The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
by Claire Tomalin
(Penguin Press)

Tony Hillerman: A Life
by James McGrath Morris
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater
by Alexis Greene
(Applause)

Richard Congreve: Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire
by Matthew Wilson
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis
by Gabrielle Selz
(University of California Press)

A Mighty Force: Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health
by Marcia Biederman
(Prometheus)

A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
by Matteo Bortolini
(Princeton University Press)

Orwell’s Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
(Viking)

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present
by Adrienne Keene
(Ten Speed Press)

Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
by Laurie Woolever
(Ecco)

Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
(W.W. Norton)

Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes
by Albert Samaha
(Riverhead Books)

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney
(Custom House)

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
by Paul Auster
(Henry Holt & Co.)

The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller
by Donna-Claire Chesman
(Permuted Press)

Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
by Laurence Learner
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy (Jewish Lives series)
by James Traub
(Yale University Press)

In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
by Tom Vitale
(Hachette Books)

Spies and Traitors: Kim Philby, James Angleton and the Friendship and Betrayal that Would Shape MI6, the CIA and the Cold War
by Michael Holzman
(Pegasus Books)

Harry Styles, Adore You: The Illustrated Biography
by Carolyn McHugh
(Sona Books)

Elizabeth II: A Queen for Our Time
by Chris Jackson
(Rizzoli)

Nina Simone’s Gum
by Warren Ellis
(Faber & Faber)

Evenings With Led Zeppelin: The Complete Concert Chronicle (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Dave Lewis and Mike Tremaglio
(Omnibus Press)

The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
by Kati Marton
(Simon & Schuster)

Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
by Carole Angier
(Bloomsbury Publishing)

Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker
by Bill Milkowski
(Backbeat)

Oscar Wilde: A Life
by Matthew Sturgis
(Knopf)

King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King
by Daniel de Vise
(Grove Press)

Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge
by Joseph McBride
(Columbia University Press)

Little Book of Christian Louboutin: The Story of the Iconic Shoe Designer
by Darla-Jane Gilroy
(Welbeck Publishing)

Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
by David B. Nelson
(Chicago Review Press)

The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood
by Tristram Hunt
(Metropolitan Books)

Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
by Marta McDowell
(Timber Press)

Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny
by Donald T. Critchlow
(Regnery History)

Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men
by Phil Rosenzweig
(Empire State Editions)

The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
by David Cay Johnston
(Simon & Schuster)

Offshore High: Steve and Doris Colgate and Offshore Sailing School
by Herb McCormick
(Seapoint Books)

Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence
by Daniel M. Grimley
(Reaktion Books)

The Last Diving Horse in America: Rescuing Gamal and Other Animals—Lessons in Living and Loving
by Cynthia A. Branigan
(Pantheon)

The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940–1945
by Frank McDonough
(St. Martin’s Press)

Holy Men and Women of the Order of Malta: The Canonized and Beatified from the Twelfth to the Twenty-first Century
by Richard Wolff
(TAN Books)

Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.
by Paul Stillwell
(Naval Institute Press)

Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life
by Debra Bricker Balken
(University of Chicago Press)

The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
by Catherine Prendergast
(Dutton)

Becoming Dracula: The Early Years of Bela Lugosi (Volume Two)
by Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger
(BearManor Media)

The Shoemaker’s Son: The Life of a Holocaust Resister
by Laura Beth Bakst
(Amsterdam Publishers)

The Presidency of George W. Bush
by John Robert Greene
(University Press of Kansas)

A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan
by Richard Balls
(Omnibus Press)

The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein
by Franny Moyle
(Abrams Press)

The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama
by Claude A. Clegg III
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement (Jewish Lives series)
by Julian E. Zelizer
(Yale University Press)

Born in the Life: Gene Borrello
by Louis Romano
(BookBaby)

Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football
by John Scott and Joseph Harroz Jr.
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Founding an Empire
by Matthew Lewis
(Amberley Publishing)

At Road’s End: Robert Lee’s Extraordinary Journey to Forgiving a Heinous Murder
by David Wayne Brown and Phoebe A. Roaf
(Sartoris Literary Group)

Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
by Linda H. Davis
(Turner)

The Who: Much Too Much
by Mike Evans
(Palazzo Editions)

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
by Bruce A. Ragsdale
(Belknap Press)

