David Nasaw: The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Jane Maas: Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the '60s and Beyond
Charles C. Mann: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Del Quentin Wilber: Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Emily Yellin: Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
Erik Larson: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin