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

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

John Garth

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

Matthew F. Delmont

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

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

The Showman

Simon Shuster

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

Jonathan Blitzer

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

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

Jeff Goodell

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Ty Seidule

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

Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Amy Wallace

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

Vincent Bevins

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi; Keisha N. Blain

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

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

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

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

Nick Lloyd

What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death

Tallu Quinn

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Rachel E. Gross

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

Alexa Hagerty

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

Emma Dabiri

Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon

Monte Burke

Matriarch: A Memoir

Tina Knowles

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

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

Elena Conis

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

Harry Cliff

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction

Zoë Bossiere; Dinty W. Moore

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

Ricky Riccardi

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

Jeff Chang

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

Trauma Plot: A Life

Jamie Hood

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, #2)

Rick Atkinson

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

Pamela Smith Hill

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025

Jelani Cobb

Vagabond

Tim Curry

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood

Nina Willner

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

Carla Kaplan

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat

Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945

Mike Wallace

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

Gardiner Harris

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

Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Amy Wallace

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Shefali Luthra

Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Carvell Wallace

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

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

Hampton Sides

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

Adam Shatz

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

Chantha Nguon

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

Malcolm Before X

Patrick Parr

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

Cher

Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Coming Home

Brittney Griner; Michelle Burford

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

Caleb Carr

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew M. Stauffer

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson

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

Julia Lee

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Sally Adee

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

Robert P. Jones

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

Jonathan Healey

A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

Paul Caruana Galizia

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

Héctor Tobar

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

Siddharth Kara

Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

Youssef Daoudi; Adrian Matejka

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

John F. Szwed

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson; Dave Gonzales; Gavin Edwards

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

C.W. Goodyear

Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History

Benjamin Balint

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

Jamie Raskin

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

Lance Scott Walker

Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth

Clyde W. Ford

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog; Michael Hofmann

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Ben Macintyre

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

Sally Hayden

Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay

Lars Horn

Landlines

Raynor Winn

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Michael Schur

Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954

David Dawson; Martin Gayford

You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

Maayaa Abau Al-Ohayyaat

War Diary

Yevgenia Belorusets; Greg Nissan

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

George Monbiot

Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

Keith O'Brien

The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story

Kermit Roosevelt III

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs

David Philipps

You Got Anything Stronger?

Gabrielle Union; Kevin Carr O'Leary

The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing

Denis Mukwege

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

Mary Gauthier

Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution

John Archibald

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Kyla Schuller; Brittney Cooper

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

Peter L. Bergen

Walk in My Combat Boots

James Patterson; Matt Eversmann; Chris Mooney

The Library: A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree; Arthur der Weduwen

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Yusef Salaam

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

Farah Jasmine Griffin

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

Jorge L. Contreras

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

Joshua D. Rothman

A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

John Matteson

Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Open Media)

Tim Wise

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker

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

A.J. Baime

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

Matthew Van Meter

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

Andy Greene

Hadley Freeman House Of Glass-The Story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

Hadley Freeman

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

Ariana Neumann

The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

John Mullan

Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream

Mychal Denzel Smith

Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Craig Thompson

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

Christina Lamb

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

Kenneth Catania

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas

Roberto Lovato

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

Neil Shubin

The Afghans: Three Lives through War, Love, and Revolt

Åsne Seierstad

The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

Dorothy Roberts

African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

David Hackett Fischer

Thomas More: A Life

Joanne Paul

Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank

Eric Orner

Poet Warrior

Joy Harjo

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

Richard Mabey

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

Tim Alberta

Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story

Mazie K. Hirono

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Stephen Budiansky

The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar

Peter Stothard

Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution

Roxana Jullapat

The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

Michelle Adams

Real Estate: A Living Autobiography

Deborah Levy

Here, Right Matters: An American Story

Alexander S. Vindman

Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

Shaun King

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

Michaeleen Doucleff

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

Walk in My Combat Boots

James Patterson; Matt Eversmann; Chris Mooney

Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History

Yasmeen Abutaleb; Damian Paletta

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

John P. Avlon

A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943

John Richardson

Solito

Javier Zamora

Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South

Rick Bragg

In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

Niall Williams; Christine Breen

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Michio Kaku

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

Christina Lamb

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"

James Lapine

We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

Justin Fenton

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