The books that are changing how readers, critics, and scholars think

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

Maria Ressa; Amal Clooney

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962

Martin J. Sherwin

Solito

Javier Zamora

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Amy Wallace

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth

John Garth

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

The Uncool: a Memoir

Cameron Crowe

Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess

Ben Mezrich

The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History

Thomas W. Laqueur

Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

View from the East Wing: A Memoir

Jill Biden

The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

Eric Jay Dolin

1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World

Liaquat Ahamed

The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

The Land and Its People

David Sedaris

Trudeau & Doonesbury

Joshua Kendall

Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe

Gail Crowther

Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

Antonia Senior

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Mary Beard

On Witness and Respair

Jesmyn Ward

The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War

James Verini

The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA

Jorge L. Contreras

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Charles Person; Richard Rooker

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

Laura Coates

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction

Zoë Bossiere; Dinty W. Moore

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America's Soul

Matthew F. Delmont

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

Aziz Abu Sarah; Maoz Inon

V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

Craig Nelson

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis

Tracy K. Smith; John Freeman

Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice

Pam Fessler

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System

Jarrett Adams

Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

Niall Williams; Christine Breen

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

Tim Bouverie

Joyride: A Memoir

Susan Orlean

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Brian Goldstone

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

Garrett M. Graff

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

Adam Becker

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

John Cassidy

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Mariah Blake

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

John U. Bacon

Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books

Pamela Smith Hill

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

Carla Kaplan

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

Ingrained: An Uplifting Memoir about Woodworking and Craftsmanship

Callum Robinson

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

Chantha Nguon

The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022

Peter Schjeldahl; Steve Martin; Jarrett Earnest

Malcolm Before X

Patrick Parr

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Tricia Romano

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew M. Stauffer

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

William Dalrymple

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

Caleb Carr

The Lucky Ones

Zara Chowdhary

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Martha C. Nussbaum

The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

Rachel L. Swarns

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland

Scott Shane

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil; Joshua L. Freeman

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future

Robert P. Jones

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

George Monbiot

Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life

James Curtis

My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Ben Rawlence

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

Elena Conis

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

Jeff Pearlman

Sandy Hook

Elizabeth Williamson

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Jamie Raskin

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life

Nyle DiMarco; Robert Siebert

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Isaac Butler

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece

Kevin Birmingham

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Daniel James Brown

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

Eliot Higgins

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

Briona Simone Jones; Sangodare Akinwale; M. Jacqui Alexander; Moya Bailey; Lucille Bogan; SDiane Bogus; Dionne Brand; Sharon Bridgforth; Charlene A. Carruthers; Cheryl Clarke; Michelle Cliff; Cathy J. Cohen; Anita Cornwell; Doris Diosa Davenport; Kai Davis; L. Joyce DeLaney; Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson; Demita Frazier; Jewelle Gomez; Angelina Weld Grimké; Alexis Pauline Gumbs; J.P. Howard; Akasha Gloria Hull; Terri Jewell; Janae Johnson; Barbara Jordan; Audre Lorde; Bettina L. Love; Dawn Lundy Martin; Catherine E. McKinley; Lisa C. Moore; Susana Morris; Pauli Murray; Monica Arac de Nyeko; Pat Parker; Michelle Parkerson; Kate Rushin; Savannah Shange; Ann Allen Shockley; Barbara Smith; Beverly Smith; Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz; Kaila Story; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan; Pamela Sneed; Cheryl Boyce Taylor; Alexis De Veaux; Alice Walker; Arisa White

The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (Bestselling Historical Nonfiction)

Peter L. Bergen

Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing

Tris Dixon

The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice

Scott Ellsworth

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

Michael Imperioli; Steven R. Schirripa; Philip Lerman

Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

Liz Hauck

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

Koa Beck

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

Victoria Chang

Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

Craig Foster; Ross Frylinck

Cuba: An American History

Ada Ferrer

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction

Zoë Bossiere; Dinty W. Moore

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

Peter Baker; Susan Glasser

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Alice L. Baumgartner

Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times

David S. Reynolds

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Natalie Haynes

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

Shayla Lawson

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Lauren Redniss

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why

David Allen Sibley

Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

John Gierach

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Kelly Weinersmith; Zach Weinersmith

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Colette Shade

Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Rachel Cockerell

Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells

Michelle Duster

Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche

Momus

Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard

C.M. Kushins

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

Suzanne O'Sullivan

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

Three Roads Back

Robert D. Richardson Jr.; Megan Marshall

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

Christopher Cox

The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne

Chris Sweeney

The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

Jack Emerson Davis

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

Laura Coates

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul

A.J. Baime

Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

Tom Fitzgerald; Lorenzo Marquez

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Michaela Coel

My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

Clint Hill; Lisa McCubbin Hill

All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

Ruth Coker Burks; Kevin Carr O'Leary

Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

Rob Bell

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote

Eric Holder; Sam Koppelman

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot

Niloofar Rahmani; Adam Sikes

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson; Dave Gonzales; Gavin Edwards

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Bill Gates

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

David J. Chalmers

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber; David Wengrow

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Martha C. Nussbaum

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

Roger Shattuck; Jed Perl

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

Jean M. Twenge

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Adam Tooze

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm