- The fall of Richard Nixon, a reporter remembers Watergate, Tom Brokaw
- Acts of allegiance, a novel, Peter Cunningham
- Kill switch, the rise of the modern Senate and the crippling of American democracy, Adam Jentleson
- Putin, his downfall and Russia's coming crash, Richard Lourie
- The age of illusions, how America squandered its Cold War victory, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Trump revealed, an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power, Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher
- The presidency, Lori Cox Han
- How safe are we?, homeland security since 9/11, Janet Napolitano with Karen Breslau
- A watchman in the night, what I've seen over 50 years reporting on America, Cal Thomas
- Why we did it, a travelogue from the Republican road to Hell, Tim Miller
- Yes we (still) can, politics in the age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump, Dan Pfeiffer
- Let Trump be Trump, the inside story of his rise to the presidency, Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie
- A history of Hitler's empire, Thomas Childers
- Surveillance state, inside China's quest to launch a new era of social control, Josh Chin and Liza Lin
- The great rift, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era, James Mann
- Confidence man, the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America, Maggie Haberman
- When you grow up to vote,, by Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt) with illustrations by Manning de V. Lee
- Frontline, produced and directed by Jane McMullen ; a BBC Current Affairs production for WGBH/Frontline
- Hitler, downfall, 1939-1945, Volker Ullrich ; translated from the German by Jefferson Chase
- Modern political parties, by Lydia Bjornlund
- Rage, Bob Woodward
- Conspiracy, Andy Marino
- All the Kremlin's men, inside the court of Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Zygar ; [interpreted by Thoma Hodson ; Russian text edited by Karen Shainyan]
- The man who ran Washington, the life and times of James A. Baker III, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
- The making of Trump, produced by Peacock Productions for The History Channel ; producers, Emily M. Bernstein, Evan Cutler, Deborah Grau, Keith Greenberg
- Hamilton, building America, A&E Networks
- A hard rain, America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost, by Frye Gaillard
- American midnight, the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis, Adam Hochschild
- Lyndon Johnson and the American dream, Doris Kearns
- Reconstruction, America after the Civil War, a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films and WETA Washington, DC ; producer/directors, Stacey Holman, Rob Rapley, Cyndee Readdean ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- From Yao to Mao, 5000 years of Chinese history, Kenneth J. Hammond
- The middle kingdoms, a new history of Central Europe, Martyn Rady
- The cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, 1773-1783, Joseph J. Ellis
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell
- The arc of a covenant, the United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people, Walter Russell Mead
- How democracies die, Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
- Madam Secretary, The final season
- The accidental president, Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world, A.J. Baime
- George Marshall, defender of the republic, David L. Roll
- Fault lines in the constitution, the graphic novel, the framers, their fights, and the flaws that affect us today, written by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson ; art by Ally Shwed ; color by Gerardo Alba Rojas ; lettering by Angela Boyle
- Profiles in ignorance, how America's politicians got dumb and dumber, Andy Borowitz
- Unprepared, America in the time of coronavirus, compiled and edited by Jon Sternfeld ; introduction by Timothy Egan
- Front row at the Trump show, Jonathan Karl
- Flirting with danger, the mysterious life of Marguerite Harrison, socialite spy, Janet Wallach
- Katrina, a history, 1915-2015, Andy Horowitz
- The president and the freedom fighter, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to save America's soul, Brian Kilmeade
- A very English scandal, sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament, John Preston
- The Netanyahu years, Ben Caspit ; translated by Ora Cummings
- The Nazi menace, Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the road to war, Benjamin Carter Hett
- The first primary, New Hampshire's outsize role in presidential nominations, David W. Moore and Andrew E. Smith