The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World
by Ray E. Boomhower
(High Road Books)

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Natalie Dykstra
(Mariner Books)

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
by Brad Gooch
(Harper)

Frank Moorhouse: Strange Paths
by Matthew Lamb
(Knopf Australia)

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
by Katie Gee Salisbury
(Dutton)

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography
by Jessica Max Stein
(Rutgers University Press)

The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops
by Jack McCallum
(Hachette Books)

Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty
by Scott Howard-Cooper
(Atria Books)

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
by James Kaplan
(Penguin Press)

Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World
by Martin Goodman
(Yale University Press)

The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
by Alex Hortis
(Pegasus Crime)

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by Keith O’Brien
(Pantheon)

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines (Frances and Kathryn McLaughlin)
by Carol Kino
(Scribner)

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
by Cynthia Carr
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen―An Authorized Biography
by Brendan Greaves
(Hachette Books)

Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
by Francine Klagsbrun
(Yale University Press)

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
by Daniel de Visé
(Atlantic Monthly Press)

Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
edited by Greg Johnson
(Akashic Books)

J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and The Man
by Edward G. Longacre
(Savas Beatie)

Drive: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods
by Bob Harig
(St. Martin’s Press)

Cardinal Dreams: The Legacy of Charlie Peete and a Life Cut Short
by Danny Spewak
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun (Emil Kapaun)
by John Stansifer
(Hanover Square Press)

Jean Peters: Hollywood’s Mystery Girl
by Michelangelo Capua
(University Press of Mississippi)

Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
by Jane Kamensky
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
by Avril Horner
(Manchester University Press)

Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
by Brian Bisesi
(University Press of Mississippi)

The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall
by Josiah Bunting III
(Knopf)

Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing
by Peter Harmsen
(Casemate)

Terrence Malick and the Examined Life
by Martin Woessner
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and the Thelemites
by Martin P. Starr
(Oxford University Press)

Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
by Andrew Maraniss
(Vanderbilt University Press)

Leo Sowerby
by Joseph Sargent
(University of Illinois Press)

She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music
by Gillian Dooley
(Manchester University Press)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Charles Portal: One of the Greatest Allied Leaders of WW2
by Richard Michael Milburn
(Air World)

Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit
by Kerry Wallach
(Penn State University Press)

Simone Forti: Improvising a Life
by Ann Cooper Albright
(Wesleyan University Press)

A Seat at the Table: The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
by Glenn L. Starks and F. Erik Brooks
(Lawrence Hill Books)

Spitfire Across The Atlantic (James Storey)
by Ricardo Martin Lezon
(Fonthill Media)

A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up
by Margaret Wappler
(Simon & Schuster)

She Spied for Freedom: Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent
by Margaret C. Jones
(Fonthill Media)

Bonnie Geordie: The Life of Tycoon Sir George Elliot
by Sophie McCallum
(Amberley Publishing)