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

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

Yaroslav Trofimov

Solito

Javier Zamora

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

Jonathan Blitzer

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock; The Washington Post

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

Ben Goldfarb

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

Zachary D. Carter

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

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

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

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

Clint Smith

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

Sarah Schulman

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

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

Ian W. Toll

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

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

Emma Dabiri

Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland

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

Sally Hayden

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Simu Liu

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

Jeff Chang

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

Elie Mystal

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

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

Nina Willner

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

Will Potter

Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

Liz Hauck

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

Kenneth Catania

We're Better Than This

Elijah Cummings

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

Kathryn Kolbert; Julie F. Kay

In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

Tom Vitale

Apple: The First 50 Years

David Pogue

Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

Tim Bouverie

Capitalism: A Global History

Sven Beckert

Star of the Show: My Life on Stage

Dolly Parton

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

Zaakir Tameez

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

Howard W. French

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

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

Jeff Chang

Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

Jonathan C. Slaght

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

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

Nina Willner

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

Rebecca Romney

Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Amanda Vaill

Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness

Adam Weymouth

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s

Jason Burke

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk – A New York Times Bestselling Memoir of the Riot Grrrl Movement

Kathleen Hanna

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

Kevin Baker

Malcolm Before X

Patrick Parr

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

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

Tricia Romano

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

Nick Lloyd

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew M. Stauffer

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

American Mother

Colum McCann; Diane Foley

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

Caleb Carr

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

Jonathan Blitzer

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

Paul M.M. Cooper

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music

Henry Threadgill; Brent Hayes Edwards

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

Kate Zernike

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Peter Brown

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

Robert P. Jones

American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

Neil King Jr.

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Harrison Scott Key

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

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

Stuart A. Reid

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Gary J. Bass

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle

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

Ben Goldfarb

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson

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

Siddharth Kara

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

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

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

Lyndall Gordon

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

Åsne Seierstad

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

Clyde W. Ford

The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

Max Hastings

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

Michael Frank; Maira Kalman

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

Emmanuel Carrère; John Lambert

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

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

Jim Harrison

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Jonathan M. Katz

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

Ben Macintyre

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

Playing with Myself

Randy Rainbow

Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

Corban Addison; John Grisham

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — an American Tragedy

Michael Dobbs

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

Joseph J. Ellis

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Bernardine Evaristo

The Library: A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree; Arthur der Weduwen

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

Carl Zimmer

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

Heather McGhee

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner

Unprotected: A Memoir

Billy Porter

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Mark Mazower

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams; Julie Armstrong; C. Tyrone Forehand; Mariame Kaba

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

Kate Bowler

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

Daniel E. Lieberman

Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race

Shanna H. Swan; Stacey Colino

Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

Richard Overy

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Hermione Lee

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Annie Finch

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

Courtney Maum

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

Michelle Bowdler

Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

Howard Bryant

150 Glimpses of the Beatles

Craig Brown

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

David Allen Sibley

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright

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

Pam Fessler

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

Robert Draper

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

Jonathan Daniel Wells

Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

Oliver Craske

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

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

David Zucchino

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

David Nasaw

God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

Alan Mikhail

Saying It Loud: 1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

Mark Whitaker

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink

Kory Stamper

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War

Deborah Cohen

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Edwin Frank

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

Ted Widmer

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

Monte Burke

The Lucky Ones

Zara Chowdhary

The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story

Victoria Belim

Judy Blume: A Life

Mark Oppenheimer

Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

Roman Year: A Memoir

André Aciman

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

The Triumph of Nancy Reagan

Karen Tumulty

The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects

Bee Wilson

Somewhere in the Unknown World

Kao Kalia Yang

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Stacey Abrams

You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

Maayaa Abau Al-Ohayyaat

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

Margaret Renkl

Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

Alan Paul

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

Ricky Riccardi

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

Charles Barber

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

Andrea Elliott

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

Jarrett Adams

History Matters

David McCullough; Dorie McCullough Lawson

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

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

John Garth

The Violence: My Family's Colombian War

Adriana E. Ramírez

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

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