- Caroline, Little House, revisited, Sarah Miller, with the full approval of Little House Heritage Trust
- The white queen, Philippa Gregory
- American duchess, a novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Karen Harper
- The Revenant, a novel of revenge, Michael Punke
- Beautiful exiles, Meg Waite Clayton
- My imaginary Mary, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
- Watch us dance, Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
- A most English princess, a novel of Queen Victoria's daughter, Clare McHugh
- The invention of everything else, Samantha Hunt
- Hanging Mary, by Susan Higginbotham
- Once upon a wardrobe, Patti Callahan
- Diva, Daisy Goodwin
- Becoming Muhammad Ali, a novel, James Patterson and Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
- Girl with a pearl earring, Tracy Chevalier
- Soldier boy, Keely Hutton ; afterword by Ricky Richard Anywar
- The princess, Wendy Holden
- A royal affair, Allison Montclair
- Joan, a novel, Katherine J. Chen
- The other Einstein, Marie Benedict
- Prisoner B-3087, by Alan Gratz
- The tattooist of Auschwitz, a novel, Heather Morris
- The confessions of young Nero, Margaret George
- Secret engineer, how Emily Roebling built the Brooklyn Bridge, Rachel Dougherty
- Riviera gold, a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King
- Crow Mary, Kathleen Grissom
- Undiscovered country, a novel inspired by the lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, Kelly O'Connor McNees
- Time and chance, Sharon Kay Penman
- Genghis, lords of the bow, Conn Iggulden
- Doc, a novel, Mary Doria Russell
- The eagle and the viper, a novel of historical suspense, Loren D. Estleman
- Romancing Miss Brontë, a novel, Juliet Gael
- Stolen beauty, a novel, Laurie Lico Albanese
- Learning to see, a novel of Dorothea Lange, the woman who revealed the real America, Elise Hooper
- The Arctic fury, a novel, Greer Macallister
- Fates and traitors, a novel of John Wilkes Booth, Jennifer Chiaverini
- The mystery of Mrs. Christie, a novel, Marie Benedict
- The odyssey of Geronimo, twenty-three years a prisoner of war : a novel, W. Michael Farmer
- Song of a captive bird, a novel, Jasmin Darznik
- The hunger, Alma Katsu