Dickens: A Biography
Fred Kaplan
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
Heather Hendershot
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Nicholas Ostler
Double Reverse
Tim Green
Cole Porter: A Biography
William McBrien
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
Kenneth Silverman
The Thousand
Kevin Guilfoile