- A torch kept lit, great lives of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley, Jr. ; edited by James Rosen
- Zero fail, the rise and fall of the Secret Service, Carol Leonnig
- Cuba libre!, Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history, Tony Perrottet
- Fortress America, how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy, Elaine Tyler May
- Reagan, an American journey, Bob Spitz
- The moralist, Woodrow Wilson and the world he made, Patricia O'Toole
- The age of Eisenhower, America and the world in the 1950s, William I. Hitchcock
- The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager
- Playing with fire, the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
- Inside the Dream Palace, the life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, Sherill Tippins
- The Black Hand, the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history, Stephan Talty
- The life of Saul Bellow, to fame and fortune, 1915-1964, Zachary Leader
- Scarface and the untouchable, Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago, Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz
- Sticky fingers, the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine, Joe Hagan
- Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the sixties, Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring
- Five days in November, Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin
- One nation under gold, how one precious metal has dominated the American imagination for four centuries, James Ledbetter
- American serial killers, the epidemic years 1950-2000, Peter Vronsky
- The doomsday machine, confessions of a nuclear war planner, Daniel Ellsberg
- If then, how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future, Jill Lepore
- I invented the modern age, the rise of Henry Ford, Richard Snow
- Fault Lines, A History of the United States Since 1974, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
- Three days at the brink, FDR's daring gamble to win World War II, Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney
- A cruel and shocking act, the secret history of the Kennedy assassination, Philip Shenon ; maps by Gene Thorp
- The big fella, Babe Ruth and the world he created, Jane Leavy
- Marvel Comics, the untold story, Sean Howe
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- Fifty years of 60 minutes, the inside story of television's most influential news broadcast, Jeff Fager
- Theodore Roosevelt for the defense, the courtroom battle to save his legacy, Dan Abrams and David Fisher
- Shoot for the moon, the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11, James Donovan
- When Reagan sent in the Marines, the invasion of Lebanon, Patrick J. Sloyan
- Bunny Mellon, the life of an American style legend, Meryl Gordon
- First, Sandra Day O'Connor, Evan Thomas
- The fall of Richard Nixon, a reporter remembers Watergate, Tom Brokaw
- The ghosts of Eden Park, the bootleg king, the women who pursued him, and the murder that shocked jazz- age America, Karen Abbott
- American moonshot, John F. Kennedy and the great space race, Douglas Brinkley
- Killing the mob, the fight against organized crime in America, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
- The girl on the velvet swing, sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century, Simon Baatz
- Agent 110, an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII, Scott Miller
- Wallis in love, the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy, Andrew Morton
- Truevine, two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South, Beth Macy
- The flight, Charles Lindbergh's daring and immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing, Dan Hampton
- The world's fastest man, the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero, Michael Kranish
- The color of law, a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Bobby Kennedy, a raging spirit, Chris Matthews
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- Bag man : the wild crimes, audacious cover-up & spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the White House, Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, a political life, Robert Dallek
- The heavens might crack, the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Jason Sokol
- The man who ran Washington, the life and times of James A. Baker III, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser