- Myrna Loy, the only good girl in Hollywood, Emily W. Leider
- Socrates, a man for our times, Paul Johnson
- A tangled web, Mata Hari : dancer, Courtesan, spy, Mary W. Craig
- George Sand, Martine Reid ; translated with an introduction by Gretchen van Slyke
- Jackie, Janet & Lee, the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill, J. Randy Taraborrelli
- Joy, poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis, Abigail Santamaria
- Commander, the life and exploits of Britain's greatest frigate captain, Stephen Taylor
- The life of William Faulkner, Carl Rollyson
- Diana Vreeland, the modern woman :the Bazaar years 1936 - 1962, edited by Alexander Vreeland
- Hard choices, Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Sargent's women, four lives behind the canvas, Donna M. Lucey
- A full life, reflections at ninety, Jimmy Carter
- Empress of fashion, a life of Diana Vreeland, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
- Eliza Hamilton, the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton, Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Thornton Wilder, a life, Penelope Niven ; with a foreword by Edward Albee
- Mary Boleyn, the mistress of kings, Alison Weir
- Hitler's hangman, the life of Heydrich, Robert Gerwarth
- Sempre Susan, a memoir of Susan Sontag, Sigrid Nunez
- Clementine, the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill, Sonia Purnell
- H.G. Wells, another kind of life, Michael Sherborne
- Daughters of the Winter Queen, four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots, Nancy Goldstone
- Lady Byron & her daughters, Julia Markus
- Hitler and Stalin, the tyrants and the Second World War, Laurence Rees
- Stephen Crane, a Life of Fire, Paul Sorrentino
- Jerusalem, the biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Queens of the conquest, England's medieval queens, Alison Weir, Book one
- The unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American icon, introduction & text by Antonia Felix ; foreword by Mimi Leder ; photo editor, Christopher Measom
- Charlotte Bronte, a fiery heart, Claire Harman
- Franco, a personal and political biography, Stanley G. Payne and Jesus Palacios
- Lady at the O.K. Corral, the true story of Josephine Marcus Earp, Ann Kirschner
- Young Elizabeth, the making of the queen, Kate Wililams
- Isabella of Castile, Europe's first great queen, Giles Tremlett
- Louis D. Brandeis, a life, Melvin I. Urofsky
- A royal experiment, the private life of King George III, Janice Hadlow
- Victoria, the heart and mind of a young queen : [official companion to the Masterpiece presentation on PBS], foreword by Daisy Goodwin ; written by Helen Rappaport
- Queen of spies, Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master, Paddy Hayes
- Eva Braun, life with Hitler, Heike B. Görtemaker ; translated from the German by Damion Searls
- A life in letters, P.G. Wodehouse ; edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
- Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family, [editors, Constance Novis, Helen Fewster]
- Jack London, an American life, Earle Labor
- My love story, Tina Turner ; with Deborah Davis and Dominik Wichmann
- An emergency in slow motion, the inner life of Diane Arbus, William Todd Schultz
- Princess Margaret, a life of contrasts, Christopher Warwick
- Margaret Thatcher, the authorized biography : from Grantham to the Falklands, Charles Moore
- Franklin & Washington, the founding partnership, Edward J. Larson
- The Duchess Countess, the woman who scandalized eighteenth-century London, Catherine Ostler
- John Huston, courage and art, Jeffrey Meyers
- Day of honey, a memoir of food, love, and war, Annia Ciezadlo
- Quantum man, Richard Feynman's life in science, Lawrence M. Krauss
- Entrepreneurs who changed history