Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
by David Maraniss
(Simon & Schuster)

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
by Patrick Radden Keefe
(Anchor)

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I (Harold Gillies)
by Lindsey Fitzharris
(Picador)

Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
by Stephen C. Taysom
(University of Utah Press)

The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham
by Ron Shelton
(Vintage)

DeFord Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music
by David C. Morton
(University of Illinois Press)

Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original (Rickey Henderson)
by Howard Bryant
(Mariner Books)

Hitler at Home
by Despina Stratigakos
(Yale University Press)

Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People
by Russell A. Flinchum and Ralph O. Meyer
(SUNY Press)

Katherine Parr: Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: A Theological Perspective
by Don Matzat
(Amberley Publishing)

The House of Kennedy
by James Patterson
(Grand Central Publishing)

William at 40: The Making of a Modern Monarch
by Robert Jobson
(Ad Lib Publishers)

The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V. C. Andrews Story
by Andrew Neiderman
(Gallery Books)

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
by Robert L. O’Connell
(Harper Paperbacks)

Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England
by Steven Gunn
(Oxford University Press)

Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia
by Paul J. Heer
(Cornell University Press)

The Making of a Terrorist: Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution
by Jeff Horn
(Oxford University Press)

India’s First Diplomat: V. S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism
by Vineet Thakur
(Bristol University Press)

First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
by Ken Ellingwood
(Pegasus Books)

Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II
by Robert Child
(Osprey Publishing)

Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions
by Coryne Hall
(The History Press)

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism
by Leigh Eric Schmidt
(Princeton University Press)