Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician
by James M. Bradley
(Oxford University Press)

The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic
by Mark L. Clifford
(Free Press)

The Last Romantic in His Own Words: Ernst von Dohnányi Selected Writings and Interviews
by James A. Grymes and Veronika Kusz
Oxford University Press

Malcolm Before X
by Patrick Parr
(University of Massachusetts Press)

The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2: 1974–80
by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair 
(Dey Street Books)

Why So Serious?: The Untold Story of NBA Champion Nikola Jokic
by Mike Singer
(Harper)

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
(Basic Books)

Goethe: His Faustian Life
by A. N. Wilson
(Bloomsbury Continuum)

Bela Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape
by Robert Cremer
(Clover Press)

Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd
by Mike Cormack
(The History Press)

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair
by Alexandra Seros
(University of Texas Press)

Hemingway’s Faith
by Mary Claire Kendall
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
by Adam Zamoyski
(William Collins)

The Story of the Buddha
by John Tarrant
(Shambhala)

Jane Austen’s Remarkable Aunt, Philadelphia Hancock: A Girl of Genius and Feeling
by Jan Merriman
(Pen and Sword History)

Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
by Catherine Nixey
(Mariner Books)

The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played (Tiger Woods, 2000–2001)
by Kevin Cook
(Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)

Carla Sozzani: Art, Life, Fashion
by Louise Baring
(Thames & Hudson)

Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History (Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer, and Hildegard Stücklen)
by Olivia Campbell
(Park Row)

Chasing the Shadow: Mickey Marcus’s 200 Days of Destiny
by Steven L. Ossad
(University of Missouri)

Sergio Leone By Himself
by Christopher Frayling
(Reel Art Press)

The Sweet Life: Julius LeBlanc Stewart and Painting the Belle Epoque
by James W. Tottis 
(Giles)

George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director
by Joseph McBride 
(Columbia University Press)

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
by Julie Gilbert
(Pantheon)

Markus Barth: His Life and Legacy
by Mark R. Lindsay
(IVP Academic)

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

Making A Canon: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art 
by Janice Leoshko
(University of Chicago Press)

Kings, Queens and Fallen Monarchies: Royal Dynasties of Interwar Europe
by Robert Stove 
(Pen and Sword History)

The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
by John Bleasdale
(University Press of Kentucky)

Emperor Leo III: The Isaurian
by Peter Crawford
(Pen and Sword History)

Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney
by David Leeming
(Karma, New York)

Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir
by Nick Triplow 
(Soho Syndicate)

The Real D. H. Lawrence
Caroline Roope
(White Owl)

Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
Henry Hart
(LSU Press)

Mao Zedong
by Chongji Jin and Xianzhi Pan
(Cambridge University Press)

Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard
by Linda Ambrose
(University of British Columbia Press)

Bill Edrich: The Many Lives of England’s Cricket Great
by Leo McKinstry
(Bloomsbury Sport)

The Life and Music of Booker “Bukka” White: Recalling the Blues
by David W. Johnson
(University Press of Mississippi)

Elizabeth of York and the Birth of the Tudor Dynasty: Uniting the Roses
by Beverley Adams
(Pen and Sword History)

FIDE President Folke Rogard
by Henrik Malm Lindberg
(Thinkers Publishing)

Jack Hawkins: A Biography
by Nathan Morley
(Fonthill Media)

The Musical World of Charles Avison: Melodic Charm and the Powers of Harmony
by Simon D. I. Fleming
(Routledge)

Astad Deboo: An Icon of Contemporary Indian Dance
by Ketu H. Katrak
(Seagull Books)

The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser
by Jonathan Smolin
(Stanford University Press)

A 17th Century Knight: The Life and Times of Simonds D’Ewes
by Ben Norman
(Pen and Sword History)

Archer M. Huntington: Founder of the Hispanic Society of America
by Patricia Fernández Lorenzo
(Syracuse University Press)

Casanova and Enlightenment: His Study of Life and Other Writers
by David John Thompson
(Pen and Sword History)

Senna: The Legend (Ayrton Senna)
by Bruce Hales-Dutton
(Sona Books)

Jan Smuts, 1870–1950: A Photobiography
by Richard Steyn, Anton Joubert, et al. 
(Protea Boekhuis)

From Fighting Napoleon to the Scottish Military Academy: The Life of Captain John Orr
by Rosslyn Macphail
(Pen and Sword Military)

The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911–1943: Last Train from Jerusalem
by Ross Davies
(Liverpool University Press)

A Carpetbagger In Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America’s First Black Democratic Congressman
by John Morris Knapp 
(University Alabama Press)

Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains
by Sally Thompson
(Bison Books)

Aleksandr Tvardovskii: Memory and Truth in the Soviet Union
by Geoffrey Hosking
(Central European University Press)

Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence
by Lisa G. Materson
(The University of North Carolina Press)

Icon, Libertine, Leader: The Life and Presidency of John F. Kennedy
by Mark White 
(Bloomsbury Academic)

A Physician in the Age of Liberal Reform: Ildefonso Martínez y Fernández and Medical Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain
by Andrew W. Keitt
(LSU Press)