- Alice Sparberg Alexiou–The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City that Rose With It
- Nick Bunker–Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World, a New History
- Molly Caldwell Crosby–Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
- Bruce Cumings–The Korean War
- Eric Jay Dolin–Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
- Peter Marshal–Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
- Danielle McGuire–At the Dark End of the Street
- G. J. Meyer–The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty
- Juliet Nicolson–The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
- Graham Robb–Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
- Judith Stein–Pivotal Decade
- Brian Thornton–Book of Bastards: 101 Worst Scoundrels and Scandals from the World of Politics and Power
- Bruce Watson–Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy









