Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins 
by Aidan Levy 
(Hachette Books) 

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey 
by Edward J. O’Shea 
(Routledge) 

Lady of the Army: The Life of Mrs. George S. Patton 
by Stefanie Van Steelandt 
(Minnegate Press) 

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon 
by Kate Andersen Brower 
(Harper) 

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem 
by Matthew Hollis 
(W. W. Norton & Company) 

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun (George Herbert) 
by the Countess of Carnarvon 
(Harper) 

Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens, Volume Three 
by Alison Weir 
(Ballantine Books) 

The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969–1973 (Paul McCartney) 
by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair 
(Dey Street Books) 

The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe 
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman 
(St. Martin’s Press) 

Aaron Judge: The Incredible Story of the New York Yankees’ Home Run-Hitting Phenom 
by David Fischer 
(Sports Publishing) 

The Final Year of Anne Boleyn 
by Natalie Grueninger 
(Pen and Sword History) 

Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici 
by Estelle Paranque 
(Hachette Books) 

The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England’s Most Famous Dynasty 
by Sarah Gristwood 
(St. Martin’s Press) 

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth 
by Keiron Pim 
(Granta Books) 

The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire 
by Kal Raustiala 
(Oxford University Press) 

Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In, Volume 3
by Michael Posner 
(Simon & Schuster) 

Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy 
by Burt Kearns 
(University Press of Kentucky) 

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of Defiance 
by Jonathan Adams 
(University of Wales Press) 

The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy (James Bulloch and Thomas Dudley) 
by Alexander Rose 
(Mariner Books) 

Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England 
by Nino Strachey 
(Atria Books) 

Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides 
by Paul Clements 
(Scribe US) 

Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship 
by Christina Jarvis 
(Seven Stories Press) 

Daughters of the Buddha: Teachings by Ancient Indian Women 
by Bhikkhu Analayo 
(Wisdom Publications) 

Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story 
by Willard Jenkins 
(Duke University Press Books) 

Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters 
by Ana de Sagrera 
(Fonthill Media) 

Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary 
by Stephen R. MacKinnon 
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press) 

The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker 
by Maryemma Graham 
(Oxford University Press) 

War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance 
by Daniel Akst 
(Melville House) 

The Mortimers: The Turbulent Lives and Times of an Aristocratic Family 1360–1425 
by Sara Hanna-Black 
(Amberley Publishing) 

The Ashe Brothers: How Arthur and Johnnie Changed Tennis Forever 
written by Judy Allen Dodson, illustrated by David Wilkerson 
(Capstone Editions) 

Edward III’s Faithful Knight: Walter Mauny and His Legacy 
by Stephen Porter 
(Amberley Publishing) 

Outside Looking In: The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin 
by John Corcelli 
(Applause) 

Aleister Crowley in Paris: Sex, Art, and Magick in the City of Light 
by Tobias Churton 
(Inner Traditions) 

Shadows of Emmett Till 
by Bob Newman 
(Kehrer Verlag) 

Frank & Marilyn: The Lives, the Loves, and the Fascinating Relationship of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe 
by Edward Z. Epstein 
(Post Hill Press) 

Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice 
by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt 
(University of Nebraska Press) 

The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist 
by Tadeusz Lewandowski 
(University of Nebraska Press) 

Eccentric Lives: The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries 
by Andrew M. Brown 
(Unicorn Publishing Group) 

Macbeth Before Shakespeare 
by Benjamin Hudson 
(Oxford University Press) 

Written in Water: Keats’s Final Journey 
by Alessandro Gallenzi 
(Alma Books) 

Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius 
by Bob Blaisdell 
(Pegasus Books) 

Breakspear: The English Pope (Nicholas Breakspear) 
by R. A. Waddingham 
(The History Press) 

Defender of the Faithful: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Levi Yitshak of Berdychiv 
by Arthur Green 
(Brandeis University Press) 

James Hutton: The Genius of Time 
by Ray Perman 
(Birlinn) 

Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig, Warrior Six: Combat Leader in World War II and Korea 
by Richard D. Camp 
(Casemate) 

André Gorz: A Life 
by Willy Gianinazzi 
(Seagull Books) 

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time (Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews) 
by Jenny Uglow 
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 

Hitler’s Tyranny: A History in Ten Chapters 
by Ralf Georg Reuth 
(Haus Publishing) 

God of Sperm: Cappy Rothman’s Life in Conception 
by Joe Donnelly 
(Rare Bird Books) 

Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Époque 
by Sharon Larson 
(Penn State University Press) 

S.F. Edge: Maker of Motoring History 
by Simon Fisher 
(Evro Publishing Limited) 

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia’s Greatest Explorer 
by Peter FitzSimons 
(Hachette Australia) 

The Many Lives of Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna: An Authorized Biography 
by Veejay Sai 
(Vintage Books) 

Sniper on the Ypres Salient: An Infantryman’s War In The Royal Welsh Fusiliers 
by Sue Boase 
(Pen and Sword Military) 

Citizen of London: Richard Whittington – The Boy Who Would Be Mayor 
by Michael McCarthy 
(Hurst) 

Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People 
by Russell A. Flinchum and Ralph O. Meyer 
(State University of New York Press) 

The Women of General Motors: A Century of Art & Engineering 
by Constance A. Smith 
(Schiffer) 

Bhagat Singh: A Life in Revolution 
by Satvinder S. Juss 
(Viking India) 

Victorine du Pont: The Force behind the Family 
by Leonard C. Spitale 
(University of Delaware Press) 

Emperor of the Five Rivers: The Life and Times of Maharajah Ranjit Singh 
by Mohamed Sheikh 
(Bloomsbury Academic) 

Clara M. Thompson’s Professional Evolution and Legacy: An American Psychoanalyst 
by Ann D’Ercole 
(Routledge) 

Pioneering Women’s Education: Dorothea Beale, An Unlikely Reformer 
by Sally Ann Waller 
(Pen and Sword History)