It’s No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown’s Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy
by Margena A. Christian
Da Capo

The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
by Ethelene Whitmire
Viking

The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster (Elizabeth Bathory)
by Shelley Puhak
Bloomsbury Publishing

Scatman John: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Unlikeliest Popstar (John Larkin)
by Gina Waggott
Bloomsbury Academic

Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson (Group biography of 13 Enlightenment figures)
by Andrew S. Curran
Other Press

Karen Blixen’s Search for Self: The Making of “Out of Africa”
by Patti M. Marxsen
LSU Press

A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing
by Betty Boyd Caroli
Oxford University Press

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema (Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg)
by Paul Fischer
Celadon Books

Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Matthew Pinsker
W. W. Norton & Company

Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family—and the World (Rupert Murdoch)
by Gabriel Sherman
Simon & Schuster

Scalia: The Supreme Court Years, 1986–2016 (Antonin Scalia)
by James Rosen
Regnery

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician (Bernie Sanders)
by Dan Chiasson
Knopf

Michelangelo and Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius
by William E. Wallace
Princeton University Press

The Navigator’s Letter: Two Airmen, One Mission, and the Bond that Kept Them Together (Subjects are unnamed)
by Jan Cress Dondi
Union Square & Co.

End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America (Randy Weaver)
by Chris Jennings
Little, Brown and Company

I Told You So: The Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Imprisoned, and Even Executed—for Being Right (More than a dozen historic and modern-day scientists)
by Matt Kaplan
St. Martin’s Press

Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball (Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone)
by Luke Epplin
Grand Central Publishing

The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
by Gregory E. O’Malley
St. Martin’s Press

Injustice Town: A Corrupt City, a Wrongly Convicted Man, and a Struggle for Freedom (Lamonte McIntyre)
by Rick Tulsky
Pegasus Books

The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Morès
by Sergio Luzzatto
Harvard University Press

Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen without a Crown
by Ann Foster
Hanover Square Press

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
by Richard Holmes
Pantheon

Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict, and Couture (Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, Princess Lillibet)
by Justine Picardie
Pegasus Books

Wired on Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Tipper X, One of the FBI’s Most Prolific Informants
by Tom Hardin
Wiley

Emilio Pucci: The Astonishing Odyssey of a Fashion Icon
by Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci
St. Martin’s Press

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver
by Peter E. Gordon
Yale University Press

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World (Martha Gellhorn, Emily “Mickey” Hahn, Rebecca West)
by Julia Cook
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Twilight of Camelot: The Short Life and Long Legacy of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
by Steven Levingston
Gallery Books

Charlotte Brontë’s Life Through Clothes
by Eleanor Houghton
Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire
by Katie Prescott
Macmillan Business

Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind
by Michael Scott
Yale University Press

Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie
by Alexander Larman
Pegasus Books

Confederate General D. H. Hill: A Military Life (Daniel Harvey Hill)
by Chris J. Hartley
Savas Beatie

Carlo Gambino: Boss of Bosses
by Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson
Citadel

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy (Leon Trotsky)
by Josh Ireland
Dutton

Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend: Reconsidering Lincoln as Commander in Chief
by Kenneth W. Noe
LSU Press

Malcolm and Ida: A Love Story in Letters (Malcolm Kyzer and Ida Reynolds)
by Catherine Metzger with Ida Reynolds Kyzer and Hubert Malcolm Kyzer
Warren Publishing

Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph over Tragedy
by Gail Levin
Pegasus Books

Daughters of Daring: Hollywood Cowgirl Stunt Women (Ruth Roland, Helen Gibson, Texas Guinan, Marin Sais, Anne Little, Marie Walcamp, and Evelyn Selbi)
by Chris Enss
Lyons Press

Magic Moments: The Perry Como Story
by Matthew Long
Bloomsbury Academic

Out of the Rough: Ted Rhodes and His Fight against Golf’s Color Barrier
by Dan Taylor
Bloomsbury Publishing

