Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age 
by Debby Applegate 
(Anchor) 

The Young H. G. Wells 
by Claire Tomalin 
(Penguin) 

Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor 
by Andrew Lownie 
(Pegasus Books) 

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson 
by Jeff Pearlman 
(HarperLuxe) 

The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch 
by Paddy Manning 
(Sutherland House Books) 

Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler 
by Richard Koloda 
(Jawbone Press) 

Here Forever: The Timeless Impact of John Smale on Procter & Gamble, General Motors and the Purpose and Practice of Business 
by Rob Garver 
(BookBaby) 

Peter Green: The Biography 
by Martin Celmis 
(Omnibus Press) 

At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes 
by Jean E. Schuler 
(Texas Christian University Press) 

The Transcendentalists and Their World 
by Robert A. Gross 
(Picador) 

The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America 
by Noah Feldman 
(Picador) 

The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine’s Daughters 
by Rachel Trethewey 
(St. Martin’s Griffin) 

And It Was Beautiful: Marcelo Bielsa and the Rebirth of Leeds United 
by Phil Hay 
(Seven Dials) 

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel 
by Stephen Budiansky 
(W. W. Norton & Company) 

False Self: The Life of Masud Khan 
by Linda Hopkins 
(Confer Books) 

Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer 
by Christopher S. Celenza 
(Reaktion Books) 

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane 
by Paul Auster 
(Holt Paperbacks) 

The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London (Elizabeth Chudleigh) 
by Catherine Ostler 
(Atria) 

Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams 
by Joseph J. Ellis  
(W. W. Norton & Company) 

Maradona: The Boy. The Rebel. The God. 
by Guillem Balague 
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 

Cokie: A Life Well Lived 
by Steven V. Roberts 
(Harper Perennial) 

From Slave to State Legislator: John W. E. Thomas, Illinois’ First African American Lawmaker 
by David A. Joens 
(Southern Illinois University Press) 

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires 
by Sara Cockerill 
(Amberley Publishing) 

Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity 
by Dmytro Stus 
(ibidem Press) 

America’s First Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil Rights 
by Jerry Mikorenda 
(Lyons Press) 

Snowdon: The Biography (Lord Snowdon) 
by Anne de Courcy 
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 

Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places 
by Gerald F. Reid 
(University of Oklahoma Press) 

Aristotle: His Life and School 
by Carlo Natali 
(Princeton University Press) 

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

Shackleton’s Dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica 
by Stephen Haddelsey 
(The History Press) 

All That We Say is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation 
by Ian Gill 
(Douglas & McIntyre) 

Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s First Female Filmmaking Team 
by Mandy Sayer 
(NewSouth) 

Sally Rand: American Sex Symbol 
by William Hazelgrove 
(Lyons Press) 

Charles C. Painter: The Life of an Indian Reform Advocate 
by Valerie Sherer Mathes 
(University of Oklahoma Press) 

Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier 
by David Jenkins 
(Melbourne University Press) 

Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World 
by Glenn Stout 
(Mariner Books)