- Goth, a history, Lol Tolhurst
- 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
- 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
- Archaeology, an introduction to the world's greatest sites, Dr. Eric H. Cline
- How to inhabit time, understanding the past, facing the future, living faithfully now, James K.A. Smith
- Why comics?, from underground to everywhere, Hillary Chute
- Sometimes you have to lie, the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy, Leslie Brody
- How great science fiction works, Gary K. Wolfe ; The Teaching Company ; producer, Maureen Tumulty ; director, Jonathan D. Leven, Kevin Barnhill
- Country music, Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan ; with a preface by Ken Burns ; picture research by Susanna Steisel, Susan Shumaker, Pam Tubridy Baucom, and Emily Mosher ; design by Maggie Hinders
- Shadow and evil in fairy tales, Marie-Louise von Franz
- The poem is you, 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them, Stephen Burt
- Catholic literary giants, a field guide to the Catholic literary landscape, Joseph Pearce
- Broadway musicals, show by show, by Stanley Green
- Possessed by memory, the inward light of criticism, Harold Bloom
- Wild things, the joy of reading children's literature as an adult, Bruce Handy
- The saddest words, William Faulkner's Civil War, Michael Gorra
- What is the story of the mummy?, by Sheila Keenan ; illustrated by Carlos Basabe
- The science of murder, the forensics of Agatha Christie, Carla Valentine
- The book of J, translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg ; interpreted by Harold Bloom
- Poetry in America, explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems, WGBH ; a production of Verse Video Education ; written and directed by Elisa New ; producer, Leah Reis-Dennis, Season 1
- The Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff
- Playing back the 80s, a decade of unstoppable hits, Jim Beviglia
- A history of the Bible, the story of the world's most influential book, John Barton
- Gothic, an illustrated history, Roger Luckhurst
- The feud, Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the end of a beautiful friendship, Alex Beam
- The life of crime, detecting the history of mysteries and their creators, Martin Edwards
- Luke Skywalker can't read, and other geeky truths, Ryan Britt
- The year of Lear, Shakespeare in 1606, James Shapiro
- I like to watch, arguing my way through the TV revolution, Emily Nussbaum
- The art of reading, Professor Timothy Spurgin
- Don't read poetry, a book about how to read poems, Stephanie Burt
- The lost art of Scripture, rescuing the sacred texts, Karen Armstrong
- A little devil in America, notes in praise of Black performance, Hanif Abdurraqib
- How to read literature like a professor, a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines, Thomas C. Foster
- The great American songbook, 201 favorites you ought to know (& love), Steven Suskin ; foreword by John Pizzarelli
- Goth, a history, Lol Tolhurst
- Word by word, the secret life of dictionaries, Kory Stamper
- Motown, the sound of young America, by Adam White ; with Barney Ales ; and a foreword by Andrew Loog Oldham
- Ten words to live by, delighting in and doing what God commands, Jen Wilkin
- Dangerous rhythms, jazz and the underworld, T. J. English
- The history of sketch comedy, a journey through the art and craft of humor, by Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key
- The hollow crown, Shakespeare on how leaders rise, rule, and fall, Eliot A. Cohen
- Music as a mirror of history, Professor Robert Greenberg
- Music is history, Questlove ; [with Ben Greenman]
- Music is history, Questlove with Ben Greenman
- Can't slow down, how 1984 became pop's blockbuster year, Michaelangelo Matos
- Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson