Charles King Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Doubleday

Lucasta Miller L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron” Knopf

George Packer Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Knopf