- The Friday Night Club, Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, M.J. Rose
- Beneath a scarlet sky, Mark Sullivan
- I, Eliza Hamilton, Susan Holloway Scott
- The tiger queens, the women of Genghis Khan, Stephanie Thornton
- Prophecy, a thriller, S.J. Parris
- A well-behaved woman, a novel of the Vanderbilts, Therese Anne Fowler
- The lacuna, a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
- The postcard, Anne Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover
- Finding Dorothy, a novel, Elizabeth Letts
- Blood & beauty, The Borgias, a novel, Sarah Dunant
- Behave, Andromeda Romano-Lax
- Leading men, Christopher Castellani
- What carries you, a novel in the form of a memoir, Richard E. Welch III
- Play on like Ludwig van Beethoven, Nick Esposito ; illustrated by Ricardo Tokumoto
- Annie and the wolves, Andromeda Romano-Lax
- The hidden diary of Marie Antoinette, Carolly Erickson
- The velveteen daughter, a novel, Laurel Davis Huber
- The constant princess, Philippa Gregory
- The cloister, a novel, James Carroll
- A sign of her own, Sarah Marsh
- The widow spy, a novel, Megan Campisi
- The marriage portrait, Maggie O'Farrell
- Attila, the gathering of the storm, William Napier
- The poison bed, Elizabeth Fremantle
- Beneath a scarlet sky, a novel, Mark Sullivan
- The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- The last Tudor, Philippa Gregory
- Leaving Van Gogh, a novel, Carol Wallace
- West of sunset, Stewart O'Nan
- The Kid, Ron Hansen
- The residence, a novel, Andrew Pyper
- Strangers in the night, a novel of Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner, Heather Webb
- Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen, a novel, Alison Weir
- Girl in disguise, Greer Macallister
- The lost journals of Sacajewea, a novel, Debra Magpie Earling
- Queen of exiles, a novel, Vanessa Riley
- The queen's rival, in the court of Henry VIII, Diane Haeger
- The girls in the picture, Melanie Benjamin
- The other Einstein, a novel, Marie Benedict
- Georgia, a novel of Georgia O'Keefe, Dawn Tripp
- Mrs. Nixon, a novelist imagines a life, Ann Beattie
- The animal gazer, Edgardo Franzosini ; translated by Michael F. Moore
- The Pelton papers, a novel, Mari Coates
- The Manhattan girls, a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends, Gill Paul
- Flight of the wild swan, Melissa Pritchard
- Genghis, birth of an empire, Conn Iggulden
- The secret diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, a novel, Paterson Joseph
- Big Red, a novel starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, Jerome Charyn
- Emily's house, Amy Belding Brown
- The splendor before the dark, a novel of the Emperor Nero, Margaret George