| Don Revie | Don Revie: The Definitive Biography by Christopher Evans | Dec 21 |
| John Milton | Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton by Joe Moshenska | Dec 7 |
| Gretta Garbo | Garbo by Robert Gottlieb | Dec 7 |
| René Magritte | Magritte: A Life by Alexander Danchev | Nov 30 |
| Bette Davis | Bette Davis: Black and White by Julia Stern | Nov 26 |
| Winston Churchill | Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones | Nov 23 |
| George Platt Lynes | George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye by Allen Ellenzweig | Nov 23 |
| Picasso | A Life of Picasso The Minotaur Years (Vol 4) by John Richardson | Nov 16 |
| Muhammad | Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait by Mohamad Jebara | Nov 16 |
| Elizabeth Hardwick | A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis | Nov 16 |
| Sarah Churchill | Wayward Daughter: Sarah Churchill and Her World by Miranda Brooke | Nov 15 |
| E. O. Wilson | Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes | Nov 9 |
| Catherine Dior | Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie | Nov 9 |
| King George III | The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts | Nov 9 |
| Benedict XVI | Benedict XVI: A Life (Vol 2) by Peter Seewald | Nov 9 |
| Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz | Nov 9 |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg | Nov 4 |
| Polly Adler | Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate | Nov 2 |
| Cokie Roberts | Cokie: A Life Well Lived by Steven Roberts | Nov 2 |
| H G Wells | The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin | Nov 2 |
| Princess Mary | Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford | Nov 1 |
| Stephen Crane | Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster | Oct 26 |
| Winston Churchill | Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Oct 26 |
| Robert Bellah | A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Mattteo Bortolini | Oct 19 |
| Charles Addams | Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life by Linda Davis | Oct 19 |
| Willis A. Lee Jr. | Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. by Paul Stillwell | Oct 15 |
| Tony Hillerman | Tony Hillerman: A Life by James Morris | Oct 14 |
| Franklin Graham | Franklin Porter Graham: Southern Liberal by William Link | Oct 14 |
| Adolf Hitler | The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 (Vol 2) by Frank McDonough | Oct 12 |
| Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis | Oct 12 |
| Harold Rosenberg | Harold Rosenberg: A Critic’s Life by Debra Bricker Balken | Oct 6 |
| B. B. King | King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise | Oct 5 |
| Harry Guggenheim | The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim by Dirk Smillie | Oct 5 |
| Hans Holbein | The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle | Oct 5 |
| W. G. Sebald | Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier | Oct 5 |
| Anthony Bourdain | Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever | Sept 28 |
| Robt E Lee | Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen Guelzo | Sept 28 |
| B.H. Roberts | B.H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena by John Stillito | Sept 27 |
| Vanderbilt family | Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe | Sept 21 |
| George Rickey | George Rickey: A Life in Balance by Belinda Rathbone | Sept 14 |
| Howard Kazanjian | Howard Kazanjian: A Producer’s Life by J. W. Rinzler | Sept 14 |
| Oliver Cromwell | The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton | Sept 7 |
| Fannie Lou Hamer | Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson | Sept 1 |
| Joseph P. Kennedy | Tempting All the Gods: Joseph P. Kennedy by Jane Karoline Vieth | Sept 1 |
| Queen Eliz II | The Queen by Matthew Dennison | Sept 1 |
| Lafayette | Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan | Aug 24 |
| George Hearst | George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age by Matthew Bernstein | Aug 19 |
| D.H. Lawrence | Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson | Aug 17 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson | Aug 17 |
| Prince Philip | Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth | Aug 17 |
| Nico | You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike | Aug 10 |
| Joseph P. Kennedy | The Ambassador:Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James by Susan Ronald | Aug 3 |
| Mark Catesby | Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby by Henrietta McBurney | Aug 3 |
| Genl John Rawlins | General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man by Allen Ottens | Aug 3 |
| Lowitja O’Donoghue | Lowitja: The Authorised Biography by Stuart Rintoul | Aug 1 |
| Fernando Pessoa | Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith | July 20 |
| Edgar Hoover | The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover by Paul Letersky | July 13 |
| Ivor Gurney | Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy | July 13 |
| Barbara Hepworth | Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton | July 13 |
| Lise Meitner | The Amazing Story of Lise Meitner by Andrew Norman | July 8 |
| Clive Bell | Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography by Mark Hussey | July 6 |
| Al Hirschfeld | Hirschfeld: The Biography by Ellen Stern | July 6 |
| Jayne Mansfield | Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It by Eve Golden | June 29 |
| James Otis & Mercy Warren | Minds and Hearts: The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren by Jeffrey Hacker | June 25 |
| Etta Place | Etta Place: Riding Into History with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by D.J. Herda | June 23 |
| John Craxton | John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins | June 22 |
| Sydney Taylor | From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family by June Cummins | June 22 |
| Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Paternalism’s Daughter by Deborah Symonds | June 15 |
| Ian Fleming | The World is Not Enough: A Biography of Ian Fleming by Oliver Buckton | June 12 |
| Robert Kennedy | Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White by Patricia Sullivan | June 8 |
| Ethel Rosenberg | Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba | June 8 |
| John Marshall Harlan | The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan by Peter Canellos | June 8 |
| Paulo Freire | Paulo Freire: A Philisophical Biography by Walter Omar Kohan | June 3 |
| C.S. Lewis | The Making of C.S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist by Harry Lee Poe | June 1 |
| Horace Stoneham | Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham by Steven Treder | June 1 |
