- Human heart, cosmic heart, a doctor's quest to understand, treat, and prevent cardiovascular disease, Thomas Cowan, MD
- Shoot like a girl, one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front, Mary Jennings Hegar
- The greatest generation speaks, letters and reflections, Tom Brokaw
- The soldiers' story, Vietnam in their own words : an illustrated edition, with historic images from the National Archives, Ron Steinman
- Blood and germs, the Civil War battle against wounds and disease, by Gail Jarrow
- The Moth presents Occasional magic, true stories of defying the impossible, edited by Catherine Burns
- My father's brain, life in the shadow of Alzheimer's, Sandeep Jauhar
- Sunken roads, three generations after D-Day, directed by Charlotte Juergens
- Hunter killer, inside America's unmanned air war, Lt. Col. T. Mark McCurley with Kevin Maurer
- Just eat, one reporter's quest for a weight-loss regimen that works, Barry Estabrook
- The warriors of Anbar, the Marines who crushed Al Qaeda : the greatest untold story of the Iraq War, Ed Darack ; foreword by Colonel James E. Donnellan, USMC (Ret.)
- Ordinary heroes, a memoir of 9/11, Joseph Pfeifer
- Heart, a history, Sandeep Jauhar
- Faith still moves mountains, miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer, Harris Faulkner
- Caught in the revolution, Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge, Helen Rappaport
- A wing and a prayer, the "Bloody 100th" bomb group of the US Eighth Air Force in action over Europe in World War II, Harry H. Crosby
- Do no harm, stories of life, death, and brain surgery, Henry Marsh
- Always remember your name, a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz, Andra and Tatiana Bucci ; translated by Ann Goldstein
- Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
- Clara's war, one girl's story of survival, Clara Kramer with Stephen Glantz
- The many faces of home birth, 25 honest, firsthand accounts from parents around the world, Shantel Silbernagel
- War doctor, surgery on the front line, David Nott ; introduction by Henry Marsh ; [afterword by Eleanor Nott]
- The movement made us, a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride, David J. Dennis Jr., in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr
- Six walks, in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, Ben Shattuck
- Hiroshima diary, the journal of a Japanese physician, August 6-September 30, 1945, by Michihiko Hachiya ; translated and edited by Warner Wells ; with a new foreword by John W. Dower
- Tank rider, into the Reich with the Red Army, Evgeni Bessonov ; with a new afterword by Dennis Showalter
- The light of days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos, Judy Batalion
- The journalist, life and loss in America's secret war, Jerry A. Rose and Lucy Rose Fischer
- Hard times, an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression, Studs Terkel
- When can we go back to America?, voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, Susan H. Kamei ; foreword by Secretary Norman Y. Mineta
- The mirror test, America at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, J. Kael Weston
- No turning back, life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria, Rania Abouzeid
- A writer at war, a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945, Vasily Grossman ; edited and translated by Antony Beevor & Luba Vinogradova
- In search of the color purple, the story of an American masterpiece, Salamishah Tillet
- Hunting the truth, memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
- It's my country too, women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan, edited by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow ; foreword by Kayla Williams
- Above the Reich, deadly dogfights, blistering bombing raids, and other war stories from the greatest American air heroes of World War II, in their own words, Colin Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis
- Never call me a hero, a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway, N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, with Timothy and Laura Orr
- Coffin corner boys, one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France, Carole Engle Avriett with Capt. George W. Starks, WWII B-17 Pilot, the Mighty Eighth ; foreword by Lt. Gen. E.G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., former Commander Eighth Air Force
- Every man a hero, a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war, Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice
- A place outside the law, forgotten voices from Guantanamo, Peter Jan Honigsberg
- Arrival stories, women share their experiences of becoming mothers, collected by Amy Schumer and Christy Turlington Burns
- The dichotomy of leadership, balancing the challenges of extreme ownership to lead and win, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- The light of days, the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos, Judy Batalion
- The last seven months of Anne Frank, Willy Lindwer ; translated from Dutch by Alison Meersschaert
- In the company of heroes, the inspiring stories of Medal of Honor recipients from America's longest wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, James Kitfield
- The house by the lake, the true story of a house, its history, and the four families who made it home, written by Thomas Harding; illustrated Britta Teckentrup
- Bravo company, an Afghanistan deployment and its aftermath, Ben Kesling
- The nurses, a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital, Alexandra Robbins
- The Monitor chronicles, one sailor's account : today's campaign to recover the Civil War wreck, the Mariners' Museum ; edited by William Marvel