- Terrible virtue, a novel, Ellen Feldman
- Beautiful exiles, Meg Waite Clayton
- The Paris bookseller, Kerri Maher
- The perilous adventures of the cowboy king, a novel of Teddy Roosevelt and his times, Jerome Charyn
- The lady of the lakes, the true love story of Sir Walter Scott, Josi S. Kilpack
- Figures in silk, Vanora Bennett
- The Tubman command, a novel, Elizabeth Cobbs
- The diabolical bones, Bella Ellis
- Someone always nearby, a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot, Susan Wittig Albert
- Mount Vernon love story, a novel of George and Martha Washington, Mary Higgins Clark
- No woman so fair, Gilbert Morris
- Z, a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler
- Saffire, a novel, Sigmund Brouwer
- The Swans of Fifth Avenue, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- Matrix, Lauren Groff
- Carnegie's Maid, Marie Benedict
- The chaperone, Laura Moriarty
- The secret bride, in the court of Henry VIII, Diane Haeger
- Queen by right, Anne Easter Smith
- Caleb's crossing, Geraldine Brooks
- Three sisters, three queens, Philippa Gregory
- A separate country, Robert Hicks
- White houses, a novel, Amy Bloom
- Quantum girl theory, a novel, Erin Kate Ryan
- Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
- Genghis, bones of the hills, Conn Iggulden
- Sisters of night and fog, Erika Robuck
- In the name of Salomé, a novel, Julia Alvarez
- Jane in love, a novel, Rachel Givney
- The acrobat, Edward J Delaney
- The traitor's wife, a novel : the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America, Allison Pataki
- The snow fell three graves deep, voices from the Donner party, Allan Wolf
- Leonora in the morning light, Michaela Carter
- The tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
- Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, a novel, Jennifer Chiaverini
- The royal governess, a novel of Queen Elizabeth II's childhood, Wendy Holden
- Katherine
- The Red Daughter, John Burnham Schwartz
- Double play, Robert B. Parker
- The dream lover, a novel, Elizabeth Berg
- Remarkable creatures, Tracy Chevalier
- Beneath a scarlet sky, a novel, Mark Sullivan
- The news from Paraguay, a novel, Lily Tuck
- And they called it Camelot, a novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Stephanie Marie Thornton
- The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, a novel, Melanie Benjamin
- Mrs. Engels, Gavin McCrea
- Conspirata, a novel of ancient Rome, Robert Harris
- Lukaku, from the playground to the pitch, Matt & Tom Oldfield
- Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper, Harriet Scott Chessman
- Water music, T. Coraghessan Boyle ; introduction by James R. Kincaid