- Bourbon leader, Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party, Horace Samuel Merrill ; edited by Oscar Handlin
- Big enough to be inconsistent, Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race, George M. Fredrickson
- Man, moment, machine, produced by Edelman Productions for the History Channel ; producer/director, Michael McInerney
- The world as it is, a memoir of the Obama White House, Ben Rhodes
- Republic of spin, an inside history of the American presidency, David Greenberg
- Thomas Jefferson, the art of power, Jon Meacham
- An unfinished life, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Robert Dallek
- Eisenhower, soldier and president, Stephen E. Ambrose
- William McKinley, Kevin Phillips
- Andrew Johnson, Annette Gordon-Reed
- Fear, Trump in the White House, Bob Woodward
- Woodrow Wilson, H.W. Brands
- Sworn on the altar of God, a religious biography of Thomas Jefferson, Edwin S. Gaustad
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way, the America Lincoln knew, photography by Robert Shaw ; narrative by Michael Burlingame
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, a political life, Robert Dallek
- Differ we must, how Lincoln succeeded in a divided America, Steve Inskeep
- Giants, the parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln, John Stauffer
- The collected works of Abraham Lincoln, the Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois ; Roy P. Basler, editor ; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, assistant editors
- Theodore Roosevelt in the field :, Michael R. Canfield
- Dasher, the roots and the rising of Jimmy Carter, James Wooten
- Encyclopedia of the American presidency, editors, Leonard W. Levy, Louis Fisher
- George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, James Thomas Flexner
- Founding father, rediscovering George Washington, by Richard Brookhiser
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, a rendezvous with destiny, by Frank Freidel
- The impossible presidency, the rise and fall of America's highest office, Jeremi Suri
- Indomitable will, LBJ in the presidency, Mark K. Updegrove
- The ordeal of Woodrow Wilson, by Herbert Hoover
- Assassinations, threats, and the American presidency, from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama, Ronald L. Feinman
- The man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant in war and peace, H.W. Brands
- Theodore Roosevelt, a life, Nathan Miller
- James Monroe, Gary Hart
- His very best, Jimmy Carter, a life, Jonathan Alter
- Harry S. Truman, the coming of the Cold War, Nicole L. Anslover
- Grant, Ron Chernow
- FDR, into the storm, 1937-1940, a history, Kenneth S. Davis
- Herbert Hoover in the White House, the ordeal of the presidency, Charles Rappleye
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Tom Wicker
- Nixon and Kissinger, partners in power, Robert Dallek
- Harry S. Truman, by Margaret Truman
- Plain speaking;, an oral biography of Harry S. Truman
- The life of Andrew Jackson, Robert V. Remini
- Rising star, the making of Barack Obama, David J. Garrow
- Off the record, the private papers of Harry S. Truman, edited by Robert H. Ferrell
- John F. Kennedy, Alan Brinkley
- The naturalist, Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history, Darrin Lunde
- Thomas Jefferson,, an intimate history, [by] Fawn M. Brodie
- Theodore Roosevelt and the art of American power, an American for all time, William R. Nester
- Lincoln, an illustrated biography, by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt ; foreword by David Herbert Donald ; contributing writer, Daniel Terris
- The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles W. Calhoun
- The rise of Andrew Jackson, myth, manipulation, and the making of modern politics, David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler