- All the Sad Young Literary Men, by Keith Gessen
- Amateur Spy, The, by Dan Fesperman
- American Insurrection, An: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962, by William Doyle
- Arms Maker of Berlin, The, by Dan Fesperman
- Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, by Richard Rhodes
- Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, An, by Brock Clarke
- Artists in Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts, by Joseph Horowitz
- Associates, The: Four Capitalists Who Created California, by Richard Rayner
- As Time Goes By: The Life of Ingrid Bergman, by Laurence Leamer
- Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times, by Willie Brown
- Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics, by Bill Boyarsky
- Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams -- The Early Years, 1903-1940, by Gary Giddins
- Byron: Life and Legend, by Fiona MacCarthy
- Cagney, by John McCabe
- Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World, by Donald R. Howard
- City of Thieves, by David Benioff
- Coal River, by Michael Shnayerson
- Commoner, The, by John Burnham Schwartz
- Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, The, edited by Robert Kimmel and Linda Emmet
- Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
- Crossers, by Philip Caputo
- Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, by Ed Sikov
- Dead Hand, A, by Paul Theroux
- Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil, by Wallace Stegner
- Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje
- Doghead, by Morten Ramsland
- Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, by Paula Kamen
- Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwarz
- First Human, The: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, by Ann Gibbons
- Flamenco Academy, The, by Sarah Bird
- Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, by Brad Gooch
- Garbo: A Biography, by Barry Paris
- Garden of Last Days, The, by Andre Dubus III
- Gargoyle, The, by Andrew Davidson
- Gentlemen of the Road, by Michael Chabon
- Goldwyn: A Biography, by A. Scott Berg
- Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx, by Sefan Kanfer
- "Have You Seen...?" A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, by David Thomson
- Historian, The, by Elizabeth Kostova
- Home, by Marilynne Robinson
- House That George Built, The: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, by Wilfred Sheed
- How Fiction Works, by James Wood
- How Perfect Is That, by Sarah Bird
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
- Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway, by Foster Hirsch
- Murder in the Latin Quarter, by Cara Black
- Murder in the Rue de Paradis, by Cara Black
- My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson, by Alfred Habegger
- Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ordinary Thunderstorms, by William Boyd
- Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, by Carole Seymour-Jones
- Palace Council, by Stephen L. Carter
- Peace, by Richard Bausch
- Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris
- Portrait of Jennifer: A Biography of Jennifer Jones, by Edward Z. Epstein
- Prayer Room, The, by Shanthi Sekaran
- Prisoner of Guantánamo, The, by Dan Fesperman
- Ralph Ellison: A Biography, by Arnold Rampersad
- Romance on Three Legs, A: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano, by Katie Hafner
- Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, by David Michaelis
- Shakespeare's Wife, by Germaine Greer
- Song Yet Sung, by James McBride
- Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, by Paul Hendrickson
- Stardust Melodies: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs, by Will Friedwald
- Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael, by Richard M. Sudhalter
- Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, by Peter Biskind
- Stone Fields, The: Love and Death in the Balkans, by Courtney Angela Brkic
- Sunnyside, by Glen David Gold
- Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley
- Voyage That Never Ends, The: Malcolm Lowry in His Own Words, edited by Michael Hoffman
- Wallace Stegner and the American West, by Philip L. Fradkin
- W.B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II -- The Arch-Poet, by R.F. Foster
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt
- Bausch, Richard, Peace
- Benioff, David, City of Thieves
- Berg, A. Scott, Goldwyn: A Biography
- Bird, Sarah, The Flamenco Academy
- Bird, Sarah, How Perfect Is That
- Biskind, Peter, Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America
- Black, Cara, Murder in the Latin Quarter
- Black, Cara, Murder in the Rue de Paradis
- Boyarsky, Bill, Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics
- Boyd, William, Ordinary Thunderstorms
- Brkic, Courtney Angela, The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans
- Brown, Willie, Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
- Caputo, Philip, Crossers
- Carter, Stephen L., Palace Council
- Chabon, Michael, Gentlemen of the Road
- Clarke, Brock, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
- Davidson, Andrew, The Gargoyle
- Doyle, William, An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
- Dubus III, Andre, The Garden of Last Days
- Epstein, Edward Z., Portrait of Jennifer: A Biography of Jennifer Jones
- Fesperman, Dan, The Amateur Spy
- Fesperman, Dan, The Arms Maker of Berlin
- Fesperman, Dan, The Prisoner of Guantánamo
- Fradkin, Philip L., Wallace Stegner and the American West
- Foster, R.F., W.B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II -- The Arch-Poet
- Friedwald, Will, Stardust Melodies: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
- Gessen, Keith, All the Sad Young Literary Men
- Gibbons, Ann, The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
- Giddins, Gary, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams -- The Early Years, 1903-1940
- Gold, Glen David, Sunnyside
- Gooch, Brad, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
- Greenblatt, Stephen, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
- Greer, Germaine, Shakespeare's Wife
- Habegger, Alfred, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- Hafner, Katie, A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
- Harris, Mark, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
- Hendrickson, Paul, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
- Hirsch, Foster, Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway
- Hoffman, Michael, ed., The Voyage That Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry in His Own Words
- Horowitz, Joseph, Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts
- Howard, Donald R., Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- Kamen, Paula, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
- Kanfer, Stefan, Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
- Kimmel, Robert, and Linda Emmet, eds., The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
- Kostova, Elizabeth, The Historian
- Leamer, Laurence, As Time Goes By: The Life of Ingrid Bergman
- MacCarthy, Fiona, Byron: Life and Legend
- McBride, James, Song Yet Sung
- McCabe, John, Cagney
- Michaelis, David, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
- Ondaatje, Michael, Divisadero
- Paris, Barry, Garbo: A Biography
- Pollan, Michael, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
- Rampersad, Arnold, Ralph Ellison: A Biography
- Ramsland, Morten, Doghead
- Rayner, Richard, The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
- Rhodes, Richard, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- Robinson, Marilynne, Home
- Schwartz, John Burnham, The Commoner
- Schwarz, Evan I., Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
- Sekaran, Shanthi, The Prayer Room
- Seymour-Jones, Carole, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot
- Shapiro, James, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
- Sheed, Wilfred, The House That George Built: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
- Shnayerson, Michael, Coal River
- Sikov, Ed, Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
- Smiley, Jane, Ten Days in the Hills
- Stegner, Wallace, Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil
- Sudhalter, Richard M., Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
- Theroux, Paul, A Dead Hand
- Thomson, David, "Have You Seen...?" A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
- Wood, James, How Fiction Works
