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

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

Robert P. Jones

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

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

Jonathan Blitzer

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

Clint Smith

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

Tim Alberta

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

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

David Zucchino

Magdalena: River of Dreams

Wade Davis

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

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

Ben Goldfarb

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

Vincent Bevins

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

Sarah Schulman

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

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

Christina Lamb

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

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

Derf Backderf

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

David Philipps

Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty

Jack Kelly

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

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli

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

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

Kate Bowler

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

Chris Lockhart; Daniel Mulilo Chama

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

Will Jawando

Things I Have Withheld

Kei Miller

I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

Rachel Nuwer

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

Matthew F. Delmont

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

Shayla Lawson

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

Pam Fessler

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

Jeff Chang

The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

Sasha Bonét

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham-Dixon

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

Nina Willner

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Helen Garner

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

Julia Ioffe

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

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

Jeff Chang

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Howard W. French

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Scott Anderson

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

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

Brian Goldstone

Vagabond

Tim Curry

Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland

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

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

Malcolm Before X

Patrick Parr

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

Charan Ranganath

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Nicola Twilley

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Sue Prideaux

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

Shefali Luthra

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny; Алексей Навальный

Selected Amazon Reviews (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Kevin Killian; Dodie Bellamy; Wayne Koestenbaum

The Showman

Simon Shuster

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

Kevin Baker

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Hannah Pick-Goslar; Dina Kraft

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

Katja Hoyer

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

Scott Shane

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

Nikhil Krishnan

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

Paul Kix

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

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

Jeff Goodell

Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)

Alex Pappademas; Joan LeMay

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

Jonathan Healey

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

Héctor Tobar

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

Patricia Evangelista

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench; Brendan O'Hea

Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

Robert Hardman

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Isaac Butler

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

Jonathan Freedland

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

Laura Coates

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Simu Liu

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

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

Beverly Gage

Finding Me

Viola Davis

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

Elie Mystal

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

Jamie Raskin

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

Chris Lockhart; Daniel Mulilo Chama

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

Harvey Fierstein

The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

John Gleeson

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects

Jonathan Balcombe

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

Stephen Walker

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Kyla Schuller; Brittney Cooper

A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou

Seth Kantner

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

Michelle Nijhuis

It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness

Seth Wickersham

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Michela Wrong

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Kai Bird

Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours

Sarah Sentilles

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall; Hugo Martínez

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

Harry Cliff

Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Serhii Plokhy

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

Kathryn Kolbert; Julie F. Kay

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

Brittany K. Barnett

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

Laura Bates

When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship

Martha Teichner

JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956

Fredrik Logevall

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

Jonathan Alter

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

Ariana Neumann

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Rick Perlstein

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

Jerald Walker

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses

M.G. Sheftall

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Howard W. French

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal―and How to Set Them Right

Adam Harris

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Winfred Rembert; Erin I. Kelly; Bryan Stevenson

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

Åsne Seierstad

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

Dan Nadel

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour

A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

Rachel Louise Martin

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Carl Zimmer

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson; Dave Gonzales; Gavin Edwards

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

Alia Trabucco Zerán; Sophie Hughes

The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

Simon Parkin

King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

Daniel de Visé

Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne; Tamara Payne

I Am a Girl from Africa

Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

Arundhati Roy

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Reed Hastings; Erin Meyer

The American War in Afghanistan: A History

Carter Malkasian

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

Ian Johnson

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

Sebastian Smee

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg

Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

Thomas Insel

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

Julissa Arce

Rough Sleepers

Tracy Kidder

Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

Chuck Palahniuk

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

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