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

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

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

Peter Baker; Susan Glasser

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock; The Washington Post

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice

Emma Dabiri

The Showman

Simon Shuster

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

Cat Bohannon

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

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Maria Ressa; Amal Clooney

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

David Zucchino

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

Jeff Goodell

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

Merlin Sheldrake

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

Ben Goldfarb

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 Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

David F. Walker; Marcus Kwame Anderson

Coming Home

Brittney Griner; Michelle Burford

Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting

Mary Gauthier

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Rachel E. Gross

The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History

Andy Greene

Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Charles Person; Richard Rooker

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Eric Berger

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

Matthew F. Delmont

Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

Matthew Van Meter

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

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

Sally Hayden

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America

Paul Kix

The Land and Its People

David Sedaris

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

Kathryn Kolbert; Julie F. Kay

Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland

Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President

E. Jean Carroll

Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age

Joy Harjo

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Sarah Aziza

Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

James Romm

Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America – A Powerful Story from Counterculture to Hollywood Legend

Jeff Chang

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

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

Mariah Blake

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

Zaakir Tameez

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

Brian Goldstone

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

1861: The Lost Peace

Jay Winik

Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable

Will Potter

Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays

Eric Foner

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

Gardiner Harris

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

Kevin Fedarko

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

Nick Lloyd

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

Brad Gooch

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Kevin Baker

The Lucky Ones

Zara Chowdhary

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

Eliot Stein

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

Hampton Sides

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

Yaroslav Trofimov

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

David Rooney

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

Coming Home

Brittney Griner; Michelle Burford

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

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

Alexa Hagerty

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

Cat Bohannon

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

Tahir Hamut Izgil; Joshua L. Freeman

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

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

Meg Kissinger

Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

Katja Hoyer

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

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

Scott Shane

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

James Holland

Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

Katie Barnes

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Kate Zernike

Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954

David Dawson; Martin Gayford

The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation

Scott Carney; Jason Miklian

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Cody Keenan

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels; Toluse Olorunnipa

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation

Hannah Gadsby

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

Nyle DiMarco; Robert Siebert

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

James M. Scott

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos

The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

Max Hastings

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Linda Villarosa

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives

Andre Henry

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

Ben Rawlence

Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II

Bruce Henderson; Gerald Yamada

Six California Kitchens: A Collection of Recipes, Stories, and Cooking Lessons from a Pioneer of California Cuisine

Sally Schmitt; Cindy Pawlcyn; Thomas Keller; Troyce Hoffman

How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe

Harry Cliff

The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth

Kristin Henning

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Kate Masur

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Suleika Jaouad

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

Jarrett Adams

Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Kate Clifford Larson

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

Sesali Bowen

Francis Bacon: Revelations

Mark Stevens; Annalyn Swan

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

Stephen Walker

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

Scott Ellsworth

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

Tracy K. Smith; John Freeman

Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting

Mary Gauthier

Balanchine's Apprentice: From Hollywood to New York and Back

John Clifford

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Tim Marshall

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Christina Lamb

Magdalena: River of Dreams

Wade Davis

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Annie Finch

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Jerry Mitchell

Mozart: The Reign of Love

Jan Swafford

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

Jonathan Alter

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

Ricky Riccardi

Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

Matthew Van Meter

The Dynasty

Jeff Benedict

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne; Tamara Payne

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

Catherine Belton

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

Martin J. Sherwin

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

Adam Kirsch

Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

Orville Vernon Burton; Armand Derfner

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

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

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

Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter

Ada Ferrer

Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

Douglas Brinkley

The Letters of Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn; Michael Nott; August Kleinzahler; Clive Wilmer

Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

Miles Harvey

Apple: The First 50 Years

David Pogue

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century

Melanie McDonagh

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

Chris Lockhart; Daniel Mulilo Chama

Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey

James Rebanks

Nonbinary: Personal essays exploring gender outside the binary and carving out space.

Genesis P-Orridge

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Rashid Khalidi

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench; Brendan O'Hea

History Matters

David McCullough; Dorie McCullough Lawson

The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

Thomas Frank

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman; Ann Patchett; Brit Bennett; Steven Okazaki; David Handler; Geraldine Brooks; Yaa Gyasi; Sergio de la Pava; Dave Eggers; Timothy Egan; Li Yiyun; Meg Wolitzer; Héctor Tobar; Aleksandar Hemon; Elizabeth Strout; Rabih Alameddine; Moriel Rothman-Zecher; Jonathan Lethem; Salman Rushdie; Lauren Groff; Jennifer Egan; Scott Turow; Morgan Parker; Victor LaValle; Michael Cunningham; Neil Gaiman; Jesmyn Ward; George Saunders; Marlon James; William Finnegan; Anthony Doerr; C.J. Anders; Brenda J. Child; Andrew Sean Greer; Louise Erdrich; Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; David Cole; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Jacqueline Woodson

Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

Eric Nusbaum

107 Days

Kamala Harris

The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

David J. Dennis Jr.

The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation

Lynne Cheney

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

Kao Kalia Yang

This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

John Darnielle; John Keogh

To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945

John C. McManus

The Wok: Recipes and Techniques

J. Kenji López-Alt

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Wes Moore; Erica L. Green

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