- Shirley Chisholm, catalyst for change, 1926-2005, Barbara Winslow
- On the house, a Washington memoir, John Boehner former speaker of the House of Representatives
- How to be a (young) antiracist, by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
- Short nights of the Shadow Catcher, the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis, Timothy Egan
- Girl in black and white, the story of Mary Mildred Williams and the abolition movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens
- Hanged!, Mary Surratt & the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, Sarah Miller
- Heavy, an American memoir, by Kiese Laymon
- Author in chief, the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote, Craig Fehrman
- From a whisper to a rallying cry, the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement, Paula Yoo
- Troublemaker for justice, the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the march on Washington, Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long
- Of all tribes, American Indians and Alcatraz, Joseph Bruchac
- A nation of nations, a great American immigration story, Tom Gjelten
- The broken constitution, Lincoln, slavery, and the refounding of America, Noah Feldman
- In meat we trust, an unexpected history of carnivore America, Maureen Ogle
- The restless wave, good times, just causes, great fights, and other appreciations, John McCain and Mark Salter
- President McKinley, architect of the American century, Robert W. Merry
- The manicurist's daughter, a memoir, Susan Lieu
- Speaking for myself, faith, freedom, and the fight of our lives inside the Trump White House, Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Judah Benjamin, counselor to the confederacy, James Traub
- Washington, a history of our national city, Tom Lewis
- Republic of detours, how the New Deal paid broke writers to rediscover America, Scott Borchert
- A history of me, written by Adrea Theodore ; illustrated by Erin K. Robinson
- For colored girls who have considered politics, Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore with Veronica Chambers
- A cruel and shocking act, the secret history of the Kennedy assassination, Philip Shenon ; maps by Gene Thorp
- Founding martyr, the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero, Christian Di Spigna
- Woke racism, how a new religion has betrayed Black America, John McWhorter
- A nation without borders, the United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910, Steven Hahn
- The bone and sinew of the land, America's forgotten black pioneers & the struggle for equality, Anna-Lisa Cox
- The cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783, Joseph J. Ellis
- It was all a lie, how the Republican Party became Donald Trump, Stuart Stevens
- Flee north, a forgotten hero and the fight for freedom in slavery's borderland, Scott Shane
- The bitter end, the 2020 presidential campaign and the challenge to American democracy, John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch, and Lynn Vavreck
- The storm is here, an American crucible, Luke Mogelson
- When evil lived in Laurel, the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie
- Until I am free, Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America, Keisha N. Blain
- An American story, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Dare Coulter
- The ledger and the chain, how domestic slave traders shaped America, Joshua D. Rothman
- The three mothers, how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation, Anna Malaika Tubbs
- Reagan, the life, H.W. Brands
- A worse place than hell, how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation, John Matteson
- Vanished, the sixty-year search for the missing men of World War II, Wil S. Hylton
- The joy of politics, surviving cancer, a campaign, a pandemic, an insurrection, and life's other unexpected curveballs, Amy Klobuchar
- The heartbeat of Wounded Knee, life in Native America, David Treuer ; adapted by Sheila Keenan
- Our first civil war, patriots and loyalists in the American Revolution, H.W. Brands
- A family sketch and other private writings, Mark Twain, Livy Clemens, Susy Clemens ; edited by Benjamin Griffin of the Mark Twain Project
- Red paint, the ancestral autobiography of a Coast Salish punk, Sasha taqwšäblu LaPointe
- Unexampled courage, the blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, Richard Gergel
- White rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide, Carol Anderson
- Stitch by stitch, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly sews her way to freedom, by Connie Schofield-Morrison ; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
- The NRA, the unauthorized history, Frank Smyth