- Goth, a history, Lol Tolhurst
- Archaeology, an introduction to the world's greatest sites, Dr. Eric H. Cline
- Presidential campaigns, documents decoded, Daniel M. Shea and Brian M. Harward
- Fire by night, finding God in the pages of the Old Testament, Melissa Florer-Bixler
- How to inhabit time, understanding the past, facing the future, living faithfully now, James K.A. Smith
- All of the Marvels, a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told, Douglas Wolk
- A child's introduction to jazz, the musicians, culture, and roots of the world's coolest music, Jabari Asim ; illustrated by Jerrard K. Polk
- Only what's necessary, Charles M. Schulz and the art of Peanuts, text, art direction, and design by Chip Kidd ; photography by Geoff Spear ; introduction by Jeff Kinney ; additional text by Jean Schulz, Karen Johnson, and Paige Braddock ; images courtesy of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
- The poem is you, 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them, Stephen Burt
- Shadow and evil in fairy tales, Marie-Louise von Franz
- Possessed by memory, the inward light of criticism, Harold Bloom
- Broadway musicals, show by show, by Stanley Green
- Catholic literary giants, a field guide to the Catholic literary landscape, Joseph Pearce
- The movie musical!, Jeanine Basinger
- The theater of war, what ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today, Bryan Doerries
- Who was Charles Schulz?, by Joan Holub ; illustrated by Tim Foley
- The church of baseball, the making of Bull Durham : home runs, bad calls, crazy fights, big swings, and a hit, Ron Shelton
- Vermeer, Pieter Roelofs, Gregor J.M. Weber ; Bart Cornelis, Bente Frissen, Sabine Pénot, Friederike Schütt, Christian Tico Seifert, Ariane Van Suchtelen, Majorie E. Wieseman ; foreword by Taco Dibbits, General Director, Rijksmuseum
- Searching for Ingmar Bergman, a C-Films (Deutschland) production co-produced by Mondex et Cie ; with support from FFA Filmforderungsanstalt [and others] ; a film by Margarethe Von Trotta ; co-director, Felix Moeller, Bettina Böhler ; written by Margarethe von Trotta, Felix Moeller ; producer, Benjamin Seikel, Stéphane Sorlat, Guy Amon ; produced by Konstanze Speidel
- The annotated Alice, Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass, by Lewis Carroll ; edited by Martin Gardner ; expanded and updated by Mark Burstein ; original illustrations by John Tenniel
- The DC comics encyclopedia, the definitive guide to the characters of the DC universe, text by Alan Cowsill, Alex Irvine, Steve Korte, Matt Manning, Stephen (Win) Wiacek, Sven Wilson ; additional text by Scott Beatty, Robert Greenberger, Phil Jiminez, Nick Jones, Dan Wallace
- Beatles '66, the revolutionary year, Steve Turner
- Mad enchantment, Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies, Ross King
- Mambo mucho mambo!, dance that crossed color lines, Dean Robbins ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
- Bob Dylan, all the songs : the story behind every track, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon
- The fantasy makers, Tolkien, Lewis, and MacDonald
- Well-read black girl, finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology, edited by Glory Edim
- Music is history, Questlove with Ben Greenman
- True story, what reality TV says about us, Danielle J. Lindemann
- Wild things, the joy of reading children's literature as an adult, Bruce Handy
- Jewish comedy, a serious history, Jeremy Dauber
- The geek feminist revolution, Kameron Hurley
- Classics of American literature, Arnold Weinstein
- The Nolan variations, the mysteries, marvels, and movies of Christopher Nolan, Tom Shone
- Music as a mirror of history, Professor Robert Greenberg
- Music is history, Questlove ; [with Ben Greenman]
- A history of western music, J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca
- Mister Rogers: it's you I like, produced by JoAnn Young, John Paulson ; directed by John Paulson ; written by JoAnn Young ; produced by Young Productions, John Paulson Productions ; the Fred Rogers Company
- The science of Middle-Earth, a new understanding of Tolkien and his world, illustrated by Arnaud Rafaelian ; edited by Roland Lehoucq, Loïc Mangin, and Jean-Sébastien Steyer ; translated by Tina Kover
- No crying in baseball, the inside story of A League of Their Own : big stars, dugout drama, and a home run for Hollywood, Erin Carlson
- The feud, Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the end of a beautiful friendship, Alex Beam
- Gothic, an illustrated history, Roger Luckhurst
- The life of crime, detecting the history of mysteries and their creators, Martin Edwards
- The year of Lear, Shakespeare in 1606, James Shapiro
- Luke Skywalker can't read, and other geeky truths, Ryan Britt
- The lost art of Scripture, rescuing the sacred texts, Karen Armstrong
- The great American songbook, 201 favorites you ought to know (& love), Steven Suskin ; foreword by John Pizzarelli
- How to read literature like a professor, a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines, Thomas C. Foster
- A little devil in America, notes in praise of Black performance, Hanif Abdurraqib
- Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson