Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller 
by Alec Nevala-Lee 
(Dey Street Books) 

The Life of Mark Akenside: The Breakthrough to Modernity 
by Barbara C. Morden 
(McNidder and Grace)  

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

The Life of Louis XVI 
by John Hardman 
(Yale University Press) 

Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played 
by Jeff Fletcher 
(Diversion Books) 

Putin 
by Philip Short  
(Holt Paperbacks) 

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova 
by Leo Damrosch 
(Yale University Press) 

The Child Is The Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori 
by Cristina De Stefano 
(Other Press) 

A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse 
by Daniel A. Gagnon 
(Westholme Publishing) 

Prince: The Man and His Music 
by Matt Thorne 
(Agate Bolden) 

Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power 
by Clare Hunter 
(Sceptre) 

American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune 
by Greg Steinmetz 
(Simon & Schuster) 

Dream Derby: The Myth and Legend of Black Gold (the racehorse)
by Avalyn Hunter 
(The University Press of Kentucky)  

Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex 
by Eric Laursen 
(AK Press) 

No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno 
by Charlie Allison 
(PM Press)  

CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries 
by John L. Williams 
(Constable) 

Bessborough: Three Women. Three Decades. Three Stories of Courage. 
by Deirdre Finnerty 
(Hachette Ireland) 

Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady 
by Mary C. Brennan 
(University Press of Kansas)  

Theda Bara: Her Career, Life and Legend 
by Roy Liebman 
(McFarland) 

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom 
by Andrew Nagorski 
(Simon & Schuster) 

Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master 
by Gwenda Young 
(The University Press of Kentucky)  

21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era (Alfred Thayer Mahan) 
by Benjamin F. Armstrong 
(Naval Institute Press)  

John George Nicolay: The Man in Lincoln’s Shadow 
by Allen Carden and Thomas J. Ebert 
(University of Tennessee Press) 

The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad 
by Mari K. Eder 
(Sourcebooks) 

The Accidental Star: The Life and Films of Warner Baxter 
by Dan Van Neste 
(BearManor Media) 

José Raúl Capablanca: A Chess Biography 
by Miguel A. Sánchez 
(McFarland) 

The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and The Revolution in Mental Health Care 
by John Foot 
(Verso) 

Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England 
by Nino Strachey 
(Atria) 

Cast A Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas 
by Lyndsy Spence 
(The History Press)  

Built On A Lie: The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and The Fate of Middle England’s Money 
by Owen Walker 
(Penguin Business)