- Mess, one man's struggle to clean up his house and his act, Barry Yourgrau
- High-risers, Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen
- ER nurses, true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes, James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, with Chris Mooney
- Intelligent love, the story of Clara Park, her autistic daughter, and the myth of the refrigerator mother, Marga Vicedo
- Dear Scarlet, the story of my postpartum depression, Teresa Wong
- Outpost, a journey to the wild ends of the earth, Dan Richards
- By honor bound, two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage, Tom Norris and Mike Thornton, with Dick Couch ; with a forward by Senator Bob Kerrey
- Hot lights, cold steel, life, death, and sleepless nights in a surgeon's first years, Michael J. Collins
- To be a friend is fatal, the fight to save the Iraqis America left behind, Kirk W. Johnson
- Parwana, recipes and stories from an Afghan kitchen, Durkhanai Ayubi ; recipes by Farida Ayubi ; with assistance from Fatema Ayubi
- Beauty in the broken places, a memoir of love, faith, and resilience, Allison Pataki ; foreword by Lee Woodruff
- Let's pretend this never happened, (a mostly true memoir), Jenny Lawson
- The great stain, witnessing American slavery, Noel Rae
- Against all odds, a miracle of Holocaust survival, Edith Lucas Pagelson
- No, you shut up, speaking truth to power and reclaiming America, Symone D. Sanders
- The Nazis knew my name, a remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz, Magda Hellinger and Maya Lee ; with David Brewster
- The reaper, autobiography of one of the deadliest special ops snipers, Nicholas Irving with Gary Brozek
- The fighters, Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, C.J. Chivers
- Mayhem, Sigrid Rausing
- Hospice voices, lessons for living at the end of life, Eric Lindner
- Code talker, Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila
- The rumi prescription, how an ancient mystic poet changed my modern manic life, Melody Moezzi
- The argonauts, Maggie Nelson
- Abandoned in hell, the fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate, Capt. William Albracht (Ret.) and Capt. Marvin J. Wolf (Ret.)
- Madness, a bipolar life, Marya Hornbacher
- Unbelievable, my front-row seat to the craziest campaign in American history, Katy Tur
- A place outside the law, forgotten voices from Guantánamo, Peter Jan Honigsberg
- Dirt, adventures in Lyon as a chef in training, father, and sleuth looking for the secret of French cooking, Bill Buford
- Guts, Raina Telgemeier ; with color by Braden Lamb
- The best we could do, an illustrated memoir, Thi Bui
- Because we are bad, OCD and a girl lost in thought, Lily Bailey
- It's my country too, women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan, edited by Jerri Bell & Tracy Crow ; foreword by Kayla Williams
- God's hotel, a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine, Victoria Sweet
- Inferno, a doctor's ebola story, Steven Hatch, M.D
- Alpha one sixteen, a combat infantryman's year in Vietnam, Peter Clark
- The nine lives of Pakistan, dispatches from a precarious state, Declan Walsh
- Crisis on the border, an eyewitness account of illegal aliens, violent crime, and cartels, Matt C. Pinsker
- Unknown valor, a story of family, courage, and sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima, Martha MacCallum with Ronald J. Drez
- The long road home, the aftermath of the Second World War, Ben Shephard
- One doctor, close calls, cold cases, and the mysteries of medicine, Brendan Reilly
- Aging our way, lessons for living from 85 and beyond, Meika Loe
- The dogs are eating them now, our war in Afghanistan, Graeme Smith
- A narrative of a Revolutionary soldier, some of the adventures, dangers, and sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin, with an introduction by Thomas Fleming
- 999, The extraordinary young women of the first official transport to Auschwitz, Heather Dune Macadam
- In pain, a bioethicist's personal struggle with opioids, Travis Rieder
- World War I and America, told by the Americans who lived it, A. Scott Berg, editor
- Lucky dog, how being a veterinarian saved my life, Dr. Sarah Boston
- Orchard House, How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow, Tara Austen Weaver
- You will get through this night, Daniel Howell
- The best of me, David Sedaris