Mark Twain
by Ron Chernow
Penguin Press

A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany
by Cindy Schweich Handler
McFarland

The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II (Evans Carlson)
by Stephen R. Platt
Penguin Random House

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
by Daniel Brook
W. W. Norton & Company

Peace Is A Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’Brien
by Alex Vernon
St. Martin’s Press

Evelyn Beatrice Longman: The Woman Who Sculpted Golden Boy, Thomas Edison, and Other Monuments
by Patricia Hoerth Batchelder
Rowman & Littlefield

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
by Mark Hussey
Manchester University Press

Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
by Faiz Siddiqui
St. Martin’s Press

E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author
by Rose Neal
Lyons Press

Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine (Baby Jane Holzer, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Ultra Violet, Viva, Brigid Berlin, Ingrid Superstar, International Velvet, Mary Woronov, and Candy Darling)
by Laurence Leamer
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
by Beck Aickman
Bloomsbury

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker (Richard Ellmann and James Joyce)
by Zachary Leader
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land (David Jochelmann and Israel Zangwill)
by Rachel Cockerell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet
by Edward Luce
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
by Mark Whitaker
Simon & Schuster

The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay
by Christopher Clarey
Grand Central Publishing

Carême: The First Celebrity Chef (Antonin Carême)
by Ian Kelly
Bloomsbury

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
by Keach Hagey
W. W. Norton & Company

Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story
by Rich Cohen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
by Ted Genoways
W. W. Norton & Company

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
by Tourmaline
Tiny Reparations Books

Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
by Dane Huckelbridge
William Morrow

Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson
by Alan D. Gaff
University of Nebraska Press

The Zodiac Killer: The Story of America’s Most Elusive Murderer
by Michael Butterfield
Sirius

I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher
by Annie Zaleski
Running Press Adult

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
by Sue Prideaux
W. W. Norton & Company

Rory Land: The Up-and-Down World of Golf’s Global Icon (Rory McIlroy)
by Timothy M. Gay
Regalo Press

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
by Philip Hoare
Pegasus Books

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
by Michelle Young
HarperOne

Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan
by Tom Cooper
Connected Editions, Incorporated

Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal
by Samuel Marquis
Diversion Books

High Priest: Raymond Buckland, the Father of American Witchcraft
by Jason Mankey
Llewellyn Publications

Riders In The Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor
by Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone
Texas A&M University Press

Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World (Social Distortion, The Adolescents, The Offspring, No Doubt, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and more)
by Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn
Da Capo

Bobby Darin: Roman Candle
by David Evanier
State University of New York Press

Love Is A Journey: The Inspiring Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani)
by Mo Guernon
Sheed & Ward

Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land (Kurt Ver Beek and Carlos Hernández)
by Ross Halperin
Liveright

Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom
by Hanna Diamond
Yale University Press

Petty vs. Pearson: The Rivalry That Shaped NASCAR (Richard Petty and David Pearson)
by Mike Hembree
Motorbooks

King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture
by Clive Aslet
Triglyph Books

A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre
by Garrett Felber
AK Press

The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine
by Brendan O’Meara
Mariner Books

Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
by James Romm
W. W. Norton & Company

Boyz II Men: 40th Anniversary Celebration, Unofficial & Unauthorized
by John Morrison
Epic Ink

Mike Mentzer: American Odysseus
by John Little
ECW Press

Boccaccio: A Biography
by Marco Santagata
translated by Emlyn Eisenach
University of Chicago Press

In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of José Chávez y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio Salazar
by James B. Mills
University of North Texas Press

Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond
by Christopher Shaw Myers
Citadel Press

John Britten: The Man and His Revolutionary Motorcycles
by Tim Hanna
Octane Press

Dickens The Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
by Peter Conrad
Bloomsbury Continuum

Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein
by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael D. Gordin
Oxford University Press

The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers
by Don Gillis
Fordham University Press

Citizen Wynn: A Sin City Saga of Power, Lust, and Blind Ambition (Steve Wynn)
by Dennis McDougal
Rare Bird Books

Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850–1950
by Eli Erlick
Beacon Press

My Legs Were Praying: A Biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel
by Or N. Rose with Dov Peretz Elkins
Monkfish Book Publishing

Georgia and Anita: The Lifelong Friendship of Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
by Liza Bennett
University of Nebraska Press

The Miniature Painter Revealed: Amalia Kussner’s Gilded Age Pursuit of Fame and Fortune
by Kathleen Langone
Lyons Press

The Giant: Orson Welles, the Artist and the Shadow
by Youssef Daoudi
23rd St. Books

The Morse Code: Decoding the Career of Iconic Lighting Designer Peter Morse
by Vickie Claiborne with Peter Morse
Routledge

