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

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

Zachary D. Carter

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

Ben Goldfarb

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Ian W. Toll

Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

Yaroslav Trofimov

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future

Ian Johnson

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

Robert P. Jones

Magdalena: River of Dreams

Wade Davis

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

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

Cat Bohannon

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

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

Apple: The First 50 Years

David Pogue

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

David F. Walker; Marcus Kwame Anderson

The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Nick Lloyd

Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience

Eli Saslow

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

Stephen Walker

Coming Home

Brittney Griner; Michelle Burford

Vaxxers

Sarah Gilbert; Catherine Green

DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution (American Music Series)

Lance Scott Walker

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Jennifer Vanderbes

Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

Kenneth Catania

Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong

Ricky Riccardi

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

Aziz Abu Sarah; Maoz Inon

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Sarah Aziza

America, América: A New History of the New World

Greg Grandin

Last Rites

Ozzy Osbourne

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

Rebecca Romney

Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness

Adam Weymouth

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

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

John U. Bacon

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television

Todd Purdum

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

Mariah Blake

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

1861: The Lost Peace

Jay Winik

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat

Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA

Jesse Katz

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny; Алексей Навальный

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

Cher - The Memoir (The Cher Memoir, #1)

Cher

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew M. Stauffer

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

Tricia Romano

The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022

Peter Schjeldahl; Steve Martin; Jarrett Earnest

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

Brad Gooch

The Showman

Simon Shuster

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

Chantha Nguon

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Jennifer Vanderbes

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960

Nikhil Krishnan

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench; Brendan O'Hea

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

James Holland

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

Robert P. Jones

Making It So

Patrick Stewart

Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

Katja Hoyer

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

Ben Goldfarb

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Fuchsia Dunlop

Landlines

Raynor Winn

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Laurie Zaleski

Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka

Chris Lockhart; Daniel Mulilo Chama

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Walter Russell Mead

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog; Michael Hofmann

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

Matthew F. Delmont

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

Elena Conis

Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

Thomas Insel

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker; Susan Glasser

The Letters of Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn; Michael Nott; August Kleinzahler; Clive Wilmer

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith

Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes

Barnaby Phillips

The Essential Kerner Commission Report

Jelani Cobb; Matthew Guariglia

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

Orville Vernon Burton; Armand Derfner

A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey

Jonathan Meiburg

Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

Mansoor Adayfi

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom

Kathryn Kolbert; Julie F. Kay

Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

Lizzie Johnson

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

Katie Engelhart

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Kai Bird

Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes

Albert Samaha

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times

David S. Reynolds

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

This Is All I Got

Lauren Sandler

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

David Allen Sibley

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Heather Cox Richardson

Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong

Ricky Riccardi

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Jessica Goudeau

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Hermione Lee

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

Linda Sarsour; Harry Belafonte

The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

José Esteban Muñoz; Joshua Chambers-Letson; Tavia Nyong'o

Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

Oliver Craske

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays)

Jerald Walker

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil; Fumi Nakamura

Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

Molly McCully Brown

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space In Between

Richard Mabey

An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I

Chris Dubbs; Judy Woodruff

Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind

Jason Zengerle

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind

Simon Winchester

Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?

Jenny Diski

Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living

Catie Marron

Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

Sarah Ruhl

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Elisa Gabbert

Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises

Katie Benner; Erica L. Green

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

Natalie Livingstone

The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus

Lucy Ward

Time Zone J

Julie Doucet

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Sophie Gilbert

The Wild Silence: A Memoir

Raynor Winn

To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq

Robert Draper

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

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

Pam Fessler

Letters to My White Male Friends

Dax-Devlon Ross

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian

Robert D. Kaplan

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

This Is All I Got

Lauren Sandler

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

Aziz Abu Sarah; Maoz Inon

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

Alexa Hagerty

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

Deborah Tuerkheimer

Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Neil Shubin

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Adrian Goldsworthy

Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

Joby Warrick

In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

Charles Barber

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