The Life and Times of Betty Boop: The 100-Year History of an Animated Icon 
by Peter Benjaminson 
(Applause) 

Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China 
by Susan Blumberg-Kason 
(Post Hill Press) 

Seven Against Thebes: The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven 
by Stephen Dando-Collins 
(Turner) 

Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin 
by Danny Fingeroth 
(Chicago Review Press) 

Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar 
by Barbara D. Savage 
(Yale University Press) 

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, A Life in Fashion 
by Sunita Kumar Nair 
(Harry N. Abrams) 

Blood On Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty 
by Mandy Matney 
(William Morrow) 

Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality 
by Brian Kilmeade 
(Sentinel) 

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party 
by Jonathan Karl 
(Dutton) 

The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend 
by Rob Copeland 
(St. Martin’s Press) 

Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans 
by Kenneth Womack 
(Dey Street Books)  

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics 
by H. W. Brands 
(Doubleday) 

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South 
by Elizabeth Varon 
(Simon & Schuster)  

The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang 
by Tom Clavin 
(St. Martin’s Press)  

The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams 
by Adam Lazarus 
(Citadel) 

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative 
by Jennifer Burns 
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 

Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy 
by Brian Stelter 
(Atria)  

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations 
by Merilee Grindle 
(Belknap Press)  

Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather 
by Benjamin Taylor 
(Viking)  

Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent’s Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years 
by Peter J. Lapp with Kelly Kennedy 
(Post Hill Press)  

The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes on Trial 
by John Densmore 
(Akashic Books) 

The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story 
by Sam Wasson 
(Harper) 

Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds 
by Bulent Atalay 
(Pegasus Books)  

Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider’s Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business 
by Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill 
(St. Martin’s Press)  

Revolution: The New Sports Biography Revealing the Incredible True Story of Mikel Arteta’s Success at Arsenal Football Club 
by Charles Watts 
(HarperCollins) 

Nick Drake: The Life 
by Richard Morton Jack 
(Hachette Books)  

The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West 
by Timothy B. Smith 
(LSU Press)  

George Allen: A Football Life 
by Michael Richman 
(University of Nebraska Press)  

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture 
by Courtney Thorsson 
(Columbia University Press) 

The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
by Mark Chiusano 
(Atria) 

Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound 
by Dave Chisholm 
(Z2 Comics) 

Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe 
by Robert Morgan 
(LSU Press)  

Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals 
by Doug Melville 
(Atria) 

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire 
by Emma Southon 
(Harry N. Abrams) 

Tomlin: The Soul of a Football Coach (Mike Tomlin)  
by John Harris 
(Sports Publishing) 

White Knuckles: The Life of Gary Moore 
by Martin Power 
(Omnibus Press)  

The Brontës of Haworth Moor: How the Three Daughters of a Country Parson Became the Most Revolutionary Novelists of Their Time 
by Diane Browning 
(Rowman & Littlefield)

David Lynch: A Retrospective
by Ian Nathan  
(Palazzo Editions) 

Boston Ball: Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Gary Williams, and the Forgotten Cradle of Basketball Coaches
by Clayton Trutor 
(University of Nebraska Press) 

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science 
by Pamela Ryckman 
(Hachette Books) 

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Soul in the World 
by Dick Russell 
(Arcade) 

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles 
by Samuel Graydon 
(Scribner) 

Joe Cocker: With a LOT of Help From His Friends 
by Mark Bego 
(Yorkshire Publishing)  

Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing 
by Charles Scribner III 
(Lyons Press) 

Hitler’s Oil Broker: Thomas Brown, Harbinger of Worldwide Conflict 
by John W. M. Chapman 
(Pen and Sword Military) 

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan 
by Johnny Smith 
(Basic Books) 

The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
by Daniel Schulman 
(Knopf) 

Stanford Tuck, Hero of the Battle of Britain: The Life of the Great Fighter Ace 
by Helen Doe
(Grub Street Publishing) 

American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa (Richard Dorsey Mohun) 
by Arwen P. Mohun 
(University of Chicago Press) 

When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art 
by Matthew Algeo 
(Chicago Review Press)  

Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie 
by Hank Reineke 
(University of Oklahoma Press)  

The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City 
by Eric Criss 
(LSU Press)  

Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg 
by Pat Thomas 
(powerHouse Books)  

Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy 
by Richard Schoch 
(The Arden Shakespeare) 

American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother 
by Deanne Stillman 
(Melville House)  

The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I 
by Steven Veerapen 
(Birlinn) 

1932: FDR, Hoover and the Dawn of A New America 
by Scott Martelle 
(Citadel) 

Blurred Boundaries: A Martial Arts Legacy and the Shaping of Taiwan 
by Ze-han Hong 
(YMAA Publication Center)

Mamerto Gueritz: A Country Catholic 1823–1912 
by David Gunn-Johnson 
(Sacristy Press) 

Gatewood: Kentucky’s Uncommon Man (Louis Gatewood Galbraith) 
by Matthew Strandmark 
(University Press of Kentucky) 

Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World 
by Dave Lindorff 
(Prometheus) 

Another Day, Paul McCartney: Life Beyond the Beatles 
by Pete Chrisp 
(Sona Books) 

The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of LeBron 
by Valerie Babb 
(PublicAffairs) 

Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal 
by David K. Love 
(Prometheus) 

Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism 
by Anka Muhlstein 
(Other Press)  

Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and A Quest to Honor America’s First Black Generals 
by Doug Melville 
(Atria) 

A Way Of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning 
by Judith Zilczer 
(Phaidon Press) 

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and A New Story of the Kennedy Assassination 
by Mary Haverstick 
(Crown) 

How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family 
by Roman Dziarski 
(Cherry Orchard Books) 

Changing the Game: William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education 
by Nancy Weiss Malkiel 
(Princeton University Press)

Empire of Objects: Iurii Trifonov and the Material World of Soviet Culture 
by Benjamin M. Sutcliffe 
(University of Wisconsin Press) 

Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
by Paul Maher Jr. 
(Lyons Press)  

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class 
by Jacqueline Taylor 
(The MIT Press) 

The Explorer and The Journalist: The Extraordinary Story of Frederick Cook and Philip Gibbs 
by Richard Evans 
(The History Press) 

Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture 
by Karl Stock 
(Rebellion) 

The Girl in the Iron Lung: The Dianne O’Dell Story 
by Will Beyer 
(Acclaim Press) 

Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer: An Authorized Biography 
by Peter Bernstein 
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 

Queen Victoria After Albert: Her Life and Loves 
by Ilana D. Miller 
(Pen and Sword History) 

From Homesteader to Art Collector: The Life and Times of Jacob Greenberg 
by Robert Zaretsky 
(Rodin Books) 

Saving the Schindler’s Daughter: How Courageous Women Rescued an Orphaned Girl from French Concentration Camps 
by Douglas Boyd 
(Pen and Sword History) 

Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition―From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson 
by Donald R. Kirsch 
(Arcade) 

Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882–1906 
by Carla King 
(University College Dublin Press) 

The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History 
by Greg Robinson 
(University of Washington Press) 

Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman 
by David Ohana 
(Indiana University Press) 

Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism 
by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele 
(University of Chicago Press) 

The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought 
by Yaniv Feller 
(Cambridge University Press) 

Roots and Wings: Virginia Tanner’s Dance Life and Legacy 
by Mary-Elizabeth Manley with Robert Bruce Bennett and Mary Ann Lee 
(University of Utah Press)