Hero of Fort Sumter: The Extraordinary Life of Robert Anderson
by Wesley Moody
University of Oklahoma Press

Dashing to the End: The Ray Milland Story
by Eric Monder
University Press of Mississippi

Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso
by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi
Yale University Press

Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War (Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill)
by Jill Eicher
Pegasus Books

Buddhist Masters of Modern China: The Lives and Legacies of Eight Eminent Teachers
edited by Benjamin Brose
Shambhala

Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
by John Lisle
St. Martin’s Press

Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work (600 overlooked or disregarded women)
by Allison Tyra
Rising Action

Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band
by Stephen T. Lewis
Schiffer

Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne
by Chris Enss
Citadel

Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Secret Love, and the Unimagined Life of an Unsung New York Hero (Albert Sprague Bard)
by Anthony C. Wood
Rowman & Littlefield

The Glacier Priest: Father Bernard Hubbard and America’s Last Frontier
by Josh McMullen
University of Notre Dame Press

The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History (Jacob Harris)
by Tony Kushner
Manchester University Press

Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin
by Kevin J. Hayes
Oxford University Press

No Race, No Country: The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright
by Deborah Mutnick
University of North Carolina Press

Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
by Dean Van Nguyen
Doubleday

The Tenacious Nurse Nichols: An Unsung African American Civil War Hero (Lucy Higgs Nichols)
by Eileen Yanoviak
Lyons Press

The Godfathers of Horror Films: Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
by Jennifer Selway
White Owl

Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
by John Sweeney
Headline

Female Force: Brandi Carlile
by Darren G. Davis
Tidalwave Productions

I Am Here You Are Not I Love You: Andrew Topolski, Cindy Suffoletto, and Their Life in the Arts
by Aidan Ryan
University of Iowa Press

I Killed Maria Goretti: The Life and Repentance of Alessandro Serenelli
by Pietro Di Donato
Sophia Institute Press

The Real Charles Dickens
by Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas
White Owl

The Lord Protector and His Wives: Catherine Filliol, Anne Stanhope and Edward Seymour
by Rebecca Batley
Pen and Sword History

The Dark Side of Isaac Newton: A Modern Biography
by Nick Kollerstrom
Pen and Sword History

The Greatest American: Benjamin Franklin, History’s Most Versatile Genius
by Mark Skousen
Republic Book Publishers

The Children of Charles the Second: The Merry Monarch’s Fourteen Bastards
by John Van Der Kiste
Fonthill Media

Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: Portrait of an Artist, 1755–1842
by Judith Lissauer Cromwell
McFarland

The Man Who Tested Parachutes: Charles Agate and the Development of Britain’s Airborne Forces for D-Day and Arnhem
by Andrew Colley and John Neil
Air World

In Theory, Darling: Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination
by Marcos Gonsalez
Beacon Press

Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans
by Steven Belletto
Bloomsbury Academic

The Ballad of “Blind” Willie Johnson: Race, Redemption, and the Soul of an American Artist
by Shane Ford
Texas A&M University Press

An Apprehension of Splendor: A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family
by Shawn Sudia-Skehan
University of Alabama Press

Jack Hawkins: A Biography
by Nathan Morley
Fonthill Media

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town
by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Rutgers University Press

A Conspiracy of Crowns: The Murder Case of the 20th Century (Sir Harry Oakes and Alfred de Marigny)
by Alfred de Marigny with Mickey Herskowitz
Garrett County Press

Love Made Me An Inventor: The Story of Maggy Barankitse, Humanitarian, Genocide Survivor, Citizen without Borders
by David Toole
Orbis Books

Britain’s Greatest Private Detective: The Rise and Fall of Henry Slater
by Nell Darby
Pen and Sword True Crime

William Phipps and the Diving Bell Bubble: Sunken Treasure, Witches and the Route to Empire
by Leon Hopkins
Pen and Sword History

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life
by William Roy and Sylvain Dorange
Life Drawn

Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim “Joe” Fortes
by Ruby Smith Diaz
Arsenal Pulp Press

The Legend of Albert Jacka
by Peter FitzSimons
Hachette Australia

Oscar Wilde’s Crucifix: A Biographical Experiment (Oscar Wilde, Florence Balcombe, and Bram Stoker)
by Maarten Asscher
Four Winds Press

Kusama: Polka Dot Queen (Yayoi Kusama)
by Simon Elliott
SelfMadeHero

The Aviator: The Life and Music of Steve Morse
by Adrian Jarvis
Wymer UK

Critical Lives: Christopher Isherwood
by Jake Poller
Reaktion Books

The Georgian ‘Establishment’: Seen Through the Life and Trials of Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough
by James Hobson
Pen and Sword History

Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth (Edith Farnsworth and Mies van der Rohe)
by Nora Wendl
3 Fields Books