1. Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka’wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema by Brad Evans (editor) and Aaron Glass (editor) (University of Washington Press)
2. Limber by Angela Pelster (Sarabande Books)
3. Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
4. Madam: A Novel of New Orleans by Cari Lynn and Kellie Martin (Plume)
5. American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light by Iain Sinclair (Faber & Faber )
6. The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb by Adrienne Brown (Mother Tongue)
7. Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana DasGupta (Penguin)
8. The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
9. Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West by Judith Nies (Nation Books)
10. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark (Ecco)
