The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World (Brunhild and Fredegund)
by Shelley Puhak
(Bloomsbury Publishing)

Riverman: An American Odyssey (Dick Conant)
by Ben McGrath
(Vintage)

Perón: A Biography (Juan Perón)
by Joseph A. Page
(Open Road Media)

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
by Audrey Clare Farley
(Grand Central Publishing)

A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
by Damon Root
(Potomac Books)

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
by Robert Zaretsky
(University of Chicago Press)

Growing Up Getty: The Story of America’s Most Unconventional Dynasty
by James Reginato
(Gallery Books)

Nick Lucas: The Crooning Troubadour and His Guitar
by Michael R. Pitts
(McFarland)

Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever
by Dan Good
(Abrams Press)

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
by Mark Rozzo
(Ecco)

Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
by Laura Thompson
(St. Martin’s Griffin)

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies (Louis Le Prince)
by Paul Fischer
(Simon & Schuster)

The Loft Generation, From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942–2011
by Edith Schloss
(Picador)

The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
by Robert Silbernagel
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press)

Lincoln’s Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War
by Carl J. Guarneri
(University Press of Kansas)

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
by Richard Bradford
(Bloomsbury Caravel)

Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife, and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
(Grand Central Publishing)

The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
by Horace Busby
(University of Texas Press)

The Idealist: Jack Trice and the Battle for A Forgotten Football Legacy
by Jonathan Gelber
(Triumph Books)

Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania
by Blendi Fevziu
(Bloomsbury Academic)

If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, “King of the Caribbean Pirates”
by Richard Sanders
(Skyhorse)

Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography
by Helen Ennis
(4th Estate)

A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
by Edward H. Miller
(University of Chicago Press)

True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
by Kostya Kennedy
(St. Martin’s Griffin)

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix
by Howard Markel
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son
by Paul Dickson
(University of Nebraska Press)

Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown
by Jennifer Kelly
(The University Press of Kentucky)

Adventuress: The Life and Loves of Lucy, Lady Houston
by Teresa Crompton
(The History Press)

Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism
by Richard Drake
(Cornell University Press)

Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
by Michael Meyer
(Mariner Books)

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

Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965
by Cherisse Jones-Branch
(University of Arkansas Press)

The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866
by Mary McNeill
(Merrion Press)

Mary Ann Byas-Drake: Destined and Determined to Be A Nurse
by Willis L. Drake
(Palmetto Publishing)

No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing
by Joe Bonomo
(University of Nebraska Press)

Lefty O’Doul: Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador
by Dennis Snelling
(University of Nebraska Press)

Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
by Timothy M. Gay
(University of Nebraska Press)

Keanu Reeves, Most Triumphant: The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon
by Alex Pappademas
(Abrams Image)

Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past (Dag Aabye)
by Brett Popplewell
(Collins)

William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
by Bain Attwood
(Melbourne University Press)

Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo
by Peter Richardson
(University of California Press)

S. D. Burman: The Prince Musician
by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal
(Vintage Books)