- Music, the definitive visual history
- Smithsonian American women, remarkable objects and stories of strength, ingenuity, and vision from the National Collection, foreword by Jill Lepore ; introduction by Michelle Delaney ; edited by Victoria Pope and Christine Schrum ; Smithsonian Editorial Committe: Nancy Bercaw, Michelle Delaney, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, Matthew Shindell, and Margaret Weitekamp
- Human body!, contributors, Anna Claybourne, John Farndon, John Friend, Nicola Temple ; illustrator, Arran Lewis ; additional illustrations, Michael Parkin, Maltings Partnership
- What's the buzz?, the secret lives of bees, Margery Facklam
- Thread of life, the Smithsonian looks at evolution, by Roger Lewin
- The Vietnam War, the definitive illustrated history
- Presidents, written by James G. Barber in association with the Smithsonian
- S is for Smithsonian, America's museum alphabet, written by Marie and Roland Smith ; illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
- Game face, what does a woman athlete look like?, created and developed by Jane Gottesman ; edited by Geoffrey Biddle ; foreword by Penny Marshall
- Elvis 1956, photographs by Alfred Wertheimer ; introduction by Chris Murray ; essays by E. Warren Perry, Jr. and Amy Henderson
- Aircraft, the definitive visual history
- The Smithsonian book of air & space trivia, Amy Pastan
- Movements, motions, moments, photographs of religion and spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, project coordinator: Douglas Remley
- The rock & gem book, ...and other treasures of the natural world, written by Dan Green
- Design, the definitive visual guide, editors, Anna Fischel, Sammy Kennedy, Stuart Nelson ; writers, Alexandra Black, R.G. Grant, Ann Kay, Philip Wilkinson, Iain Zaczek