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

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock; The Washington Post

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

Merlin Sheldrake

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

Ian Johnson

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

John Garth

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

Tim Alberta

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

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

Christina Lamb

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

Ben Goldfarb

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

Sarah Schulman

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

Matthew F. Delmont

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

Ian W. Toll

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

Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Amy Wallace

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

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

Clint Smith

Solito

Javier Zamora

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 Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

Aziz Abu Sarah; Maoz Inon

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

Emma Dabiri

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American

Laura Gao

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Michio Kaku

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

Alexa Hagerty

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

Craig Nelson

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

Jerald Walker

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

Nina Willner

Landlines

Raynor Winn

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

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

Matthew F. Delmont

Matriarch: A Memoir

Tina Knowles

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

Kate Bowler

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

Cat Bohannon

Coming Home

Brittney Griner; Michelle Burford

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

Sudhir Hazareesingh

The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

Richard Bell

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

Zaakir Tameez

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Sarah Aziza

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

Nathan Kernan

Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea

Marcus Rediker

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

Michelle Adams

Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

Paul McCartney; Ted Widmer

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television

Todd Purdum

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

Jeff Chang

The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California's Public Lands

Josh Jackson

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

Julia Ioffe

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy

Tre Johnson

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli

Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run

Peter Ames Carlin

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew M. Stauffer

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

Chantha Nguon

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland

Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny; Алексей Навальный

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses

M.G. Sheftall

Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

Sebastian Smee

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

Henry Hemming

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

Brad Gooch

The Showman

Simon Shuster

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

Tricia Romano

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

Oksana Masters; Cassidy Randall

Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

Victor Luckerson

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

Héctor Tobar

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

Youssef Daoudi; Adrian Matejka

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

Jennifer Vanderbes

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

Fergus M. Bordewich

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Fuchsia Dunlop

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

Neil King Jr.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Martha C. Nussbaum

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

Jeff Goodell

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

Alexa Hagerty

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

Jim Harrison

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

Michael Schur

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Andrea Wulf

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Jacob Mchangama

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Isaac Butler

Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

Chris Herring

My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole

Will Jawando

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

James M. Scott

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

Lance Scott Walker

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

Ben Macintyre

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Molly Shannon; Sean Wilsey

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance―The Inside Story of How the Endurance Was Found and a Tale of Survival Against the Odds in the Most Hostile Sea on Earth

Mensun Bound

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

David J. Dennis Jr.

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell

Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

Craig Foster; Ross Frylinck

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present

Nick Bryant

Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

Jackie Higgins

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

Stephen Walker

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Mark Mazower

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Dan Saladino

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott

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

Ty Seidule

The Lyrics

Paul McCartney; Paul Muldoon

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

Gabriel Winant

Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty

Jack Kelly

George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father

David O. Stewart

Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Kate Clifford Larson

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

Joseph J. Ellis

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

Mansoor Adayfi

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

Adrian Tomine

Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book

Courtney Maum

Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey

James Rebanks

The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

Giles Tremlett

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Alice Walker; Valerie Boyd

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

William G. Thomas

Intimations

Zadie Smith

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

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

Jessica Goudeau

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Candacy A. Taylor

Fathoms: The World in the Whale

Rebecca Giggs

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

Jorge L. Contreras

Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island

Mike Pitts

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

Jack Emerson Davis

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Andrew Nagorski

George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father

David O. Stewart

The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

Erika Howsare

Spilt Milk: Memoirs

Courtney Zoffness

Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball

Luke Epplin

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

Tricia Romano

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

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Martha S. Jones

Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs

Antony Beevor

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle

Sarah Krasnostein

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

Into the Weeds

Lydia Davis

America Through Foreign Eyes

Jorge G Castaneda

The Essential Kerner Commission Report

Jelani Cobb; Matthew Guariglia

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

Linda Villarosa

The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

Simon Kuper

Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

Laurie Woolever

Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask

Jon Pessah

Vaxxers

Sarah Gilbert; Catherine Green

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

Mary Gauthier

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

Kao Kalia Yang

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

Heather McGhee

Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir

Kinari Webb

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson

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