| Charlotte Delbo | Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed by Ghislaine Dunant | May 28 |
| Mary Wortley Montagu | The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett | May 26 |
| Joseph Ritson | Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson by Stephen Basdeo | May 26 |
| Lucas Alaman | A Life Together: Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853 by Eric Van Young | May 25 |
| Vito Genovese | The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss by Anthony DeStefano | May 25 |
| John Browning | The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Man Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein | May 25 |
| Thomas Sowell | Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley | May 25 |
| Norman Jewison | Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life by Ira Wells | May 18 |
| Joseph Smith | Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom by Spencer McBride | May 11 |
| Kurt Gödel | Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky | May 11 |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Ann McCutchan | May 11 |
| Henrietta Szold | To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold by Dvora Hacohen | May 11 |
| Karl Barth | Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict by Christiane Tietz | May 4 |
| George Berkeley | George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life by Tom Jones | May 4 |
| Nikolay Myaskovsky | Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and his Times by Patrick Zuk | May 3 |
| John Omohundro | Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star by Matthew Kerns | May 1 |
| Genl David Gregg | Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg by Edward Longacre | May 1 |
| Jim Bridger | Trailblazer of the American West by Jerry Enzler | Apr 29 |
| Fred Reines | Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino by Leonard Cole | Apr 22 |
| Clarence Darrow | Darrow’s Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America’s Most Famous Trial Lawyer by Nelson Johnson | Apr 20 |
| Nancy Pelosi | Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power by Susan Page | Apr 20 |
| Georgina Weldon | Georgina Weldon: The Fearless Life of a Victorian Celebrity by Joanna Martin | Apr 6 |
| Louis Lomax | The Life and Times of Louis Lomax by Thomas Aiello | Apr 2 |
| Genl John Slough | John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General by Richard Miller | Apr 1 |
| Winston & Randolph Churchill | Churchill & Son by Josh Ireland | Mar 30 |
| Philip Roth | Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel | Mar 29 |
| James Hughes Callahan | Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors: James Hughes Callahan by Thomas O. McDonald | Mar 25 |
| Nipsey Hussle | The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle by Rob Kenner | Mar 23 |
| Edward Said | Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan | Mar 23 |
| Eugene H. Peterson | A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson by Winn Collier | Mar 23 |
| Francis Bacon | Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens | Mar 23 |
| Salvador Dali | The Dali Legacy: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy by Christopher Heath Brown | Mar 23 |
| Edward Said | Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan | Mar 23 |
| Steve Marriott | All or Nothing: The Story of Steve Marriott by Simon Spence | Mar 18 |
| Louis Duportail | Washington’s Engineer: Louis Duportail and the Creation of an Army Corps by Norman Desmarais | Mar 16 |
| Lady Bird Johnson | Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig | Mar 16 |
| Sir Francis Drake | In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and Perilous Birth of the British Empire by Laurence Bergreen | Mar 16 |
| Herman Ehrenberg | Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg by James Crisp | Mar 15 |
| Katherine Parr | Katherine Parr: Opportunist, Queen, Reformer by Don Matzat | Mar 15 |
| Fitz John Porter | Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter by William Marvel | Mar 8 |
| Thomas Sankara | Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa by Brian Peterson | Mar 2 |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine | Mar 2 |
Russell Lee
| Russell Lee: A Photographer’s Life and Legacy by Mary Jane Appel | Mar 2 |
| R.C. Sproul | R.C. Sproul: A Life by Stephen Nichols | Mar 2 |
| John Marshall | John Marshall: The Final Founder by Robert Strauss | Mar 1 |
| William Butterfield | The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times by Nicholas Olsberg | Feb 28 |
| Jane Street | The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver by Jane Little Botkin | Feb 25 |
| Tom Stoppard | Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee | Feb 23 |
| Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg | A Kabbalist in Montreal: The Life and Times of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg by Ira Robinson | Feb 23 |
| Ivan Illich | Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by David Cayley | Feb 18 |
| John Calhoun | Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder | Feb 16 |
| Stan Lee | True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman | Feb 16 |
| William Parker | Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker by Cisco Bradley | Feb 12 |
| Vera Rubin | Vera Rubin: A Life by Jacqueline and Simon Mitton | Feb 11 |
| Bugsy Siegel | Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson | Feb 9 |
| Rosa Bonheur | Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt | Feb 9 |
| Robert Maxwell | Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell by John Preston | Feb 9 |
| Margaret Murray Washington | Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Sheena Harris | Feb 4 |
| Mike Nichols | Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris | Feb 2 |
| Sybille Bedford | Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings | Feb 2 |
| Bob Gersony | The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony by Robert Kaplan | Jan 26 |
| Ida Wells | Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster | Jan 26 |
Herman Melville
| Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life by John Bryant | Jan 19 |
| Lucian Freud | The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011 by William Feaver | Jan 19 |
| Isaac Newton | The World of Isaac Newton by Toni Mount | Jan 15 |
| Graham Greene | The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene | Jan 12 |
| Rabbi Louis Jacobs | Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs by Harry Freedman | Jan 12 |
| Ben Fletcher | Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole | Jan 12 |
