And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by Jon Meacham
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
by Stacy Schiff
(Back Bay Books)

Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger
by Stephen H. Grant
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique
by Sydney Ladensohn Stern
(Open Road Media)

The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money (Father Patrick Ryan)
by Jennifer O’Leary
(Merrion Press)

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
by Lucy Worsley
(Pegasus Crime)

All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work
by Hayley Campbell
(St. Martin’s Griffin)

Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain
by Charles Leerhsen
(Simon & Schuster)

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
by Andrea Wulf
(Vintage)

Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of A Generation
by Steven Hyden
(Hachette Books)

George Michael: A Life
by James Gavin
(Abrams Press)

Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture (Catherine Dior)
by Justine Picardie
(Picador)

Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America
by Dennis Herrick
(University of New Mexico Press)

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
by Alex Rowson
(Willam Collins)

Crassus: The First Tycoon
by Peter Stothard
(Yale University Press)

The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
by James Eli Shiffer
(University of Minnesota Press)

In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz
by Philip Taubman
(Stanford University Press)

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
by Keiron Pim
(Granta Books)

Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time
by Jennifer Shahade
(Hodder)

This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
by Nate Schweber
(Mariner Books)

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth
by Francine Prose
(Yale University Press)

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
by Cody Keenan
(Mariner Books)

The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight For America
by Glenn Ellmers
(Encounter Books)

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
by Gene Andrew Jarrett
(Princeton University Press)

Scientist E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
by Richard Rhodes
(Vintage)

The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel
by Lloyd Clark
(Atlantic Monthly Press)

The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism
by Adi Mahalel
(State University of New York Press)

I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters
by David Masciotra
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son
by Mary F. Ehrlander
(Bison Books)

Albert Finney: A Well-Seasoned Life
by Gabriel Hershman
(The History Press)

‘You Dirty Old Man!’: The Authorised Biography of Wilfrid Brambell
by David Clayton
(The History Press)

Broke, Not Broken: Homer Maxey’s Texas Bank War
by Broadus Spivey and Jesse Sublett
(Texas Tech University Press)

Go West Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt’s Great Loop Tour of 1903
by Michael F. Blake
(TwoDot)

Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary
by Donald Smith
(University of Toronto Press)

Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle
by Geoff Andrews
(Bloomsbury Academic)