The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and The Cost of Genius
by Patchen Barss
(Basic Books)

Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women across a Century (Marguerite Lindsley, Gertrude Stein, Teresa Urre, Cathay Williams, Mary Lou Williams, Kay Foster, Lois Foster, and Julia Lee)
by Robin Foster
(Bison Book/University of Nebraska Press)

Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
by Nigel Hamilton
(Little, Brown and Company)

Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of An American Icon
by Martin Klotz
(Westholme Publishing)

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

The Making of Sylvia Plath
by Carl Rollyson
(University Press of Mississippi)

Carson The Magnificent
by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas
(Simon & Schuster)

Didion and Babitz (Joan Didion and Eve Babitz)
by Lili Anolik
(Scribner)

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
by Rob Sheffield
(Dey Street Books)

Henry VIII and The Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty
by Adam Pennington
(Pen and Sword History)

Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
by Paul Kidby
(Harper)

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn
by Christopher Cox
(Simon & Schuster)

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
by Jean Strouse
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
by Peter Ames Carlin
(Doubleday)

Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
by Karen M. Dunak
(NYU Press)

The Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor
by Nathen Amin
(Amberley Publishing)

Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign
by Anne Somerset
(Knopf)

Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
by Douglas K. Miller
(Liveright)

Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie
by Lesley-Ann Jones
(Hachette Books)

High And Rising: A Book About De La Soul
by Marcus J. Moore
(Dey Street Books)

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
by Paul French
(St. Martin’s Press)

Stuart Spouses: A Compendium of Consorts from James I of Scotland to Queen Anne of Great Britain
by Heather R. Darsie
(Pen and Sword History)

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and The Prague Kindertransport
by Barbara Winton
(Pegasus Books)

Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer, eds.
(DelMonico Books/Morgan Library & Museum)

Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography
by Joseph Luzzi
(Princeton University Press)

Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
by Yosie Levine
(The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words
by Michael Owen
(Liveright)

The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry
by Anabel Loyd
(Haus Publishing)

Queen Victoria’s Favourite Granddaughter: Princess Victoria of Hesse and By Rhine, the Most Consequential Royal You Never Knew
by Ilana D. Miller
(Pen and Sword History)

Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power
by Edward Champlin
(Princeton University Press)

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
(Harper)

Andrew Sansom: A Life in Conservation
by Laura Raun
(Texas A&M University Press)

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Rituals of Memory, Migration, and Cultural Space
by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
(Chicano Studies Research Center)

Edward de Bono: Love Laterally
by Sarah Tucker
(Supernova Books)

Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean
by Jason Colavito
(Applause)

Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly
by Jeff Apter
(Citadel)

The Lady and the Beast: The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley
by Deja Whitehouse
(Oxford University Press)

Norman Lear: His Life and Times
by Tripp Whetsell
(Applause)

Andy Warhol’s Mother: The Woman Behind the Artist
by Elaine Rusinko
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund
by Caitlin McGurk
(Fantagraphics)

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
by Richard Munson
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science
by Nicholas Nicastro
(Reaktion Books)

The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family
by Obbie Tyler Todd
(LSU Press)

Tubby: Raymond O. Barton and the US Army, 1889–1963
by Stephen A. Bourque
(University of North Texas Press)

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
by Paula Byrne
(William Collins)

Audrey Hepburn
by Michele Botton
(NBM Publishing)

Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives
by Simon Hornblower
(Cambridge University Press)

Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie Soap
by Greg Shaw
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Hemingway’s Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing
by Nancy W. Sindelar
(Lyons Press)

Tilak: The Empire’s Biggest Enemy
by Vaibhav Purandare
(Vintage Books)

Grażyna Bacewicz
by Joanna Sendlak
(Equinox Publishing)

Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science
by Stephen Case
(University of Pittsburgh Press)

The Real Sinéad O’Connor
by Ariane Sherine
(White Owl)

Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism: Darkness and Dawn (1848–1849)
by Thomas Gaiton Marullo
(Cornell University Press)

The World and Work of Father John J. Burke: A Mystic in Action
by Douglas J. Slawson
(St Augustine’s Press)

Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson
(Monkfish Book Publishing)

Back Into Focus: The Real Story of Robert Capa’s D-Day
by Charles R. Herrick
(Casemate)

Richard III
by Andrea McMillin
(Pen and Sword History)

Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman: A Biography
by Jeffrey A. Fortin
(University of Massachusetts Press)

William Penn: A Radical, Conservative Quaker
by J. William Frost
(Penn State University Press)

Leibniz In His World: The Making of A Savant
by Audrey Borowski
(Princeton University Press)

Mary Kitagawa: A Nikkei Canadian Life
by Karen M. Inouye
(Stanford University Press)

Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail
by Frances Levine
(University Press of Kansas)

Hattusili, The Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire: Partner and Rival of Ramesses the Great
by Trevor Bryce
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates
by Mark A. Neels
(Southern Illinois University Press)

The Hangman’s Scrapbook: The Life and Executions of John Ellis
by Neil R. Storey
(Pen and Sword History)

The Creators of Winnie the Pooh: A. A. Milne and E. H. Shephard
by Andrew Norman
(White Owl)

Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar
by Anand Teltumbde
(India Viking)

Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel Prize
by David C. Clary
(World Scientific Publishing Company)

The House of Barnes: The Man, The Collection, The Controversy
by Neil L. Rudenstine
(The American Philosophical Society Press)

Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History
by Toyin Falola
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Thomas Bartholin, Physician and Anatomist: From Unicorns to Lymph Vessels
by Jesper Brandt Andersen
(Aarhus Universitetsforlag)

Sir John A. Macdonald: And The Apocalyptic Year 1885
by Patrice Dutil
(Sutherland House Books)

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

The Churchill Deception: The True Story of Peter Churchill in World War II
by Peter Jacobs
(Greenhill Books)

Jack Shadbolt: In His Words
by Susan Mertens
(Figure 1 Publishing)

The Life of William Collins, Poet
by Mary Margaret Stewart
(Clemson University Press)

General Wladyslaw Sikorski, 1881–1943
by Evan McGilvray
(Pen and Sword Military)

Billy Graham
by Catherine Mackenzie
(Christian Focus)

The Life & Career of Rebecca Strong: The Woman Who Revolutionised Nurses’ Training
by Judith Vallely
(Pen and Sword History)

The Dark Side of Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie, the Man Who Couldn’t Grow Up
by Olivia Camozzi
(White Owl)

The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South Visionary
by Andrew R. Parnell
(University of Georgia Press)

“Prohibition Is Here to Stay”: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America
by Jason S. Lantzer
(University of Notre Dame Press)