Leonard Cohen: On a Wire
by Philippe Girard
(Drawn and Quarterly)

The Golden Boy of Centre Court: How Bjorn Borg Conquered Wimbledon
by Graham Denton
(Pitch Publishing)

Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff
by Stanley Nelson
(LSU Press)

Smyslov, Bronstein, Geller, Taimanov and Averbakh: A Chess Multibiography with 220 Games
by Andrew Soltis
(McFarland)

The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution
by Timothy Tackett
(Oxford University Press)

Little Book of Schiaparelli: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House
by Emma Baxter-Wright
(Welbeck)

The Religious Journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Duty, God, and Country
by Jack M. Holl
(Eerdmans)

Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
by Zara Stone
(Prometheus)

The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five
by Tom Roston
(Abrams Press)

Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History
by Jonathan Trigg
(Amberley Publishing)

Dabo’s World: The Life and Career of Coach Swinney and the Rise of Clemson Football
by Lars Anderson
(Grand Central Publishing)

The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim: From Aviation and Rocketry to the Creation of an Art Dynasty
by Dirk Smillie
(Pegasus Books)

We Could Be . . . : Bowie and His Heroes
by Tom Hagler
(Cassell)

Kim and Jim: Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War
by Michael Holzman
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

A Rose with Broken Thorns: Esperanza’s Story: Redemption from Human Trafficking
by Mary D. Wasson
(Innovo Publishing LLC)

Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood
by Gavin Edwards
(Hachette Books)

The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
by Edward Shawcross
(Basic Books)

Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
by Frank E. Vandiver
(Texas A&M University Press)

William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of England: The Glorious Revolution
by Brian Best
(Frontline Books)

The Great Benny Leonard: Mama’s Boy to World Champ
by John Jarrett
(Pitch Publishing)

Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical
by Walter Reid
(Birlinn)

Colin Chapman: Inside the Innovator
by Karl Ludvigsen
(Evro Publishing Limited)

El rey al desnudo / The King in the Nude (Spanish Edition)
by Ernesto Ekaizer
(Ediciones B)

Complex Presents Dummy Boy: Tekashi 6ix9ine and The Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods
by Shawn Setaro
(Kingston Imperial)

Sisters in Art: The Biography of Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton
by Wendy Van Wyck Good
(West Margin Press)

The Last Prince of Bengal: A Family’s Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback
by Lynn Innes
(The Westbourne Press)

Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright
by Richard B. McCaslin
(University of North Texas Press)

Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life (California Lives)
by Cynthia L. Haven
(Heyday)

Christian Dior: Destiny, The Authorized Biography
by Marie-France Pochna
(Flammarion)

Glorious Beef: The LaFrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry
by Pat LaFrieda and Cecilia Molinari
(Ecco)

The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld
by Peter Edwards and Luis Najera
(Random House Canada)

Normandie Niemen: Quinze destins de Pilotes
by François Robinard
(Heimdal)

War Lord: Khalifa Haftar and the Future of Libya
by John Oakes
(Amberley Publishing)

King Al: How Sharpton Took the Throne
by Ron Howell
(Empire State Editions)

Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
by Mohamad Jebara
(St. Martin’s Essentials)

H. D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism
by Susan McCabe
(Oxford University Press)

World War Sikh: Memoirs of an Indian Cavalryman 1913–45
by Rana Chhina
(Kashi House)

Guido Goldman: Transatlantic Bridge Builder
by Martin Klingst
(Berghahn Books)

Generations of Reason: A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England
by Joan L. Richards
(Yale University Press)

Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World
by William A. Link
(The University of North Carolina Press)

Accidental Olympian: Colin Oates, a Judo Journey
by Howard Oates
(Pitch Publishing)

The Importance of Being Poirot
by Jeremy Black
(St. Augustines Press)

This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation
by James M. Odato
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers
by Jeffrey Sussman
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

David Hockney
by James Cahill
(Laurence King Publishing)

Caravaggio: Una vida sagrada y profana
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
(Taurus)

Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace
by Conor Lenihan
(Merrion Press)

Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Black Literary and Cultural Expressions)
by Bola Dauda
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare
by Jayme Stayer
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Two Worlds: The Story of an Edinburgh Doctor
by Peter Hoffmann
(Independently published)

Obachan: A Young Girl’s Struggle for Freedom in Twentieth-Century Japan
by Tani Hanes
(Independently published)