Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller
by Paul Cantor
(Abrams Press)

The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s 1938–1940
by Susan Ronald
(Griffin)

Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
by Jerry Enzler
(University of Oklahoma Press)

James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters
by Bill Schelly
(Fantagraphics)

Francis Bonaparte, A Military Life: An American View of Napoleon II
by Tom Vance
(CreateSpace)

Benedict XVI, A Life: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965
by Peter Seewald
(Bloomsbury Continuum)

Benedict XVI, A Life: Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966–The Present
by Peter Seewald
(Bloomsbury Continuum)

American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
by Richard K. Rein
(Island Press)

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
by Dan Charnas
(Picador Paper)

Houdini’s Fabulous Magic
by Walter B. Gibson and Morris N. Young
(Vine Leaves Press)

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
by Rosemary Sullivan
(Harper Perennial)

Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick
by Nathen Amin
(Amberley Publishing)

Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, From Godzilla to Kurosawa
by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
(Wesleyan University Press)

Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii
by Måns Mosesson
(Mobius)

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
(Chicago Review Press)

Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy
by Philip Freeman
(Pegasus Books)

Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
by Elizabeth Alice Honig
(Reaktion Books)

Bronx Epitaph: How Lou Gehrig’s Luckiest Man Speech Defined the Yankee Legend
by Steven K. Wagner
(State University of New York Press)

Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America
by Stephen Mansfield
(Thomas Nelson)

The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
by Mike Sielski
(St. Martin’s Griffin)

The Family Roe: An American Story
by Joshua Prager
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Hitler’s Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe
by Martha Schad
(The History Press)

An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
by Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus
(Turner)

The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard
by Marc Eliot
(Hachette Books)

T. H. White: A Biography
by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Gillian Davies
(Handheld Classics)

Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered
by Lynda Telford
(Pen and Sword Military)

Hermann and Albert Goering: The Nazi and the Renegade
by James Wyllie
(The History Press)

Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway’s Wyoming Summers with Pauline
by Darla Worden
(Chicago Review Press)

Becoming Human, Becoming Divine: The Christian Life According to Blessed Columba Marmion
by Columba McCann
(Veritas)

Georgia O’Keeffe
by Lisa Mintz Messinger
(Thames & Hudson)

In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father
by Derek Baxter
(Sourcebooks)

Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun
by Charles J. Shields
(Holt Paperbacks)

Monarchs: Bud Metheny, Old Dominion Baseball, and the Foundational 1960s Championship Teams
by Jay Ingram
(Mascot Books)

Clara M. Thompson’s Professional Evolution and Legacy
by Ann D’Ercole
(Routledge)

Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy
by Elizabeth M. Cizmar
(Routledge)

Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky’s Forgotten Ballad Collector
by Elizabeth DiSavino
(The University Press of Kentucky)

Tex Morton: From Australian Yodeler to International Showman
by Andrew K. Smith
(University of Tennessee Press)

Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
by Al Sharpton
(Hanover Square Press)

Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby (Ida Pender)
by Frank Prem
(Wild Arancini Press)

Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
by Marc Andrus
(Parallax Press)

Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography
by Jeremy Gray
(Princeton University Press)

Fierce Love: The Life of Mary O’Malley
by Bernard Adams
(The Lilliput Press)

The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
by Jeffrey Orens
(Pegasus Books)

Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy
by Lyndal Roper
(Princeton University Press)

Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay
by Paul Diamond
(Massey University Press)

Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells
by Quentin Thomas Wells
(Utah State University Press)

Winston Churchill and the Art of Leadership: How Winston Changed the World
by William Nester
(Frontline Books)

Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy (John Stonehouse)
by Julian Hayes
(Robinson)

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design
by Stephen Bayley and Roger Mavity
(Constable)

Britain’s Forgotten Traitor: The Life and Death of a Nazi Spy (Ed Perkins)
by Ed Perkins
(Amberley Publishing)

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

Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait (Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence)
by Vera Brittain
(Routledge)

Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J. W. Newland
by Elisa deCourcy and Martyn Jolly
(Routledge)

Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden and America, 1898–1945
by Walter A. Jackson
(Routledge Studies in Modern History)

To Catch A King: Charles II’s Great Escape
by Charles Spencer
(William Collins)