Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky (W. W. Norton)
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg (Simon and Schuster)
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger (Knopf)
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles (Penguin Press)
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot (Liveright)
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America by James Traub (Basic Books)
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading (Mariner)