- Madeleine Albright – Madam Secretary: A Memoir
- Joan Biskupic – Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
- Karen Deyoung – Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
- Kirstin Downey – The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
- Tony Dungy & Nathan Whitaker – Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life
- Jonathan Eig – Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season
- Henry Ossian Flipper – Black Frontiersman: The Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point
- Mary S. Lovell – The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
- Hermione Lee – Edith Wharton
- Nancy Mace & MaryJane Ross – In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel
- Barack Obama – Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Frank E. Petersen & Alfred J. Phelps – Into the Tiger’s Jaw: America’s First Black Marine Aviator
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President
- Juan Williams – Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary









