- Beneath a scarlet sky, a novel, Mark Sullivan
- Becoming Muhammad Ali, a novel, James Patterson and Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
- And they called it Camelot, a novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Stephanie Marie Thornton
- The magician, Colm Toibin
- The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- 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 Paris wife, a novel, Paula McLain
- Never anyone but you, Rupert Thomson
- The marriage portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- Matrix, Lauren Groff
- Carnegie's Maid, Marie Benedict
- Caleb's crossing, Geraldine Brooks
- A tiny upward shove, Melissa Chadburn
- I was Anastasia, a novel, Ariel Lawhon
- Sisters of night and fog, Erika Robuck
- Tad Lincoln's restless wriggle:, pandemonium and patience in the President's house, Beth Anderson ; illustrated by S. D. Schindler
- Mademoiselle Chanel, by C. W. Gortner
- Madame Tussaud, a novel of the French revolution, Michelle Moran
- Infamous, Ace Atkins
- The queen's fortune, a novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the dynasty that outlasted the empire, Allison Pataki
- The widows, Jess Montgomery
- Mademoiselle Boleyn, Robin Maxwell
- Caleb's crossing, a novel, Geraldine Brooks
- 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
- Code name Hélène, a novel, by Ariel Lawhon
- Grasping mysteries, girls who loved math, Jeannine Atkins
- The invisible woman, Erika Robuck
- Monticello, a daughter and her father : a novel, Sally Cabot Gunning
- The Christie affair, Nina de Gramont
- The It girls, Karen Harper
- I, Claudius, from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54, by Robert Graves
- Ike and Kay, James MacManus
- Another side of paradise, Sally Koslow
- The tattooist of Auschwitz, a novel, Heather Morris
- Enchantress of numbers, a novel of Ada Lovelace, Jennifer Chiaverini
- Bronze drum, Phong Nguyen
- The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
- The spy, a novel, Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Zoë̈ Perry
- White houses, a novel, Amy Bloom
- Rodham, a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
- 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
- Beautiful exiles, Meg Waite Clayton
- Flight of the sparrow, a novel of early America, by Amy Belding Brown