- The book of longings, a novel, Sue Monk Kidd
- Confessions of an imaginary friend, a memoir by Jacques Papier, as told to Michelle Cuevas
- The magician, Colm Toibin
- Becoming Muhammad Ali, a novel, James Patterson and Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
- The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
- Beneath a scarlet sky, a novel, Mark Sullivan
- And they called it Camelot, a novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Stephanie Marie Thornton
- The marriage portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
- The Paris wife, a novel, Paula McLain
- Carnegie's Maid, Marie Benedict
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- I was Anastasia, a novel, Ariel Lawhon
- A tiny upward shove, Melissa Chadburn
- Sisters of night and fog, Erika Robuck
- Caleb's crossing, Geraldine Brooks
- The invisible woman, Erika Robuck
- Bronze drum, Phong Nguyen
- White houses, a novel, Amy Bloom
- Autumn Peltier, water warrior, written by Carole Lindstrom ; illustrated by Bridget George
- Girl in hyacinth blue, Susan Vreeland
- Defending Alice, a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties, Richard Stratton
- A piece of the world, a novel, Christina Baker Kline
- Flight of the sparrow, a novel of early America, by Amy Belding Brown
- Beautiful exiles, Meg Waite Clayton
- Z, a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler
- Hidden powers, Lise Meitner's call to science, Jeannine Atkins
- Madame Tussaud, a novel of the French revolution, Michelle Moran
- Mademoiselle Chanel, by C. W. Gortner
- Tad Lincoln's restless wriggle:, pandemonium and patience in the President's house, Beth Anderson ; illustrated by S. D. Schindler
- Caleb's crossing, a novel, Geraldine Brooks
- Learned by heart, Emma Donoghue
- The queen's fortune, a novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the dynasty that outlasted the empire, Allison Pataki
- Infamous, Ace Atkins
- The widows, Jess Montgomery
- Mademoiselle Boleyn, Robin Maxwell
- Her hidden genius, Marie Benedict
- The Romanov Empress, a novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, by C. W. Gortner
- The invention of wings, Sue Monk Kidd
- Blood & beauty, Sarah Dunant
- The postcard, Anne Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover
- Finding Dorothy, a novel, Elizabeth Letts
- A well-behaved woman, a novel of the Vanderbilts, Therese Anne Fowler
- Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen, a novel, Alison Weir
- Girl in disguise, Greer Macallister
- Liberation, Imogen Kealey
- Skyward, the story of female pilots in WWII
- A fine madness, a Christopher Marlowe murder mystery, Alan Judd
- I, Eliza Hamilton, Susan Holloway Scott
- The boy king, book three of the Seymour saga, Janet Wertman