- The World Remade, America in World War I, G.J. Meyer
- Reaganland, America's right turn, 1976-1980, Rick Perlstein
- The family Roe, an American story, Joshua Prager
- Playing with fire, the 1968 election and the transformation of American politics, Lawrence O'Donnell
- Act of war, Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo, Jack Cheevers
- A nation without borders, the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910, Steven Hahn
- Negroland, a memoir, Margo Jefferson
- Zero fail, the rise and fall of the Secret Service, Carol Leonnig
- Reagan, an American journey, Bob Spitz
- The age of Eisenhower, America and the world in the 1950s, William I. Hitchcock
- American serial killers, the epidemic years 1950-2000, Peter Vronsky
- Ambition, pragmatism, and party, a political biography of Gerald R. Ford, Scott Kaufman
- The doomsday machine, confessions of a nuclear war planner, Daniel Ellsberg
- The Nixon tapes, edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter
- The bill of the century, the epic battle for the Civil Rights Act, Clay Risen
- George Marshall, defender of the republic, David L. Roll
- Cuba libre!, Che, Fidel, and the improbable revolution that changed world history, Tony Perrottet
- Marvel Comics, the untold story, Sean Howe
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- The Black Hand, the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history, Stephan Talty
- Promised land, how the rise of the middle class transformed America, 1929-1968, David Stebenne
- Sticky fingers, the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine, Joe Hagan
- Rickey, the life and legend of an American original, Howard Bryant
- Injustices, the Supreme Court's history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, Ian Millhiser
- Accidental presidents, eight men who changed America, Jared Cohen
- Starkweather, the untold story of the killing spree that changed America, Harry N. MacLean
- Shoot for the moon, the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11, James Donovan
- America's great game, the CIA's secret Arabists and the shaping of the modern Middle East, Hugh Wilford
- 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
- Imbeciles, the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck, Adam Cohen
- Agent 110, an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII, Scott Miller
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- The man from the train, the solving of a century-old serial killer mystery, Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, a political life, Robert Dallek
- A call to arms, mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein
- The heavens might crack, the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Jason Sokol
- Someone to watch over me, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt and the tortured father who shaped her life, Eric Burns
- The year of fear, Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation, Joe Urschel
- Wallis in love, the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy, Andrew Morton
- First, Sandra Day O'Connor, Evan Thomas
- Destiny and power, the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham
- The fall of Richard Nixon, a reporter remembers Watergate, Tom Brokaw
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City, spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair, Margaret Creighton
- Mayday 1971, a White House at war, a revolt in the streets, and the untold history of America's biggest mass arrest, Lawrence Roberts
- Raven Rock, the story of the U.S. government's secret plan to save itself - while the rest of us die, Garrett M. Graff
- The color of law, a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Bobby Kennedy, a raging spirit, Chris Matthews
- Worldmaking, the art and science of American diplomacy, David Milne
- The last negroes at Harvard, the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever, Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth