michele Gerber Klein
Harper

SMiLE: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson
by David Leaf
Omnibus Press

Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
by Claire Hoffman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines (Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright)
by Jonathan Horn
Scribner

Blockbuster!: The Sweet Story
by Martin Popof
Wymer UK

The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era
by Michael deGruccio
Johns Hopkins University Press

L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood
by Anne Soon Choi
Third State Books

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
by Shaun Walker
Knopf

Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine
by Sharon Ann Musher
NYU Press

The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
by Helen Rappaport
St. Martin’s Press

Chitto Harjo: Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way
by Donald L. Fixico
Yale University Press

The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic’s Chinese Survivors [Ah Lam, Chang Chip, Cheong Foo, Fang Lang (or Fong Wing Sun), Lee Bing, and Ling Hee]
by Steven Schwankert
Pegasus Books

Man of Valor, Man of Grace: The Life of David
by Charles R. Swindoll
Thomas Nelson

NAOMIE ANOMIE: A Biography of Infinite Desire
by Jennifer Hasegawa
Omnidawn

Faith of the Fathers: The Comprehensive History of Catholic Chaplains in the Civil War
by Robert J. Miller
University of Notre Dame Press

Faithful Defiance: Marshall Keeble’s Life and Legacy
by C. Leonard Allen
Abilene Christian University Press

Thomas Becket and His World
by Michael Staunton
Reaktion Books

The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
by Janine Barchas and Isabel Greenberg
Black Dog & Leventhal

The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It
by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
University Press of Mississippi

Searching for the Last Anglo-Saxon King: Harold Godwinson, England’s Golden Warrior
by Paula Lofting
Pen and Sword History

“My Name Is Not Tom”: The Life of the Reverend Josiah Henson
by Susan Cooke Soderberg
Georgetown University Press

Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights
by Alan Reuther
Michigan State University Press

Shakespeare’s Greatest Love (Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton)
by David Medina
Disruption Books

The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World
by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Citadel

Room 100: Sid, Nancy, and the Night Punk Rock Died (Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen)
by Jesse P. Pollack
Backbeat

Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery (Sir John Franklin)
by Mark Synnott
Dutton

June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary
by Thomas J. Slater
University Press of Kentucky

Lowdown: The Music of Boz Scaggs
by Jude Warne
Chicago Review Press

Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco
by Lincoln A. Mitchell
University of Nevada Press

Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian
by Michael Braddick
Verso

In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
by Rüdiger Görner
Haus Publishing

Through Fire and Water: The Life and Faith of Paul Houghton, Fleet Surgeon of the Malta Convoys
by Mark Houghton
Malcolm Down Publishing

In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School
by Tom Weiner and Dr. Amilcar Shabazz
Olive Branch Press

Nothin’ Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield
by Michael Seth Starr
Citadel

Hollywood Boozers, Brawlers and Hard-Luck Cases: Fifteen Ill-Fated Actors of the Golden Age
by Laura Wagner
McFarland

Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger
by Rob King
Columbia University Press

The Sharpshooter and the Showman: May Lillie, Pawnee Bill, and Their Wild West Show
by Chris Enss
Farcountry Press

The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television
by Bernard F. Dick
University Press of Mississippi

David: A Man After God’s Own Heart
by Dr. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Messianic Jewish Publishers

Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies
by Benjamin Tausig
Duke University Press

Thoughts That Burned: William Goodell, Human Rights, and the Abolition of American Slavery
by Steve Gowler
Cornell University Press

Little Richard: Send Me Some Lovin’
by Spencer Leigh
McNidder and Grace

Minnesota’s Most Notorious Mobster: The Making and Breaking of Kid Cann (Isadore Blumenfeld)
by Ron de Beaulieu
The History Press

A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom: The Life of Elisha Tyson
by Joshua D. Rothman
University of Georgia Press

Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield space age, from The Human League to Pulp (Ken Patten)
by Jamie Taylor
Manchester University Press

Moses: The Man Who Saw the Invisible God
by Dr. Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Messianic Jewish Publishers

The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation
by John Bicknell
Stackpole Books

Early Buster Keaton: From the Vaudeville Stage to Comique Films, 1899-1920
by Lisa Stein Haven
White Owl

Moshe Dayan: The Making of a Strategist
by Eitan Shamir
Cambridge University Press

Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor
by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Reaktion Books

General George S. Patton and the Art of Leadership: One of America’s Greatest Ever Generals
by William Nester
Frontline Books

Dangerous Danny Gardella: Baseball’s Neglected Trailblazer for Today’s Millionaire Athletes
by Robert Elias
Rowman & Littlefield

The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre: An Actress, a Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov (Lidia Yavorskaya, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, and Anton Chekhov)
by Serge Gregory
Northern Illinois University Press

Preparing Tudor Kings and Princes to Rule: The Men and Women Who Trained the Royals
by Julia A Hickey
Pen and Sword History

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
by Paul E. Lovejoy and Nielson Bezerra
University of North Carolina Press

Joshua Hill of Madison: Civil War Unionist and Georgia’s First Republican Senator, 1812-1891
by Bradley R. Rice
Mercer University Press

Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster, From the Eastern Front in WW2 to Cold War CIA Asset
by Norman Ridley
Frontline Books

Hitman: The Untold Story of Canada’s Deadliest Assassin (Yves “Apache” Trudeau)
by Julian Sher and Lisa Fitterman
HarperCollins

The Belle Époque Life in Paris: Olga Paley and Paul of Russia
by Wilfried Zeisler
GILES

Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
by Padraig Rooney
Polity

The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films
by James Miller
Columbia University Press

Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
by Suzanne Cope
Dutton

Katharine Barnwell: How One Woman Revolutionized Modern Missions
by Jordan Monson
B&H Books

John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude
by Lomig
NBM Publishing

Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory
by Sezin Devi Koehler
Chicago Review Press

A Gate in the Wall: A Pacific War POW’s Secret Diary and a Family’s Path Toward Reconciliation (Wim Lindeijer)
by Melinda Barnhardt
McFarland

Hollywood on the Veld: When Movie Mayhem Gripped the City of Gold (Isidore Schlesinger)
by Ted Botha
Jonathan Ball Publishers

St. Paul of Tarsus: From Persecutor to Persecuted
by Waldemar Chrostowski
Sophia Institute Press

A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions
by David Gibson
Syracuse University Press

Quiet Fire: The Spiritual Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Duncan D. Newcomer
Santos Books

Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup (Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi)
by John Dinges
University of California Press

The Dazzling Paget Sisters: Identical Twins at the Heart of the 20th Century (Celia and Mamaine Paget)
by Ariane Banks
McNally Editions

Understanding Octavia E. Butler
by Kendra R. Parker
University of South Carolina Press

Portrait of a Family: The Conollys of Castletown
by Ruth Thorpe
Wordwell Books

Trudeau as Statesman: 1965–2000, Son of Quebec, Father of Canada (Pierre Trudeau)
by Max and Monique Nemni and David Milne
Dundurn Press

Cavendish (Margaret Cavendish)
by Alison Peterman
Routledge

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland
by Elena Emma Sottilotta
Princeton University Press