August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art
by Laurence Glasco
University of Pittsburgh Press

Bellini
by Fabrizio Della Seta
translated by James Chater
Oxford University Press

Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World’s Most Famous Journalist
by Richard Evans
The History Press

Bridget’s Gambit: A Saga of Family Enterprise in Gold Rush California (Bridget Miranda Evoy)
by Craig S. Harwood
University of Oklahoma Press

Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus
by Nicole L. Woods
University of Chicago Press

Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel
by Chris Given-Wilson
Yale University Press

Cromwell’s Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War, the Life of George Downing
by Dennis Sewell
Pegasus Books

Becoming Alice Millard: Bookseller and Tastemaker
by Michèle V. Cloonan
Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

Castro: A Biography by Consent (Fidel Castro)
by Claudia Furiati
Skyhorse

Kiss ’76: Twelve Months That Defined the Hottest Band in the Land
by Martin Popoff
Motorbooks

Custer in Kansas: The U.S. 7th Cavalry and its Commander in the American West, 1866–1869 (George Armstrong Custer)
by Arnold Blumberg
Casemate

Marshal Pilsudski and his Wars for Polish Freedom: Poland’s Conflicts with Ukraine, Lithuania, and Soviet Russia
by Evan McGilvray
Pen and Sword Military

Inventing Percy Grainger: The Construction of Biography on Page, Stage, and Screen
by Sarah Kirby
Boydell Press

Tumbleweed Underworld: A Saga of Morphine and Mayhem in the Arizona Territory (Georgie Clifford)
by Eduardo Obregón Pagán
University of Oklahoma Press

Nikephoros II Phokas, 912–969: The White Death of the Saracens
by Ilkka Syvänne
Pen & Sword Military

A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe’s Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence
by Marc Mierowsky
Yale University Press

Coomaraswamy: His Life and Work
by Roger Lipsey
Princeton University Press

There’s a Criminal Touch to Art: How Ulay Stole Hitler’s Favorite Painting and Redefined Performance Art (Ulay and Marina Abramovic)
by Noah Charney with the Ulay Foundation and the Abramovic Institute
Bloomsbury Academic

William Friedkin: The Life and Films of a Cinematic Risk-Taker
by Christopher Heard
Sutherland House

Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History 
by Nicola Pierce
The O’Brien Press

English Liberator: William Miller and the Independence of Spanish South America
by John Hemming
Haus Publishing

River of Becoming: The Life and Times of Lucas Samaras
by Michael Skafidas
Eris

Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist
by Adam Voelcker
University of Wales Press

Axel Oxenstierna: The Mastermind behind Sweden’s Victory in the Thirty Years’ War
by Gunnar Wetterberg
Bokforlaget Stolpe

Spies in History: From Antiquity to the Silver Screen
edited by Paul Lay
Bokforlaget Stolpe

We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
by Norah O’Donnell with Kate Andersen Brower
Ballantine Books

A Mother’s Work: Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War–Era Nurse
by Megan VanGorder
University of North Carolina Press

Julius Caesar: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
by Tom Stevenson
Bloomsbury Academic

From Hungarian Orthodoxy Separatism to Fervent Zionism: The Life and Times of Rabbi M. S. Glasner
by Yoav Sorek
Academic Studies Press

Have Mercy Baby: The Life of Clyde McPhatter
by Steve Bergsman
University Press of Mississippi

Prince’s Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place
by Rashad Shabazz
University of North Carolina Press

Louis J. Robichaud: A Man for the Moment
by Donald J. Savoie
McGill-Queen’s University Press

A Double-Edged Sword: The Biography of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott, 1782–1845
by David F. Long
University of Alabama Press

A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks
by Scott Meslow
Running Press Adult

Berenice: Queen in Roman Judea
by Bruce Chilton
Yale University Press

Aspiring Child: A Biography of Mary W. Shelley in Sonnets
by Ted Morrissey
Twelve Winters Press